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23 year old deputy Austin Walsh
was killed Saturday by his own roomate,
-- fellow deputy, Andrew Lawson.
The deputy who fired the fatal shot
was joking around.
Lawson reportedly told investigators
he was handling his firearm, a 9mm semi-automatic pistol,
which he thought was unloaded.
Now a lot of people will tell you
‘Oh, Glocks have safeties. They have 3 different safeties.’
Well... they’re absolutely 100% correct.
Lawson and Walsh were inside the Palm Bay home they shared
playing the video game Call of Duty.
Real guns aren't the same as the ones in your video game.
But...
It's NOT the same.
I am your host, Dee Dos.
And next year will be the 200th anniversary
of the Monroe Doctrine.
The Americas have a set of interests distinct from those of Europe
and peculiarly their own.
Originally greeted as a harmless gesture of support
for the Latin American ruling classes
in their wars of independence from the Spanish
and Portuguese empires,
this policy eventually revealed itself as a blueprint
for US hemispheric dominance.
America!
Young giant of the west,
stands on a continent and clasps the cusp of an ocean in either hand.
Speak softly
but carry a big stick.
The United States has since used this informal geopolitical framework
to justify a staggering number of military interventions,
occupations,
assassinations,
and covert support for military coups,
the training and arming of paramilitary death squads,
the rise of cartels,
and countless other acts of political destabilization
carried out across Latin America and the Caribbean.
The legacy and ongoing reality of US imperialism
has served as a chief catalyst for the spread of left-wing populism in the region,
which in turn has provoked new cycles of imperialist intervention.
We have had some concerns about president Chavez.
We will be restoring aid to Honduras.
We're looking at the oil assets...
End this nightmare of poverty, hunger and death for your people.
Those regimes who have successfully insulated themselves from US meddling,
such as Cuba and Venezuela,
have generally done so
through a process of authoritarian political consolidation
and the development of powerful intelligence
and state security agencies.
Other politicians and political parties embrace left-wing populism
as an electoral strategy,
only to reveal themselves, upon assuming office,
as faithful acolytes of the neoliberal order.
Under all of these so-called leftist regimes,
It is common for those fighting the destruction of their communities
by ecologically-destructive extractive projects,
or struggling against the countless other daily injustices of capitalism,
to find their resistance conflated with the forces of right-wing reaction.
The unrest was sparked mid-April by social security reforms.
Ortega has tried to paint the opposition as a right-wing
regime change operation backed by the US.
This dynamic is currently playing out in Brazil,
where recent rioting and attacks on federal police
carried out by Bolsonaro supporters in Brasilia
has sparked comparisons
to the popular 2013 uprising against transit fare hikes.
Those involved in the illegal blockades last weekend
used terrorist tactics, and resembled block blocs
who became known in Brazil during the 2013 protests
and who tend to walk around hooded
promoting violent actions.
This intentionally over-simplified view of social conflict
serves to legitimize the repression of anarchists,
Indigenous land defenders,
and all other radical social movements who cannot or will not
be recuperated back into the structures of the state.
It also hands a valuable gift to populists on the right,
by pretending they possess a monopoly on dissent.
The people have to decide
if they want war
or they want peace.
In so-called Peru, anger over the state's hyper-partisan political establishment
recently erupted into a popular revolt
that has paralyzed the entire country.
Growing rage in the protests
against the new government
who overthrew the elected president.
Blocked roads,
train trips and flights suspended.
Chaos spreads through Peru.
Violent demonstrations have reached
13 of the country's 25 regions.
The spark for the uprising was the impeachment and arrest
of the country’s nominally left-wing President, Pedro Castillo,
and his replacement by his former Vice President, Dina Boluarte,
after the former attempted to dissolve congress.
Yet even before this latest political scandal,
the situation in the country was already volatile.
Castillo himself had been an unpopular figure,
with polls taken shortly before his ouster
putting his approval rating at only 29%.
He was widely seen as corrupt,
and earlier this year
his administration had been the target of massive protests
over a proposed hike in fuel prices.
Peru has been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic,
suffering the highest mortality rate in the world.
Once lauded as an economic miracle,
millions have slid back into poverty in recent years,
even as the price of many food staples has more than doubled.
The current uprising kicked off in Lima on December 7th,
and soon spread to the country's rural interior,
where people began barricading roads and highways.
Demands began circulating for President Boluarte to step down,
the dissolution of congress and the holding of new elections.
On December 9th, protesters in Lima attempted to storm congress,
but were pushed back by riot police, who filled the block with teargas.
That weekend, riots spread across the country.
Government buildings were attacked,
and at least one police station was put to the torch.
In Andahuaylas, Indigenous protesters kidnapped two police officers
and forced a prisoner exchange,
trading them for two of their detained friends.
Another crowd seized the local airport,
setting up burning barricades and torching a fuel depot,
as police fired teargas at them from helicopters.
During the clashes on Sunday,
two teenage boys were killed by police.
Over the coming days, the death toll rose to at least 23,
as police fired on crowds of protesters with live rounds.
I announce
the declaration of state of emergency
to peacefully recover
the control of domestic order.
On December 11th,
militants in Cusco barricaded the roads
leading to Las Bambas mine,
one of the largest copper mines in the world,
responsible for 2% of the global supply.
Reports indicated that highways were blocked in 13 of the country's 25 regions.
The country's new president,
Boluarte, has sought to demobilize the protests
by deploying the army,
and announcing plans for early elections.
So far, this has done little to quell the anger,
and the situation remains fluid.
Let us remember that great revolutionary projects
in the history of humanity
began with specific demands:
for more bread,
for more water,
for more work,
against corruption,
against hunger,
against the excess of working hours, etc,
unleashing uncontainable processes of liberation.
It is not simply a matter of certain corrupt politicians
and betting on others to be "more decent".
We do not want to elect new executionersand "democratic" masters.
We do not want to wash the face of the institutions,
nor demand "constitutional reforms" that alienate the popular struggle.
We bet on the real transformation of our environment.
We want them all to go,
and for WE, the self-organized people,
to be the ones to undertake the task of reconstruction
and social convergence.
Meanwhile in Greece,
early in the morning of December 5th,
police in Thessaloniki shot Kostas Fragoulis,
a 16 year old Roma teenager,
in the head,
for allegedly stealing twenty euros worth of petrol.
The shooting took place one day before the annual riots
marking the anniversary of the police murder of 15 year old anarchist,
Alexis Grigoropoulos.
This year's demonstrations were particularly intense,
especially in Thessaloniki,
where anarchists and Roma youth
joined forces to smash up shops and attack police
with a hail of molotovs.
Demonstrations continued for several days.
Streets were blocked with burning dumpsters,
and members of the Romani community
held protests outside a courthouse in Thessaloniki.
It wasn't the gas,
it wasn't the money,
the cops shot because he was Roma.
On December 13th, Kostas died from his injuries,
sparking renewed demonstrations
and clashes with police in cities across the country.
And finally,
solidarity actions have continued
for Italian anarchist Alfredo Cospito,
who has been on hunger strike since October 20th
to protest his indefinite detention under the brutal 41 bis regime.
Solidarity messages have poured in from comrades around the world,
demonstrations have been held outside Italian embassies
and clandestine attacks have spread to multiple cities in Italy,
as well as Germany, Chile, Bolivia, the US, and Greece.
At a court hearing on December 5th,
Alfredo and his co-accused, Anna Beniamino
read statements to supporters.
The judiciary of the Italian republic decided that I, too subversive,
should no longer have the chance to see the stars, freedom.
Given that I continued writing and collaborating with the anarchist press from prison,
it was decided to clamp my mouth forever
with the medieval gag 41 bis,
condemning me to an endless limbo awaiting death.
I will not stand for it and I will not surrender,
and will continue my hunger strike for the abolition of 41 bis
and life sentence without appeal until my last breath
to let the world know
about these two repressive abominations in this country.
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