Full Description
As we step into an era of rising fascism and normalized genocide, Confronting Counterinsurgency: Cop Cities and Democracy's Terrors is an invaluable contribution to the fightback.
Joy James brings together the voices of frontline activists, artists, and organizers from movements against militarism and state violence in the USA, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Palestine, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and within prison walls. The book includes accessible and revealing discussions of the role of institutions, universities and nonprofit organizations in the suppression of radical movements. It introduces and analyzes contemporary militarized policing projects like Cop City, ICE, and the School of the Americas, and links them to historical and contemporary settler colonialism and slavery.
Made as an offering of revolutionary love, Confronting Counterinsurgency will be a crucial tool for deepening and radicalizing our analysis and learning from each other's movements, in order to strengthen our resistance and unite to fight for a better world.
Contents
Preface
Introduction (Joy James)
PART I. Carceral Cities and Civil/Human Rights
1. Atlanta's Black Community Says "Stop Cop Cities!" (Rev. Keyanna Jones Moore, interview by Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report)
2. Resisting [Global] Cop Cities and the Militarization of Policing (Liliana, Joy James, Kalonji Jama Changa, interview by Chris Browne)
3. 1492: Indigenous Sovereignty, Black Self-Determination amid Repression (Mohamed Abdou, Ashanti Alston, interview by Kalonji Changa, Joy James)
PART II. Battling Colonialism
4. UN Special Committee on Decolonization: Puerto Rico (Benjamin Ramos Rosado)
5. Oxford Union Address on Genocide, Israel, Palestine (susan albuhawa)
6. Fighting for the Congo (Maurice Carney, Claude Gatebuke, Dr. Ikema Ojore, Brother Passy, Kwame Wilburg, interview by Kalonji Changa and Rev. Keyanna Jones Moore)
PART III. Counter Moves
7. Prisoner Human Rights Movement [PHRM]: 2025 Nobel Letter and the Agency of PHRM (Joy James with Silicon Valley De-Bug Organization)
8. The Abolition of Carceral Schooling (rosalind hampton)
9. Black (Brazilian) Futurity (Andréia Beatriz dos Santos, Hamilton Borges dos Santos, interview by joão costa vargas)
10. When Opportunity Knocks... by Galley of the Streets (kai barrow, Jazz Franklin, Kara Lynch)
Conclusion: Democracy's Terrors and our Endless Resistance (Joy James)
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