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Monday 4 November 2019

'Law and order' abusing disadvantaged minorities

In an article critiquing the nonviolent direct action tactics of XR (Extinction Rebellion),
http://resilience.org/stories/2019-10-31/the-flawed-social-science-behind-extinction-rebellions-change-strategy/?fbclid=IwAR2VG6K6h_BdEKoVEHB_NJJCaEKMPo4mmx2WW3xlD-ZL5_ORA7RNCpGvWw4
Nafeez Ahmed writes:
Others have argued that XR’s strategy means black and ethnic minorities facing mass brutalisation from law enforcement will be inevitably marginalised by a movement whose principal focus is ‘disruption’ actions premised on getting arrested; thus erasing minorities and indigenous people from the movement. That raises questions about the capacity of such a movement to reach and enfranchise wide grassroots support in a capital city that is very diverse.

The same can be said of disabled activists' relations with 'law & order':
reveals

Kicked, punched, knocked unconscious, tipped out of wheelchairs’: Campaigners describe repeated police targeting of disabled anti-fracking protesters

‘Kicked, punched, knocked unconscious, tipped out of wheelchairs’: Campaigners describe repeated police targeting of disabled anti-fracking protesters
Police forces are repeatedly targeting and assaulting disabled people involved in peaceful anti-fracking protests, campaigners have told Disability News Service (DNS). DNS has seen video footage of a string of incidents in which disabled campaigners taking part in peaceful protests have […]
 
and much more, mainly along the lines of pecuniary violence toward disabled nonviolent activists by way of police sharing information on disabled activists with the Department for Work & Pensions, toward attacking claimant entitlement. The late nonviolent activist Mahatma Gandhi is accredited as saying, "Poverty is the worst form of violence."

Alan Wheatley

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