Saturday, Octopber 29, 2011 at Occupy Oakland, Oscar Grant Plaza (AKA Frank Ogawa) 3:30-5:30PM
Sunday at Occupy Oakland, Oscar Grant Plaza 1-3PM
Sunday discussion will be led by Larry Everest, author of
Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda.
These discussion circles with Revolution Books will be taking off from these quotes:
BAsics 1:24
The role of the police is not to serve and protect the people. It is to serve and protect the system that rules over the people. To enforce the relations of exploitation and oppression, the conditions of poverty, misery and degradation into which the system has cast people and is determined to keep people in. The law and order the police are about, with all of their brutality and murder, is the law and the order that enforces all this oppression and madness.
BAsics 1:21
You can think of this in terms of politics and the state: If you didn’t have, not only laws but a state apparatus of repression with the armed forces, the police, the courts, the prisons, the bureaucracies, the administrative function—if you didn’t have that, how would you maintain the basic economic relations of exploitation and the basic social relations that go along with that? How would you maintain the domination of men over women, the domination of certain nationalities or “races” over others, if you did not have a superstructure to enforce that, or if that superstructure—the politics, the ideology and culture that is promoted, the morality promoted among people—were out of alignment with those social and, fundamentally, those economic relations? Once again, you wouldn’t be able to maintain the order, stability and functioning of the system.
This is fundamentally why a system of this kind cannot be reformed…
For the complete quotes and more info on this event, go to www.revolutionbooks.org.
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