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"Together, the writers sound a sobering warning: the American government is an iron fist in a velvet glove whose purpose remains preserving the status quo and enriching the rich."- Publishers Weekly What happens when the techniques of counterinsurgency, developed to squash small skirmishes and guerrilla wars on the border of Empire, blend into the state's apparatus for domestic policing? In Life During Wartime , fifteen authors and activists reflect on the American domestic security apparatus, detailing the increasing militarization of the police force and the re-emergence of infiltration…mehr
"Together, the writers sound a sobering warning: the American government is an iron fist in a velvet glove whose purpose remains preserving the status quo and enriching the rich."- Publishers Weekly
What happens when the techniques of counterinsurgency, developed to squash small skirmishes and guerrilla wars on the border of Empire, blend into the state's apparatus for domestic policing? In Life During Wartime, fifteen authors and activists reflect on the American domestic security apparatus, detailing the increasing militarization of the police force and the re-emergence of infiltration and counter-intelligence as surveillance strategies, highlighting the ways that the techniques and the technologies of counterinsurgency have been applied on the home front, and offering strategies for resistance.
Includes contributions Kristian Williams, Will Munger, Walidah Imarisha, George Ciccariello-Maher, Beriah Empie, Elaine Brown, Geoffrey Boyce, Conor Cash, Vicente L. Rafael, Alexander Reid Ross, Evan Tucker, Layne Mullett, Sarah Small, and Luce Guillen-Givins.
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Kristian Williams is the author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America, American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination, Confrontations: Selected Journalism, and Hurt: Notes on Torture in a Modern Democracy. He has written about counterinsurgency and political repression for Counterpunch, Clamor, In These Times, Z Magazine, International Socialist Review, Labor Notes, Social Anarchism, the Earth First! Journal, Eat the State, PDXS, Dollars and Sense, and (perhaps oddly) The Comics Journal -- as well as in the introduction to the 2007 edition of The New State Repression. Lara Messersmith-Glavin is the founder and managing editor of the non-fiction journal Alltopia. Her own writing has appeared in Alltopia, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, the Spoon Cafe Journal, and MaLa, the premier English-language literary and nonfiction journal of China. Her accounts of culture shock, education, the military response to a Tibetan uprising, and the Sichuan earthquake earned her the 2008 Chinalyst.com award for Best Travel Writing. Lara is on the board of directors for the Institute for Anarchist Studies, which seeks to further anarchist thought, solidarity, and practice by funding radical writers through grants, and providing opportunities for publication through Perspectives (now both online and in print form) and the Anarchist Interventions book series (produced in collaboration with AK Press). Will Munger is a member of the Life During Wartime editorial collective and also organized the 2011 Counter Counterinsurgency Convergence.
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Part One: The Politics of Repression COINTELPRO to COIN Claude Marks, interviewed by Kristian Williams and Walidah Imarisha Marks discusses the continuities and the developments in repression from the Cointelpro era to today. Repression, Civil Liberties, Right-Wingers, and Liberals by Chip Berlet Berlet contrasts the state's approach to addressing challenges from the right with its response to opposition from the left. He then considers the political implications for left movements when the state attacks the right. Canada's Counterinsurgency Strategy Against Indigenous Peoples by Zig Zag Zig Zag shows how its history of colonialism has shaped the Canadian government's strategy of repression. Part Two: Counterinsurgency and Domestic Policing The Other Side of the COIN: Counterinsurgency and Community Policing by Kristian Williams Williams describes the historical transfer of counterinsurgency theory, strategy, and technique, from the U.S. military to the domestic police and back again. He ends by pointing to the implications for social movements as they encounter and resist repression. Social War in the Salad Bowl: Counterinsurgency in Salinas by Will Munger Will Munger presents a contemporary case study of police counterinsurgency, drawn from his thesis research on the collaboration between the Naval Postgraduate School and the Salinas Police Department. Gang Injunctions and the Control of Neighborhood Life by Rachel Herzig This chapter considers the history of gang injunctions and the effects of their implementation in communities of color. It then details the campaign against the introduction of injunctions in Oakland, California. Part Three: Security Culture: Recognizing and Subverting Repression Recognizing Informants and Avoiding Entrapment by Jenny Esquivel Esquivel recounts documented cases of infiltration and entrapment, drawing lessons for social movements. Who needs the NSA when we have social media? by Evan Tucker Tucker explains how the state and private businesses use of social media to monitor, track, and disrupt their opponents. Data Security by Josef Schneider This short paper explains the basic principles of computer security and suggests some simple ways to diminish its effectiveness. Part Four: Political Offenses and Legal Defenses: Case Studies The Curious Case of Conor Cash by Conor Cash and Kevin Van Meter Conor Cash is one of the only "Green Scare" defendants who is not in jail and there are a number of important reasons for this beyond his innocence. Cash and Van Meter provide a chronology of the case, describe the surrounding environment, and detail the support strategy. They identify lessons for current political organizing in general and political prisoner support work in particular. Repression to Resistance: How Fighting State Repression Can Make Us Stronger Layne Mullett, Sarah Small, and Luce Guillen-Givins This paper is an exploration of how fighting government repression and supporting political prisoners can and does open doors for us to advance and connect our movements while we support our comrades. The authors discuss how their own experience organizing around the RNC-8 case led to alliances with other people fighting repression, in particular the Puerto Rican independence movement's struggle to free their political prisoners. Part Five: Political Prisoners, Politicizing Prisons White Supremacy and the Prison Crisis: Connecting the Dots by Beriah Empie This paper offers a framework for tackling white supremacy within radical currents. It briefly covers the history of white supremacy and explains the ways the prison industrial complex is central to the maintenance of a racist culture. Political Prisoners and Prisoner Support by Jenny Esquivel This chapter outlines both the political necessity and the practical challenges of organizing in support of political prisoners, tracing the steps of a campaign from arrest to trial to long-term incarceration and eventual release. On Memory and Resistance by Elaine Brown This excerpt from Brown's keynote speech connects the history of the black freedom movement with her work in supporting the 2010 Georgia prison strike, the largest prison strike in US history. Part Six: Social Science and Social War Geography, Counter-insurgency and the "G-Bomb": the Case of México Indígena by Geoffrey Boyce and Conor Cash In 2005, geographers from the University of Kansas began a "collaborative mapping" project with indigenous peoples in Oaxaca, Mexico. Dubbed "Mexica Indigena", this project was presented as a means of defending traditional land claims. Instead, Mexica Indigena was the pilot for a Foreign Military Studies Office program meant to augment counterinsurgency efforts in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Colombia, and elsewhere. This paper explores the implications for military/academic collaboration, professional ethics, and the colonial legacy of geography and anthropology. Targeting Translation: Counterinsurgency and the Weaponization of Language by Vicente L. Rafael Rafael focuses on two prevalent tropes in the discourse of counterinsurgency: the "weaponization" and "targeting" of foreign languages. How is the counterinsurgent notion of languages as "weapons" and "targets" linked to the strategic imperative of deploying translation as a means for colonization? What are the limits and contradictions to the targeting of speech? Part Seven: Counter-COIN Countering Counterinsurgency: Strategies, Situations and Tactics by John Kelly Kelly argues that counterinsurgency doctrines preemptively define local situations in transvalued, global terms. He examines the antidemocratic roots of the "insurgency" concept, and then tracks the fall, rise, and current status of "insurgency" and "counterinsurgency" metaphors in military theory and practice. Citing examples from his own research in Thailand, Burma, and Northeast India, he outlines the stark consequences of such transvaluation. Counter-Recruitment as Counter-Counterinsurgency by Mario Hardy Hardy places opposition to military recruitment within a framework of broader resistance. Just Us: Transforming Justice by Building Communities by Alexis Pauline Gumbs Gumbs examines crime as a problem for resistance movements, both in terms of its corrosive effects on solidarity and as a source of legitimacy for the state. She then describes some of the ways social movements have addressed this problem, and the politics implicit in interventions outside of the existing justice system. Capture/Rupture: Insurrectionary Counter to Counterinsurgency by David Cunningham Cunningham argues that empire responds to all social conflict with methods of counterinsurgency; and he advocates countering the state with the insurrectionary potentialities that exist in our day-to-day struggles.
Part One: The Politics of Repression COINTELPRO to COIN Claude Marks, interviewed by Kristian Williams and Walidah Imarisha Marks discusses the continuities and the developments in repression from the Cointelpro era to today. Repression, Civil Liberties, Right-Wingers, and Liberals by Chip Berlet Berlet contrasts the state's approach to addressing challenges from the right with its response to opposition from the left. He then considers the political implications for left movements when the state attacks the right. Canada's Counterinsurgency Strategy Against Indigenous Peoples by Zig Zag Zig Zag shows how its history of colonialism has shaped the Canadian government's strategy of repression. Part Two: Counterinsurgency and Domestic Policing The Other Side of the COIN: Counterinsurgency and Community Policing by Kristian Williams Williams describes the historical transfer of counterinsurgency theory, strategy, and technique, from the U.S. military to the domestic police and back again. He ends by pointing to the implications for social movements as they encounter and resist repression. Social War in the Salad Bowl: Counterinsurgency in Salinas by Will Munger Will Munger presents a contemporary case study of police counterinsurgency, drawn from his thesis research on the collaboration between the Naval Postgraduate School and the Salinas Police Department. Gang Injunctions and the Control of Neighborhood Life by Rachel Herzig This chapter considers the history of gang injunctions and the effects of their implementation in communities of color. It then details the campaign against the introduction of injunctions in Oakland, California. Part Three: Security Culture: Recognizing and Subverting Repression Recognizing Informants and Avoiding Entrapment by Jenny Esquivel Esquivel recounts documented cases of infiltration and entrapment, drawing lessons for social movements. Who needs the NSA when we have social media? by Evan Tucker Tucker explains how the state and private businesses use of social media to monitor, track, and disrupt their opponents. Data Security by Josef Schneider This short paper explains the basic principles of computer security and suggests some simple ways to diminish its effectiveness. Part Four: Political Offenses and Legal Defenses: Case Studies The Curious Case of Conor Cash by Conor Cash and Kevin Van Meter Conor Cash is one of the only "Green Scare" defendants who is not in jail and there are a number of important reasons for this beyond his innocence. Cash and Van Meter provide a chronology of the case, describe the surrounding environment, and detail the support strategy. They identify lessons for current political organizing in general and political prisoner support work in particular. Repression to Resistance: How Fighting State Repression Can Make Us Stronger Layne Mullett, Sarah Small, and Luce Guillen-Givins This paper is an exploration of how fighting government repression and supporting political prisoners can and does open doors for us to advance and connect our movements while we support our comrades. The authors discuss how their own experience organizing around the RNC-8 case led to alliances with other people fighting repression, in particular the Puerto Rican independence movement's struggle to free their political prisoners. Part Five: Political Prisoners, Politicizing Prisons White Supremacy and the Prison Crisis: Connecting the Dots by Beriah Empie This paper offers a framework for tackling white supremacy within radical currents. It briefly covers the history of white supremacy and explains the ways the prison industrial complex is central to the maintenance of a racist culture. Political Prisoners and Prisoner Support by Jenny Esquivel This chapter outlines both the political necessity and the practical challenges of organizing in support of political prisoners, tracing the steps of a campaign from arrest to trial to long-term incarceration and eventual release. On Memory and Resistance by Elaine Brown This excerpt from Brown's keynote speech connects the history of the black freedom movement with her work in supporting the 2010 Georgia prison strike, the largest prison strike in US history. Part Six: Social Science and Social War Geography, Counter-insurgency and the "G-Bomb": the Case of México Indígena by Geoffrey Boyce and Conor Cash In 2005, geographers from the University of Kansas began a "collaborative mapping" project with indigenous peoples in Oaxaca, Mexico. Dubbed "Mexica Indigena", this project was presented as a means of defending traditional land claims. Instead, Mexica Indigena was the pilot for a Foreign Military Studies Office program meant to augment counterinsurgency efforts in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Colombia, and elsewhere. This paper explores the implications for military/academic collaboration, professional ethics, and the colonial legacy of geography and anthropology. Targeting Translation: Counterinsurgency and the Weaponization of Language by Vicente L. Rafael Rafael focuses on two prevalent tropes in the discourse of counterinsurgency: the "weaponization" and "targeting" of foreign languages. How is the counterinsurgent notion of languages as "weapons" and "targets" linked to the strategic imperative of deploying translation as a means for colonization? What are the limits and contradictions to the targeting of speech? Part Seven: Counter-COIN Countering Counterinsurgency: Strategies, Situations and Tactics by John Kelly Kelly argues that counterinsurgency doctrines preemptively define local situations in transvalued, global terms. He examines the antidemocratic roots of the "insurgency" concept, and then tracks the fall, rise, and current status of "insurgency" and "counterinsurgency" metaphors in military theory and practice. Citing examples from his own research in Thailand, Burma, and Northeast India, he outlines the stark consequences of such transvaluation. Counter-Recruitment as Counter-Counterinsurgency by Mario Hardy Hardy places opposition to military recruitment within a framework of broader resistance. Just Us: Transforming Justice by Building Communities by Alexis Pauline Gumbs Gumbs examines crime as a problem for resistance movements, both in terms of its corrosive effects on solidarity and as a source of legitimacy for the state. She then describes some of the ways social movements have addressed this problem, and the politics implicit in interventions outside of the existing justice system. Capture/Rupture: Insurrectionary Counter to Counterinsurgency by David Cunningham Cunningham argues that empire responds to all social conflict with methods of counterinsurgency; and he advocates countering the state with the insurrectionary potentialities that exist in our day-to-day struggles.
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