7-21-2020 On Black Lives Matter’s abolitionist grammar, Palestine, and the general strike - Ariella Aïsha Azoulay Mondoweiss


https://mondoweiss.net/2020/07/on-black-lives-matters-abolitionist-grammar-palestine-and-the-general-strike/

 

…The general abolitionist strike will continue to find ways to put pressure on institutions not to make an exception of Palestine… With millions on the streets undistracted by the categorical command to produce and consume, those who usually produce photos or ideas – which also exist as commodities – hold the power to refrain from or refuse to deliver certain goods. And they should, whenever doing so would mean crossing the picket line of All Black Lives Matter grammar. There are many different ways for people to join the strike and render legible the complicity between the white institutions charged with the production of knowledge and culture and the law enforcement regime that has been shaped to protect private property. After all, these institutions are built on the foundations of centuries of primitive accumulation of Black and indigenous land, wealth and stolen labor… In collaboration with many activists who shared hundreds of photographs from the United States, Turkey, Peru, Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Yemen, Bahrain, Tunisia, Venezuela, Egypt, and Canada, the project assembles a choir of voices to sing out loud a truth claim about the role of museums in reproducing anti-Blackness and anti-Palestinianness.

 

Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

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