Fighting state violence from Gaza to Los Angeles – Mondoweiss

Over the weekend, my social media feeds were dominated by two sets of images: twelve humanitarian volunteers with their hands raised in surrender on the Mediterranean Sea, and protesters in Los Angeles facing National Guard troops deployed by a president who calls them “violent, insurrectionist mobs.”  

The images revealed a troubling interconnectedness. Both scenes, unfolding within hours of each other, exposed the same imperial machinery: one that responds to moral courage…