Smart Borders

One particularly despicable example of this is to lead migrants to the most dangerous parts of the desert in Mexico, and in the case of the European Union, to encourage passages at the most dangerous times and through the most dangerous waters in the Mediterranean so that they die before arriving at the border in the vain hope that this will deter future migrants from making the same journey.

https://www.redpepper.org.uk/smart-borders-and-the-surveillance-of-refugees/

#Migration #FortressEurope #FortressBritain #FortressUSA #StateViolence

‘Smart’ borders and the surveillance of refugees

Governments everywhere are reinforcing their borders through surveillance technology. These invasive and dehumanising systems work only to deny refugees sanctuary, argues Emre Eren Korkmaz

What should be done about the continuing legacy of 9/11?

https://c4ss.org/content/55313

#911 #terrorism #StateViolence

Still Feeling the Effects of 9/11

On the morning of September 11th, 2001, four commercial airliners departing from Massachusetts, Virginia, and New Jersey were hijacked mid-flight by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists who planned to crash each plane into a prominent building within the United...

The Break the Cycle of Violence Act is unlike any other piece of gun control legislation introduced in recent history. Instead of creating more gun laws for the police to enforce, the bill instead suggests tackling gun violence by actually reallocating funds towards evidence-based community violence prevention programs instead of relying on police to solve the issue.

https://c4ss.org/content/55310

#GunControl #StateViolence #PoliceViolence #CommunityAction #nonviolence

Ending Gun Violence by Defunding the Police

Anarchists and many others in the radical left and libertarian movements are rightly skeptical of gun control due to the history of state power, including gun laws, being weaponized to directly target and oppress marginalized communities while...

The Egyptian Government is murdering opposition activists

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that the government rarely provided substantive information about the alleged shootouts.

For its new report, the rights organisation analysed nine of the incidents the Egyptian government claimed were shootouts, in which 75 alleged militants were killed. It interviewed relatives of 14 of the named individuals killed and conducted forensic analysis of pictures and video of the killings made available by the authorities.

In all 14 cases, family members of the deceased claimed that their relative was in police custody before the alleged shootout took place.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/sep/07/egypt-accused-of-widespread-state-sanctioned-killings-of-dissidents

#Egypt #HumanRights #FreeSpeech #StateViolence