In August of this year, a coalition of over 50 black-led organizations joined together to create a platform and an agenda, that summarized the tactics and collective needs to end the war on black people. Not only do the platform of The Movement for Black Lives (MFBL) and Black Lives Matter (BLM) promote intersectionality and inclusion, it also addresses the issues of categorized citizenship in regards to hegemonic power, without adopting dominant structures in their appeals. Intersectional groups can join with BLM as they attempt to move from the nation-state as an identity and away from legacies of dominant power through anti-carceral politics.
The BLM platform can be summarized in 5 themes: reparations, investment and divesting in black …show more content…
It should also be noted that while there, the protestors were attacked by state-sanctioned military in an attempt to build a pipeline financed through a private company. “Separately identifying and addressing the intersection of sets of social relations” through analyzing similar project intersections becomes a method of re-creating identity away from the nation-state framework and imperialist context (Walby). Intersectional activism in BLMs is also apparent in the support for anti-capitalistic reform, as outlined in the “Reparations” section of AVBL that would not only systematically invest in Black communities, but address communities that suffer from the criminalization of poverty; The section calls for “continued divestment from exploitation of our communities” and most importantly, the systematic, cultural, educational, and economic reparations …show more content…
Mass incarceration through carceral politics was the product of coopted grassroots activism from “law enforcement-centered approaches to sexual and gender violence” to “state-sponsored, police- partnered depoliticized service provision work”; By aligning white supremacist politics into the nation-state framework of a “female” safety issue, it allows for state-sanctioned citizen categorization under a domestic, humanitarian guise (Spade and Wilse). The MVBL addresses the various needs for invest and divestment of retroactive decriminalization of petty crimes, a reallocation of funds at all levels, the decrease in military expenditures, and the overall invest into Black communities and divestment from exploitative forces (AVBL). This platform consolidates the abolition of carceral politics and restoring punitive damages from capitalistic
The BLM platform can be summarized in 5 themes: reparations, investment and divesting in black …show more content…
It should also be noted that while there, the protestors were attacked by state-sanctioned military in an attempt to build a pipeline financed through a private company. “Separately identifying and addressing the intersection of sets of social relations” through analyzing similar project intersections becomes a method of re-creating identity away from the nation-state framework and imperialist context (Walby). Intersectional activism in BLMs is also apparent in the support for anti-capitalistic reform, as outlined in the “Reparations” section of AVBL that would not only systematically invest in Black communities, but address communities that suffer from the criminalization of poverty; The section calls for “continued divestment from exploitation of our communities” and most importantly, the systematic, cultural, educational, and economic reparations …show more content…
Mass incarceration through carceral politics was the product of coopted grassroots activism from “law enforcement-centered approaches to sexual and gender violence” to “state-sponsored, police- partnered depoliticized service provision work”; By aligning white supremacist politics into the nation-state framework of a “female” safety issue, it allows for state-sanctioned citizen categorization under a domestic, humanitarian guise (Spade and Wilse). The MVBL addresses the various needs for invest and divestment of retroactive decriminalization of petty crimes, a reallocation of funds at all levels, the decrease in military expenditures, and the overall invest into Black communities and divestment from exploitative forces (AVBL). This platform consolidates the abolition of carceral politics and restoring punitive damages from capitalistic