Eight days ago, students and others established a tent camp – a Liberated Zone – at IU’s Dunn Meadow, as part of a national rising tide of protest against Israel’s war in Gaza. Within hours, Indiana State Police arrived from Indianapolis and attacked the students, injuring dozens and arresting 34 students and faculty. The protesters were undaunted, rebuilt their encampment, and faced a repeat assault that Saturday. The repressive apparatus reached this level of violence across the country, with dozens of camps and occupied buildings facing militarized incursions by police. This begs the question of why the state turned so quickly to naked violence, even compared to previous movements that have had to face down and defeat police violence. Many have pointed to Cop City and similar police training facilities, which have worked since the 2020 George Floyd Uprising to prepare cops to squash anti-racist protest. We have covered the Stop Cop City movement previously on Kite Line. There is certainly an intimate relationship between prisons, police violence, and this country’s long history of racist repression. We spoke to local IU faculty and other movement participants about this sequence and what it says about the future.
February 9, 2024: Studies in Dignity
January 12, 2024: Leon Benson is Free
December 8, 2023: Written from the Inside
November 24, 2023: Block Cop City
October 13, 2023: Surveillance and Social Media
August 25, 2023: Transforming Trauma- Voices from Inside-Out
Advocacy Into Action
July 7, 2023: Experience Into Advocacy
June 2, 2023: The Atlanta Solidarity Fund
May 19, 2021: Prison by Any Other Name, Part One
April 21, 2023: Crisis and Neglect
April 14, 2023: A History of Sexual Policing
April 7, 2023: The Rising Chorus Against Cop City
March 31, 2023: The Origins of Cop City, Part Three
March 24, 2023: The Origins of Cop City, Part Two
March 17, 2023: The Origins of Cop City
March 10, 2023: We Have to Stick Together
March 3, 2023: Knowledge is Power- The Stakes of “Cop City”
February 24, 2023: Rolling Back Repression in Atlanta
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