We Must Fight Repression With Solidarity — Not by Replicating Carceral Logic
A new tool helps activists think through the material impacts of the language we use to talk about protest and backlash.
In June, a Florida appeals court upheld Gov. Ron DeSantis’s anti-rioting law. The law, which both increases penalties for existing crimes and creates new crimes aimed at, in DeSantis’s words, ending “the bullying and intimidation tactics of the radical left,” was challenged in a lawsuit that argued it would undermine free speech rights of protesters. The appeals court decided the law...