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A review by neyhart
No Wall They Can Build by CrimethInc.
4.0
Some quotes that I want to remember:
"The border is not just a wall. It's not just a line on a map. It's not any particular physical location. It's a power structure, a system of control. The border is everywhere that people live in fear of deportation, everywhere migrants are denied the rights according to citizens, everywhere human beings are segregated into included and excluded.
The border does not divide one world from another. There is only one world, and the border is tearing it apart."
"I offer these words as ammunition to anyone who cares to intervene when other people are treated like pieces of meat."
"The suffering that takes place every day on the border is not an accident. It is not a mistake and it is not the result of a misunderstanding. It is the predictable and intentional result of policies implemented at every level of the government on both sides of the border. These policies have rational objectives and directly benefit identifiable sectors of the population in both countries. It may be evil, but it's not stupid."
"This is where the privilege politics that are so prevalent in the American activist milieu fall fatally short. People who are motivated by guilt and shame rather than by love and rage will eventually disengage; people who are not fighting for their own lives will eventually give up. Always."
"The border divides the whole world into gated communities and prisons, one within the other in concentric circles of privilege and control. At one end of the continuum, there are billionaires who can fly anywhere in private jets; at the other end, inmates in solitary confinement. As long as there is a border between you and those less fortunate than you, you can be sure there will be a border above you, too, keeping you from the things you need.
And who will tear down that second border with you, if not the people separated from you by the first."
"The border is not just a wall. It's not just a line on a map. It's not any particular physical location. It's a power structure, a system of control. The border is everywhere that people live in fear of deportation, everywhere migrants are denied the rights according to citizens, everywhere human beings are segregated into included and excluded.
The border does not divide one world from another. There is only one world, and the border is tearing it apart."
"I offer these words as ammunition to anyone who cares to intervene when other people are treated like pieces of meat."
"The suffering that takes place every day on the border is not an accident. It is not a mistake and it is not the result of a misunderstanding. It is the predictable and intentional result of policies implemented at every level of the government on both sides of the border. These policies have rational objectives and directly benefit identifiable sectors of the population in both countries. It may be evil, but it's not stupid."
"This is where the privilege politics that are so prevalent in the American activist milieu fall fatally short. People who are motivated by guilt and shame rather than by love and rage will eventually disengage; people who are not fighting for their own lives will eventually give up. Always."
"The border divides the whole world into gated communities and prisons, one within the other in concentric circles of privilege and control. At one end of the continuum, there are billionaires who can fly anywhere in private jets; at the other end, inmates in solitary confinement. As long as there is a border between you and those less fortunate than you, you can be sure there will be a border above you, too, keeping you from the things you need.
And who will tear down that second border with you, if not the people separated from you by the first."