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"Where is it? What does it feel like where you are? What do you see and hear and smell around you? How is it different than what came before? What might these circumstances call for?"
"I love 'Which Side Are You On?' for the way the clarity of its question and the necessity of an answer only gestures to the depths it demands. The song can’t take us all the way there—we’ll have to go looking for ourselves. I believe in that song because it’s physical, because it asks you where you are. Not in theory; your actual body."
~ Jeff Sharlet
A remarkable outcome for a large group of local Colorado activists last night. In Longmont, a Denver suburb northeast of Boulder, more than 50 people testified last night to city council (and more than 90 people came to the council meeting) about their pending renewal of a contract with Flock, the ALPR company that has been under fire for its surveillance capitalism. DeFlock Longmont, the group that organized the public comment scrum, won a victory when city council voted not to renew the contract at the end of the hours-long meeting.
Public comment was at times serious and other times silly, but unanimous in opposition to the city renewing their contract. Public safety officials, including the chief of Longmont Police, testified after the public comment period that the Flock cameras had been instrumental in stopping a number of dangerous incidents and arresting people who committed violent crimes.
I hope you're following this, @404mediaco because we are not going to stop with just this one city.
Read the story here:
yellowscene.com/2025/12/10/lon…
edit: added BRL story:
boulderreportinglab.org/2025/1…
Watch the video:
youtube.com/watch?v=CFj3UlteWH…
#COpolitics #Colorado #Longmont #Flock #ALPR #resistance
Longmont Residents Win Fight Against AI Surveillance
Longmont activists secured a major win as the city council voted to halt expansion of Flock’s AI surveillance system.Sprout Foster-Goodrich (Yellow Scene Magazine)
"In this way, religion became not consolation but reinforcement—a moral alibi for ownership.
For the enslaved, faith meant something different. Their Christianity inverted his: it promised that the last would be first, that masters would answer for every lash."
So at Jackson's funeral, the enslaved people surrounding him sang "One day your head must bow as low as ours" — "scripture in their own language, a theology of resistance."
I like in particular Glassco's critique of Jackson's "fierce but selective" application of scripture and theology — something characteristic of the entire white ruling class in the period of slavery, and something still thriving in the Republican party under Trump now.
As Glassco notes, Jackson's selective use of bible quotes was "theology bent to power":
"He could quote the Bible to justify punishment and use the same faith to comfort the dying."
I highly recommend Dr. Elisabeth Glassco's site 400 Years. It focuses on Black history, Black resistance and solidarity, with an eye to contemporary events that call for resistance including political ones.
Her essay yesterday about Andrew Jackson and other founders of the American Republic is first-rate.
#BlackHistory #solidarity #resistance #religion
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“One Day Your Head Must Bow as Low as Ours"
Their days ordered his fortune; their silence framed his legend. What remains is the record beneath the record—the lives whose endurance exposes the power that built the early republicDr. D. Elisabeth Glassco (400 Years)