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🌎 [EN] ✊📣 ICE acts as a tool of state terror across the United States. Institutional violence, including deadly immigration operations, spreads fear and control over migrant communities in multiple cities. Terror becomes a political tool, normalizing violence and excluding those the State chooses.
📸 Protesters in Minnesota, January 23, 2026 – Fibonacci Blue / CC BY 4.0
🌐+info: https://url.ecoarglobal.org/1wn
#StateTerror #ViolenciaInstitucional #SocialControl #FearAsTool #StopICE

ICE and the Use of State Terror in Migration Policy - Campañas ECOAR)))

In the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operates as a state apparatus that exercises systematic coercion over the migrant population. In the current context, marked by an increase in violence and institutional persecution —including episodes that have had lethal consequences for migrants— these practices take on an even greater severity. Death ceases to […]

Campañas ECOAR)))

Anarchism News Jan 20

Dark Nights: **Infiltrators Database**

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2026/01/19/infiltrators-database/

https://www.notrace.how/infiltrators/ Searchable database of cases of long-term infiltrators who have targeted groups engaged in subversive activities in the 21st century. The goal is to help anarchists and other rebels understand how infiltrators operate.

#SocialControl #CounterInformation #InfiltratorsDatabase

Infiltrators Database – Dark Nights

Cheshire Jan 15

Language Arts | Meghan Racklin
https://thebaffler.com/latest/language-arts-racklin
#ElaineKraf
#SocialControl

Language Arts | Meghan Racklin

The women of Elaine Kraf’s novels are all, in some way, trapped—in a madhouse, or in a man-made world.

The Baffler

Headlines Africa Dec 16

Africa: Internet Shutdowns Are Increasing Dramatically in Africa - a New Book Explains Why: [The Conversation Africa] Between 2016 and 2024 there were 193 internet shutdowns imposed in 41 African countries. This form of social control is a growing trend in the continent, according to a new open access source book. It has provided the first-ever comparative analysis of how and why African states… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TPrYBg #Africa #InternetShutdowns #DigitalRights #SocialControl #AccessToInformation

Katika Kühnreich Nov 2

[EN 👇]#Heute in #Stuttgart: #Demo gegen #palantir, organisiert von @kein_palantir_bw unterstützt u.a. von @CCC
Mehr Infos unter https://sueden.social/@kein_palantir_bw/115424958078949645

[EN 👇]
Palantir: We do not only have to talk about the software, but about the owners and the #society they want to lead us in!

#today is a #demonstration against Palantir in Stuttgart

More information: https://sueden.social/@kein_palantir_bw/115424958078949645

#BadenWurttemberg #socialcontrol #surveillance #resistance #tech #socialmoment #NoPalantir #polizei #police

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Oct 13

The Price of #Dogma: #Religion's Impact on #Freedom and Progress

Russell Bell
Independent Scholar
Date Written: September 27, 2025

Abstract
This article argues that #religiousinstitutions function as systems of #socialcontrol rather than #spiritualguides, deploying #psychological mechanisms of #fear and #dependency to maintain #authority while resisting #scientificprogress and #humanautonomy.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5536859

The Price of Dogma: Religion's Impact on Freedom and Progress

This article argues that religious institutions function as systems of social control rather than spiritual guides, deploying psychological mechanisms of fear a

Prof. Dr. Christian Wickert Sep 18

Hello Fediverse! 👋 / Hallo Fediverse!
I’m Christian Wickert, Professor of Sociology & Criminology and editor of SozTheo.com (EN) & SozTheo.de (DE).

On SozTheo I publish resources on crime, deviance, policing, punishment & social control – for students, researchers & anyone curious about society.

Here I’ll share updates & key concepts from #Criminology / #Sociology.

#Criminology #Sociology #Deviance #Policing #Punishment #SocialControl #SocialScience #AcademicMastodon #Introduction

Anarchism News Sep 9

Dark Nights: **Indonesia: ‘FUCK THEM ALL’ EN/ES**

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/09/indonesia-fuck-them-all-en-es/

FUCK THEM ALL. Last night, our friend Pem got snatched by the pigs, and we still don’t know what charges they’ll throw at him. This morning, they’re out there in the media, trying to make a spectacle of mass arrests, calling us “provocateurs” and “outside agitators.” And they’re naming names—our names. The usual traitor of […]

#SocialControl

Indonesia: ‘FUCK THEM ALL’ EN/ES – Dark Nights

Protyus A. Gendher Sep 8

SCRIPT Theory https://invisiblymisdiagnosed.com/2025/07/20/6-script-theory/ #SCRIPTTheory #psychology #anthropology #script #dynamics #narratives #socialcontrol #control #conformity #roles

6) SCRIPT Theory

The SCRIPT theory discusses how social interactions rely on predefined scripts that shape perceptions and relationships. These scripts guide communication and behavior, reinforcing social norms and…

InvisiblY MisdiagnoseD

C:\mylife\> -=EV=-

Sep 6

The British writer and journalist George Orwell, in his novel “1984”, described the role of military conflicts in maintaining the power of the elites.

Orwell’s main ideas:

1. The essence of war is destruction.
War is not needed for victory or for freedom, but for the elimination of surplus resources and the products of labor.

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces what might otherwise make the masses too comfortable and, in the long run, too intelligent.”

2. War as a means of control.
Constant fear and the shortage of resources distract people from questions of power and prevent them from thinking about the injustice of the system.

3. War for the sake of war.
Orwell emphasized that war is not meant to be won — it is meant to continue endlessly, sustaining poverty and ignorance, without which hierarchical society cannot exist.

4. Artificial enemy and propaganda.
Before every conflict, an enemy is either found or created, and the masses are persuaded of the need to fight against it.

“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.”

5. The cost of military spending.
Enormous resources spent on armaments could otherwise be used to improve people’s lives — for food, medicine, and education. But instead, they are deliberately directed toward destruction.

#GeorgeOrwell #Orwell1984 #WarIsPeace #PoliticalControl #PowerAndWar #Propaganda #OrwellQuotes #CriticalThinking #WarAndPeace #SocialControl #Orwellian #AntiWar #FreedomAndControl #HumanRights #TruthAndLies