Carwil Bjork-James

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anthropologist, revolutionary, #professor, #photographer, translator, father, dancer, lover of #streetart and human connection — research: #Bolivia, #IndigenousRights, the state, mass #SocialMovements, #tactics, #violence, #PublicSpace, #Territory — book: http://bit.ly/SovStreet

Carwil Bjork-James conducts immersive and historical research on disruptive protest, grassroots autonomy, state violence, and indigenous collective rights in Bolivia.
#anthropology #fedi22 #tfr

Bloghttps://woborders.blog
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/CarwilBJ
Carwil Bjork-JamesJul 1

Zohran Mamdani received 545,334 votes in RCV tally. That's 135% of Eric Adams' 2021 primary vote.

Mamdani's proven primary voters would make a 48% share of those who turned out in the 2021 general election.

https://enr.boenyc.gov/rcv/026916_1.html

#nycmayor

DEM Mayor Citywide

Carwil Bjork-JamesJun 16
Troops in Los Angeles marked a dramatic new turn in the Trump authoritarian rollout. Yet American protesters are making the turn towards a national mobilization in defense of freedom and democracy.
http://woborders.blog/2025/06/13/resistance-to-trump-reaches-its-first-turning-point/
Resistance to Trump reaches its first turning point

“The Whole World Is Watching.” It’s been decades since American protesters chanted this sentence at American police in an effort to deter violence and brutality. But it has perhaps neve…

Carwil without Borders
Carwil Bjork-JamesJun 16
How does a movement demonstrate political strength? Some thoughts and measures as the anti-Trump resistance kicks into gear.
https://wp.me/pcFxY-1jo
No Kings protests were extraordinary. How exactly?

Americans, citizens and immigrants alike, protested on Saturday, June 14, in exceptional numbers as a wave of No Kings protests became the most widespread public repudiation of the second Donald Tr…

Carwil without Borders
Carwil Bjork-JamesJun 15

The military parade for the Commander-in-Chief's birthday was literally a Nazi move. And apparently was more impressive in the original German.

(photo from Topographies of Terror, exhibit on the ruins of the Gestapo HQ)

Carwil Bjork-JamesJun 11
mouse reeveJun 10

I've been involved in coordinating legal support for people arrested at protests for many years now. Last night, I witnessed the mass arrest of anti-ICE protestors in San Francisco.

If you know someone who was arrested at a protest in the Bay, have them contact Legal Solidarity Bay Area at (510) 250-1700 for support when they are able. San Francisco does not use cash bail, and people are usually released on their own recognizance.

Carwil Bjork-JamesJun 11
samiamsamJun 10

ICE is snatching people off the streets - people of color - without finding out if they are citizens or on travel or work visas

ICE are covering their faces, they won't show identification, they could be some randos kidnapping people

once they are detained the people they snatch have no due process, some will be renditioned to torture gulags, some will be sent to countries they have no ties with

this is illegal, unethical and immoral

outrage is the rational response

Carwil Bjork-JamesJun 10
Pivotal moments in US history shaped by confrontational street protest include:
– Unionization of the auto industry 1936
– Passing the Fair Housing Act 1968
– Ending the US invasion of Cambodia 1970
Show threadCarwil Bjork-JamesJun 9

A coherent role for advocates of principled nonviolence in this moment is figuring out how to put themselves between riot munitions and communities at risk of expulsion.

And failing that, highlighting the immense disparities in violence between the security forces and the people creatively resisting them, far more with numbers and creativity than with force.

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Show threadCarwil Bjork-JamesJun 9

There's a different kind of nonviolence that only concerns itself with the tactics of resistance: are they meeting a standard of nonviolence? And not with the violent tactics of policing and repression.

No coherent ethical principle can justify this double standard.

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Show threadCarwil Bjork-JamesJun 9

And King, as a leading light of this perspective, called out first the violence of the US government and second the silence of white moderates as constituting the greatest violence in the world and the greatest obstacle to ending it.

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