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michigan’s national guard and the repression of the 2020 uprising

Posted on 2023/03/18 - 2023/03/18 by unsalted
Michigan National Guard Humvees and troops deployed in a barricade in Grand Rapids to oppose the George Floyd Uprising

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Posted on https://paper.wf/downas/ on March 12, 2023 – Link

in most nation-states around the world, the military spends as much time repressing uprisings against colonial capitalism as it does fighting “foreign” enemies. the united states is no exception, as this brief look at a national counterinsurgency campaign in one section of u.s.-occupied ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ (anishinaabewaki) will show.

 

as the may-june 2020 uprisings against the police took place, the michigan national guard supported a curfew in grand rapids by maintaining vehicle barricades, boarding up stores, and otherwise giving operational support to city and state police, who beat protesters, shot tear gas, and made arrests. the troops were summoned by the mayor.

 

they did much the same in kalamazoo, where the mayor also requested national guard reinforcements after declaring a curfew—threatening jail for noncompliance—as his police force tear-gassed demonstrators at point-blank range. in lansing, national guard troops were deployed to similar ends.

 

many people infected by the u.s. left’s racial, colonial, gendered, and [dis]ableist biases act as if national military forces are different from—specifically, not as bad as—police. this bias is especially easy for u.s. citizens to maintain, since the overwhelming majority of victims of “the troops” suffer and die outside the physical and conceptual borders of the country. but as demonstrated above, elites in the imperial core who believe their positions are seriously threatened call on those same troops when the cops aren’t enough. and on more than one occasion, the army national guard have proven themselves able to take part in lethal repression “at home” when ordered.


this has been written in solidarity with efforts to stop camp grayling.

Posted in General, Stop Camp GraylingTagged National Guard, repost

University of Michigan Career Fair Disrupted Over Military Recruiters

Posted on 2023/02/10 - 2023/02/10 by unsalted
Rally-goers hold banners reading "No Camp Grayling Expansion", "Land Back", and "All Out Against Empire" in front of the Michigan Union building

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On Wednesday February 9, 2023, the University of Michigan welcomed a variety of military and government recruiters into its Career Fair in Ann Arbor. The U.S. Navy, the National Security Agency, and other militaristic organizations, were provided stands to promote US imperialism and occupation– and to recruit many young students to their ranks.

In protest, a series of disruptions against these recruiters took place throughout the day. Multiple people pushed passed the registration desk carrying banners that said “Stop Camp Grayling” and chanting “No prisons, no borders, fuck your law and order”, emphasizing the Army’s plan to expand an already massive and environmentally-damaging National Guard training facility in Grayling, Michigan. The actions converged in a rally outside of the career fair, where protesters chanted “Stop Cop City” and “Fascist, racist all the way, US army, go away!” and passed out flyers to incoming students to warn them against working for the US war machine.

Another group sprayed red food coloring on the NSA and U.S. Navy displays, and were then detained for several hours while the U of M police refused to give information about their whereabouts or status to concerned friends and supporters. They were eventually released, but this just demonstrates how the University of Michigan continues to support the military industrial complex by unlawfully holding detainees for extended time and refusing to provide information on them to outsiders.

We will not stand by while the University of Michigan continues to support and help recruit people into the US military-industrial complex. We will not stand by while the state expands its capacity to brutally repress our communities by expanding Camp Grayling in Michigan and building Cop City in Atlanta.

2, 4, 6, 8, FUCK THE POLICE STATE

A flyer distributed by protestors lies on the recruiting table for the Oakland County Sheriff. The flyer reads: "WANT BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS? SIGN UP FOR A GOVERNMENT JOB The Navy and other American military forces have murdered, tortured, pillaged, bombed, displaced, and devastated countless people throughout history, and continue to do so today. The National Guard has destroyed 148,000 acres of pristine Michigan forest to build Camp Grayling, the largest NG training facility in the US - a facility the size of Chicago. And there are plans to double the size of it in 2023. (Check out @StopCampGrayling on Instagram for more details) The NSA's massive surveillance operation spies on millions of people across the country. They use the data they collect to launch illegal investigations on innocent people. Flip over this flyer for a list of the hundreds of war crimes, invasions, and occupations the American military has committed throughout history. DO YOU WANT TO WORK FOR THESE PEOPLE?"

Posted in General, Stop Camp GraylingTagged direct action, National Guard, NSA, Oakland County Sheriff, University of Michigan, US Navy

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