[-empyre-] WH vs sanctuary cities

[Frederic Neyrat]

Dear Renate,

I don't know enough on this topic to moderate! But I'd be happy to actively
participate.

My best,

Frédéric

2017-03-27 22:51 GMT-05:00 Renate Terese Ferro <rferro at cornell.edu>:

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> Thanks Frédéric for writing in. Wars: military, social, psychological,
> wars between families, technological war.....
> will you moderate ? Tomorrow I am teaching my students a bit about
> Augmented Reality.  What about a war in virtual space?
> Best to you, Renate
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Mar 27, 2017, at 11:02 PM, Frederic Neyrat <fneyrat at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Concerning the occupation - "many of us feel that this is no longer "our"
> country or "our" government, but a kind of occupation or
> doubling/doppelgange"r - let's think about *The Man in the High Castle *(the
> TV show at least, for I did not read PKD's book).
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> So, on the one side, the High Castle = the WH; on the other side,
> Sanctuary Cities that the WH tries to turn into Obituary Cities.
>
> I don't know what will be the result of this war. But it's a kind of war,
> right? Maybe Empyre forum could devote a month to that topic: Wars.
>
> My best,
>
> Frédéric
>
> 2017-03-27 20:48 GMT-05:00 Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>:
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>> Sanctuary Cities (apologies if I'm just repeating the obvious)
>>
>> This may be of interest only to US residents, for which apologies.
>> It does give some indication of the brutality of a regime which
>> pays little attention to protest. The result for refugee and
>> immigrant communities - even for families legally in the country -
>> has been devastating.
>>
>> http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/27/politics/jeff-sessions-trump-s
>> anctuary-cities/
>> http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/25/politics/sanctuary-cities-explained/
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>> (Sending it out because we're in a sanctuary city and state; both are
>> poor, and, being pessimistic, I'm waiting for the resulting havoc. What's
>> so strange, uncanny, for so many of us, is the speed with which the tenor
>> of the US has changed; we've gone from more traditional protests (against
>> police brutality, military engagement, women's rights, BLM) to protests
>> based on a different atmosphere - that of overt racist acts, and potential
>> or real federal attacks on the poor, Blacks, Latinos, the environment etc.
>> - attacks from the very institutions that are "supposed" to protect us. So
>> in a very real sense, many of us feel that this is no longer "our" country
>> or "our" government, but a kind of occupation or doubling/doppelganger, and
>> that's hard to come to grips with. I'm speaking of course from two
>> positions - that of being white, middle-class, and "educated," and that of
>> being Jewish and "senior," and witnessing, for the first time in years,
>> acts of anti-semitism on the increase, even in Rhode Island (I won't even
>> describe the destructive ageism I'm dealing with). So I'm privileged on the
>> whole, not having to deal with what a friend here calls micro- aggressions
>> against minorities - micro-aggressions that occur constantly, that have
>> only increased as well. On a plane of sociality/communality, the US is a
>> foreign country for many of us, located nowhere, going nowhere but towards
>> a brutal and militarist future, at least for the time-being.)
>>
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