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DESCRIPTION:COIN functions as the underlying logic that intersects with a number of key 
 political realities currently: community policing / police brutality and 
 the prison industrial complex, Global War on Terror, boarder 
 militarization, the NSA / Snowden scandal and government spying, and 
 repression of social movements.  \n\nThis talk will explore the domestic 
 application of counterinsurgency strategy and community policing methods, 
 which are predominantly directed at poor communities of color in the 
 US.\n\nKristian Williams will provide an overview of policing and the 
 domestic application of COIN.  COIN has its origins in police / FBI 
 operations against social movements in the 1960s and 70s as well as various 
 post-Vietnam conflicts.  Drawing on various pieces in the collection and 
 his prior work (in Our Enemies in Blue), Williams will describe how a 
 military logic has been used by police forces and other state apparati over 
 the past three decades.  By extension of Williams’s talk, Kevin Van Meter 
 will explore the currently campaign of repression directed at radical 
 environmentalists, animal rights activists, and others, referred to as the 
 “Green Scare”.  Drawing on a particular case from 2001-2004, Van Meter 
 will describe this cycle of government repression and the efforts of 
 activists to combat it.\n\n\nJenny Esquivel has worked with Sacramento 
 Prisoner Support since 2006. She has gone on tour multiple times speaking 
 about Eric McDavid’s case, en- trapment, and political prisoners. She is 
 a co-author of the book Government Repression, Prisoner Support (P&L Press, 
 2012).\n\nEvan Tucker has done support work for political prisoners and is 
 a co-author\nof the book Government Repression, Prisoner Support (P & L 
 Press, 2012).\n\nKevin Van Meter is a member of the Team Colors Collective 
 and has just re- located to Minneapolis, Minnesota, to complete his 
 doctorate in Geography. Van Meter, with Team Colors, co-edited the 
 collection Uses of a Whirlwind (AK Press, 2010) and co-authored Winds from 
 below (Team Colors / Eberhardt Press, 2010). Van Meter’s collaborative 
 and single-authored work has appeared in various radical 
 publications.\n\nKristian Williams is a member of the Committee Against 
 Political Repression, in Portland, Oregon. He is also the author of Our 
 Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (Soft Skull, 2004; South End, 
 2007), American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination (South End, 
 2006), and Hurt: Notes on Torture in a Modern Democracy (Microcosm, 2012). 
 In 2009 he received a grant from the Institute for Anarchist Studies to 
 support his research on Oscar Wilde’s anarchism. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/07/24/18740341.php
SUMMARY:Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency
LOCATION:La Pena Cultural Center (across the street from The Long Haul 
 Infoshop)\n3105 Shattuck Ave  Berkeley, CA 94705\n(510) 849-2568
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/07/24/18740341.php
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