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DESCRIPTION:Sun, Jan. 24, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm\nThe US Capitol Building Riot and 
 Its Blowback: \nThe Only Thing Scarier than QAnon Is the Reaction to 
 It\n\nThe right-wing riot at the US Capitol on January 6 was a spectacle, 
 complete with Confederate flags and a QAnon shaman in red-white-and-blue 
 face paint. Some half of the active electorate sympathized with the belief 
 that the 2020 presidential election was a steal. The other half of the 
 active electorate was abhorrent, speaking with semi-religious reverence 
 about the desecration of sacred institutions. The true blue had suspected 
 that the Russians stole the 2016 presidential election and, for the last 
 four years, supported politicians ever vigilant against détente breaking 
 out with the second most powerful nuclear state. \nThe US state has not 
 been meeting the needs of its people, its naked dysfunctionality is bare 
 for all to see, and the ruling circles are experiencing a crisis of 
 legitimacy. The response of the rulers to mass discontent is not to address 
 the root causes but to step up suppression. The aftermath of the events of 
 January 6 has precipitated blowbacks by the ruling elites, such as proposed 
 anti-domestic terrorism measures, in anticipation of popular resistance to 
 the intensifying contradictions of the US imperial project. \n\nOur 
 speaker, Roger D. Harris, will begin the discussion with an abbreviated 
 presentation followed by Q&A and robust group discussion on the many issues 
 raised by the Capitol building riot. Was it a riot or a coup? Was it a trap 
 for Trump and did the police collude with the rioters? What is the danger 
 of fascism? What does the rising right-wing insurgency signify and what 
 should be the response to it? Whither Trump and what about the Squad? And 
 most of all, what do the developments of January 6 and its blowback mean 
 for left organizing and progressive social change?\n\nRoger is a member of 
 the ICSS program committee and the human rights organization, the Task 
 Force on the Americas. Roger recently wrote on the US Capitol riot of 
 January 6: 
 https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/01/13/the-only-thing-scarier-than-qanon-is-the-reaction-to-it/\n\nAlso 
 recommended is the US Peace Council’s statement on the event and its 
 aftermath, People’s Movement is Faced with a Serious Threat (Roger was 
 one of the 
 authors):\nhttp://wpc-in.org/statements/people%E2%80%99s-movement-faced-serious-threat\n\nAdditional 
 recommended reading are the blogs by the inimitable Caitlin Johnstone, who 
 tells us “Modern liberalism is just QAnon for people with diplomas on 
 their walls.” See on today’s topic: 
 \nhttps://caityjohnstone.medium.com/stop-trivializing-the-term-coup-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix-fdc49a95fdd2\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/20/18839475.php
SUMMARY:The US Capitol Building Riot and Its Blowback: Scarier than QAnon?
LOCATION:ZOOM meeting, Log-in info at ICSSMARX.ORG
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/20/18839475.php
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