MEDIA INDIGENA 211

The United States of Plunder / MI 211 

ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE: 

The ‘Looting’ of America. As if a pandemic wasn’t enough to contend with, disturbing video came out on social media this week of blatant police brutality against a black resident of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, video that has sparked outrage in streets across the US. Outrage met with tear gas, smoke bombs and rubber bullets. Meanwhile, as can happen in such highly-charged, volatile situations, property has been damaged, even destroyed. 

People vs. property: guess how the media weighed harms carried out against both in their coverage—or how well their stories convey the role and function policing plays in the everyday lives of black and brown people? Joining host/producer Rick Harp to discuss these questions and more this week were Candis Callison, Associate Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Graduate School of Journalism at UBC, as well as Kim TallBear, associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment.

LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS EPISODE:

• George Floyd killing: two officers involved previously reviewed for use of force The Guardian

• CNN reporter describes 'chaos' at looted Target CNN

• MOA And Other Businesses Close Early, Stores Board Up In Anticipation Of Continuing Protests WCCO

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz puts armed ‘reopen’ protests in their historical context High Country News

• Video creator 'USA Latest' Facebook Page

• "Found the looters" @haymarketbooks

• "This looting by billionaires is what sets fires and burns down stores. You do not get one without the other." @KeeangaYamahtta

• “In the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear?” @TheKingCenter

• "'[ In Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties ]  Mike Davis describes the destruction of property during the Watts Uprising as 'an emotionally infused but *rational* strategy... to force reforms and create a sense of urgency that nonviolent protest had been unable to achieve.'" @NeeedlesEye

• "The 3 [white] terrorists on the left killed a combined killed 38 people & injured 90: Police arrested them alive ..." @QasimRachid

• Northern B.C. woman awarded $55K in RCMP excessive force suit Terrace Standard

• RCMP apologize to Métis man for withholding evidence in wrongful conviction APTN News

• "To all those Canadians smugly thinking [it's] only the US that has rampant racist killings ... 'Man accused of killing two Métis hunters pleads not guilty to second-degree murder'" @SeanCarleton

• "MPD150.com is a coalition of local organizers, artists, researchers working for the abolition of the Minneapolis Police Department..." @CharmaineSChua

• Minneapolis City Council VP Andrea Jenkins: “I am asking my colleagues ... to declare a state of emergency declaring racism as a public health issue. [One which] has infected America for  the past 400 years... " @NBCNews

• No, We Should Not Condemn Uprisings Against Police Murders Like George Floyd’s Jacobin

• "Regis Korchinski-Paquet died last night ... her family says the police pushed her off the balcony to her death ... #JusticeForRegis" @DesmondCole

• The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power Desmond Cole

POST-RECORDING:

• Fired Minneapolis police officer charged with 3rd-degree murder in George Floyd's death CBC News

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