A Primary Purpose Of The Police Is

Forests Precede Us And Deserts Dog Our Heels.

I Thought A Forest Was Made Up Entirely Of Trees, But Now I Know That The Foundation Lies Below Ground, In The Fungi.

When We Realize The Degree Of Agency We Actually Do Have, We No Longer Have To "hope" At All. We Simply Do The Work.

Where Will You Drive Your Own Picket Stake? Where Will You Choose To Make Your Stand? Give Me A Threshold, A Specific Point At Which You Will Finally Stop Running, At Which You Will Finally Fight Back.

Slavery Was A Central Concern Of Governance Form The Time Of The First Nation-state. The Code Of Hammurabi, The Earliest Know Set Of Laws For Governing An Empire, Prescribed Death For Anyone Who Harbored A Fugitive Or Otherwise Helped A Slave To Escape. The Relationship Between The Law And Bondage Goes Back Even Farther: Indeed, The Oldest Extant Legal Documents Don't Concern The Sale Of Land, Houses, Or Even Animals, But Slaves.