"The beginning of the uprisings marked a historic moment in the US. It was a complete cultural shift from below, as you say, where people found their power against the police and acted firmly and unrelentingly against the police and icons of capitalism. It was a movement particularly driven by black and brown youth, who disproportionately feel the wrath of the armed forces. It was unapologetic and passionate. In New York, to see in the neighborhoods kids who had been directly targeted, harassed, beaten, and family members killed, directly confronting without fear, the very police who had done these things, was an incredible sight."

Police violence in the US is one of the basic pillars of a state that frantically attacks in order to maintain its power. Having caused and being involved inhundreds of imperialistic war operations, the US state bombs civilians andloots the capitalist periphery, terrorizing the planet but also its own inhabitants and, more intensively, the black, the indigenous and poor populations.

Η εξέγερση τελικά, είναι η εκρηκτική ανάπτυξη των θετικότερων κοινωνικών ταξικών και κινηματικών χαρακτηριστικών κι ενώ ξεσπά σαν κεραυνός, το ηλεκτρικό φορτίο της συσσωρεύεται μέσα από την πύκνωση και τον πολλαπλασιασμό των νεφών της κοινωνικής ανταρσίας

Σαν σήμερα, την 1η Αυγούστου του 2017, δολοφονείται ο αναρχικός αγωνιστής Santiago Maldonado από το κράτος της Αργεντινής, ενώ αγωνιζόταν αλληλέγγυος στις κινητοποιήσεις των ιθαγενών Mapuche, ενάντια στην υφαρπαγή και λεηλασία της γης τους από την Benetton.