DeepSummary
The podcast episode features an interview with Musa and Tunde from the Black Alliance for Peace Atlanta chapter. They discuss the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) program, which facilitates training and exchange between U.S. law enforcement agencies and Israeli occupying forces. The guests explain how GILEE is part of a broader effort to militarize and empower U.S. police forces to suppress oppressed communities.
The conversation also covers the construction of 'Cop City,' a proposed militarized police training facility in Atlanta, and its connections to GILEE and the 1033 program, which transfers surplus military equipment to local police departments. The guests highlight how these programs aim to quell uprisings and control marginalized communities, particularly Black and Indigenous populations.
Musa and Tunde provide insights into the corporate funding and support for GILEE and Cop City, as well as the role of the 'Black misleadership class' in enabling these initiatives. They emphasize the need for international solidarity and resistance against imperialism, settler-colonialism, and state violence, calling for a 'Zone of Peace' campaign to expel these forces from the Americas.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- The GILEE program facilitates training exchanges between U.S. law enforcement agencies and Israeli occupying forces, contributing to the militarization of domestic police.
- The proposed 'Cop City' in Atlanta is a militarized police training facility aimed at suppressing uprisings and controlling marginalized communities.
- The 1033 program transfers surplus military equipment to local police departments, further militarizing and empowering them to use excessive force.
- Corporate interests and the 'Black misleadership class' provide funding and support for initiatives like GILEE and Cop City, enabling state violence against oppressed communities.
- The Black Alliance for Peace is advocating for a 'Zone of Peace' campaign across the Americas to resist imperialism, settler-colonialism, and state violence.
- International solidarity and resistance movements are crucial in combating the militarization of police and the suppression of oppressed communities.
- Media conglomerates like the Cox Corporation control the narrative and shape public perception around issues of policing and state violence.
- Addressing the root causes of systemic oppression, such as capitalism and settler-colonialism, is necessary to achieve meaningful change and liberation.
Top Episodes Quotes
- “Gilly arises out of this sentiment of criminalizing homeless people, criminalizing black people, heightened surveillance.“ by Musa
- “Cop City was originally called the Institute of Social justice. And they were probably going to get Tyler Perry to cut the rumor on there or something.“ by Musa
- “We live under information warfare and psychological propaganda. And the Cox foundation, the Cox Corporation, media conglomerate, owns the majority of information coming out from this city, this state that I've lived in my whole life, basically.“ by Musa
- “We're working with formations throughout the Americas to activate, really, the popular movements in our region in support of the 2014 SELAC, or Community of Latin American and Caribbean States call to make the Americas region a zone of peace.“ by Tunde Osazawa
- “Our fight for a zone of peace is an attempt to expel all of these nefarious forces from America's region. And so that means ending Gilead, all the exchange programs, ending the 33 program, really addressing settler colonialism and capitalism in meaningful ways.“ by Tunde Osazawa
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Episode Information
Revolutionary Left Radio
Revolutionary Left Radio
3/13/24
Musa and Tunde from the ATL chapter of the Black Alliance for Peace join Breht to discuss the GILEE Program (Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange) and its implications, the construction of Cop City (and the plans for more), the militarization of police in an era of capitalist and liberal crisis, Israel and its connections to GILEE, the Palestinian Liberation movement, "Black Mecca" and its class contradictions, and what all this means for our near-future...
Check out BAP-Atlanta HERE
Check out the Groundings Podcast HERE
Check out Demilitarize US to Palestine HERE
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Outro Song by Liberation Beats
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