Issued or the fbi issued a report of an anarchist threat because on top of the building there was some graffiti near, i guess, where some of the delegates were and a brick. And so taken alone and even though there were very few protesters there, they issued a report, the media carried it, and it continues to perpetuate negative stereotypes about individuals who are merely, in cases, exercising their First Amendment rights but are being deemed because they question the status quo and corporate or government policies, theyre now called anarchists. But the labeling is very real because, as you know, that can be used to stigmatize, alienate groups and even in the case of Animal Rights activists create federal legislation. The animal enterprise terrorism act that in many cases punishes what we traditionally called civil disobedience and other forms of protests such as leafletting or chalking a sidewalk. They imbue those with sort of evil connotations and higher fines and higher penalties. S
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It almost feels like a cliche question. I think it matters. Why this book . Why now . I wrote a book on this topic turning years ago 20 years ago right after i discovered that the system called the Child Welfare system was a big state apparatus that monitored black communities and take children away. That was right actually i was finishing up my book, killing the blackbody. That book was about the regulation of the black womans child bearing. Mostly, i was focusing of the prosecutions of a black woman. I discovered that thousands of them were having their newborn babies taken from them because of a positive drug test, also because of a myth of the socalled, crack may be, which turns out to be a complete lie. I wanted to document this huge racial inequity in the Child Welfare system. I wrote that book. Then i worked in reaffirming the system reforming the system 20 years after that. We could talk about all of the kind of work that i was doing, training social workers, trying to reform f