As mentioned earlier today, chief adams serves on preservation virginias board of trustees. It was at his urging that this symposium came to be. The chief served as a strong advocate for the federal recognition of the upper mattaponi. In the lead up to 2007, chief adams actively participated in the Jamestown Committee and activities associated. I can say we spent a lot of time together. At various events around the state. His leadership and persistence ensures that commemorative events reflected the respective Indigenous People, their culture, and governments long before the ships arrive to jamestown. He brought the lack of a permanent memorial on virginia capitol grounds, as did other cabinet leaders, to the attention of governor kane, resulting in the formation of the virginia Indian Commemorative commission, in 2018. Chief adams has generously dedicated himself to numerous causes and organizations across the commonwealth. It is an honor to introduce chief adams. Chief adams thank yo
Committee and the and i can say they with spent a lot of time. His lip and persistence their culture and their dove naj before the ships arrived there is a lack on the grounds as well as other tribal leaders, resulting in the formation of the indian congressmentive commission and the dedication of the mantle in 2018. Chief amounts says to have numerous causes across the commonweal commonwealth. Thank you, elizabeth, for those kind words. Good afternoon. It is an honor to be here to to be part of this event. We started this about 15 or 18 months ago when we briefed each other on what moblts were for us to have such an event as this. And were fortunate to be able to have it in this special row indication today. Im going to give you a brief history. As the indians know, and know very well, the doctrine of discovery still very well alive in the United States. And in some case its is very well alive here in virginia. People continue to suffer, it came about from the kat welcome churn much t
So i mean 3 things by Global Police state and the 1st as we see the deepening the and the extension worldwide of transnational systems of social control of repression military zation and warfare all around the world and we see that in order to contain the real and the potential rebellion of what i call in the book surplus humanity and the mess of the downwardly mobile and destabilized and congressionally impoverished global working class and you know very quickly the International Labor organization has already reported that one 3rd of humanity that 2000000000 people in the world are at this point a what i call surplus humanity structurally marginalized unemployed that have to scratch out a living in an informal economy which is deteriorating and collapsing and then another 1300000000 workers in the world work in extremely precarious condition so we have one half of humanity is in this and misery deteriorate i think over the fate youre immediately talking about cost if you went. This p
Police brutality and why it requires endless resistance all those more coming up in todays going underground 1st britain finally faces up to something of the alleged war crimes committed during the socalled troubles today as a Parliamentary Committee releases a report into the legacy of bloodshed in ireland its all been alleged that british Army Techniques employed in illegal british wars like the one in iraq were honed in the new book traces the past present and future of state coersion and its critical connection to Global Capital joining me now from los angeles is the author of the Global Police state Professor William i robinson thank you so much for coming on we got a hint arguably of the Global Police state from wiki leaks they released the iraq war logs 10 years ago this week this month what is the Global Police state the title of your book i mean 3 things by Global Police state but let me put that in context by saying the starting point. For the discussion of Global Police stat
Crisis it only made it much worse and in talking about Global Police state theres 2 dimensions i want to highlight one is the structural technically we call it over accumulation but its a crisis of chronic stagnation in the Global Economy and the 2nd dimension of that crisis is is political this one of state legitimacy and capitalist henschel money so i mean 3 things but Global Police state and the 1st as we see the deepening the and the extension worldwide of transnational systems of social control of repression militarisation and warfare all around the world and we see that in order to contain the real and the potential rebellion of what i call in the book surplus humanity and the mess of the downwardly mobile and destabilized and concrete in the impoverished global working class and you know very quickly the International Labor organization has already reported that one 3rd of humanity that 2000000000 people in. World are at this point a what i call surplus humanity structurally mar