Bulletins and News Discussion from January 20th to January 26th, 2025 - Viva La Resistance

Image is of many Hamas soldiers supervising the handing over of Israeli hostages to cars heading out of the Gaza Strip.

After 15 months of genocide - and resistance to it - the Israeli regime realized that they could not win a military victory against Hamas, and were forced to sign a humiliating ceasefire in order to get their hostages returned.

With much of Syria under the control of Al-Qaeda, and an increasing level of covert infiltration into Lebanon, the crisis in the Middle East is not over, and we may still be in its beginning stages, as the center of hegemony continues its gradual shift away from the United States. Their navy, once considered the best in the world, is likely also not very happy about their ships and aircraft carriers being forced to retreat by Yemen, one of the poorest countries; and all eyes are on Iran, who has, over the last year and a half, demonstrated a newfound confidence and strength to directly strike Israel.

The recovery for Gaza will take, at a minimum, decades; it could indeed never fully recovery to even how it was before, considering it is not in Israel's interests to see their concentration camps recover. But Hamas has proven to be steadfast and the tunnel network has proven its resilience, despite facing some of the most powerful conventional bombing in history. This shows that Palestine's liberation is a when, not an if; and hopefully a much sooner "when" than expected before October 7th.

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Just so we're on the same page - we're 100% watching the start of american labor camps for illegal immigrants, right?
When do you'll think we'll get the first official facility? Will it be state run or private? Will it stem from prisons, due to that new law (accused of robbery in the last 10 years)?
- I think it will just subsume into the current prison industrial slave labor cohort. The application of that labor will probably broaden to fill the gaps.
  I mean there was a law in the bush era in one of the southern states going after undocumented laborers and agri businesses had to shut it down. Forget where it was. But it was dog catching the car moment that hit the wall of capital interests.
- i’ve been seeing it as a justification for massively expanding deportations. While imprisoning large numbers of people who lack formal protections would probably extend the lifespan of capitalism and the current settler system in the USA, there aren’t enough prison spaces for the citizen prisoners. There also isn’t enough bourgeois unity on the issue. A little over a decade ago, California was federally court ordered to shed prisoners because they had people triple bunked. Prison populations are only down like 30,000 since then, and i don’t believe we have built any new prisons. One of the many hellish propositions my neighbors agreed to last November was bringing back three strike laws for theft and drug offenses. i was able to successfully persuade “conservative” people that the prop was a bad idea because we would need to foot the bill for multiple new jails.
  i understand that in many parts of USamerica there is a long history of using incarcerated slave labor for agriculture. In California, it’s not that i think any of the government officials are like, morally opposed to it, it just doesn’t make sense logistically. We are already going to be stuffing the jails full of shoplifters and narcotics possessors. What’s more, things like picking strawberries and pruning grapes are actually highly skilled tasks. Like, where i live grows a lot of strawberries, and they have tried to build robot pickers (not delicate enough to grab, too much dirt in the field) and training/ hiring US citizens who were veterans or unhoused or ex-felons (they were too slow/ couldn’t hack it). Now part of that is because pickers are overworked and underpaid, but you cannot pull someone off the street and then expect them to be able to fill ten flats an hour.
  The only Ag Barons who would agree to have their disposable labor that can’t ask for help from local services because of language barriers and government indifference taken away in exchange for government supervised contractors with paperwork would have to be so racist they couldn’t understand profit. It’ll be a battle between the people who actually run farms or otherwise abuse migrant labor and people who delusionally think that the slur-named deportation operation from the 50s could be pulled off again tomorrow.
- Legal as well

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