The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence

By INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence

A $1.3 trillion undefined, the united states nonprofit area is the world’s 7th biggest financial system. From artwork museums and college hospitals to imagine tanks and church charities, over 1.5 million corporations of fantastic range proportion the tax-exempt 501(c)(3) designation, if little else. Many social justice businesses have joined this global, frequently blunting political ambitions to meet executive and starting place mandates. yet whilst investment shrinks and govt surveillance rises, many activists frequently locate it tricky to visualize movement-building outdoors the nonprofit model.
 
The Revolution aren't Funded gathers unique essays by way of radical activists from worldwide who're seriously rethinking the long term effects of this funding. including educators and nonprofit employees they eventually identify the “nonprofit business complex” and ask tough questions: How did politics form the beginning of the nonprofit version? How does 501(c)(3) prestige permit the nation to co-opt politi-cal activities? Activists or -careerists? How will we fund the stream open air this complicated? pressing and visionary, The Revolution should not Funded is an unbeholden exposé of the “nonprofit commercial complex” and its quietly devastating function in handling dissent.

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In this historical context, COINTELPRO's illegal and unconstitutional abuses of state power, unabashed use of strategic and deadly violence, and development of invasive, terrorizing surveillance technologies might be seen as paradigmatic of the contemporary era's revivified white supremacist hegemony. 5 Contrary to the widespread assumption that COINTELPRO was somehow excessive, episodic, and extraordinary in its deployment of (formally illegal and unconstitutional) state violence, J. Edgar Hoover's venerated racist-state strategy simply reflected the imperative of white civil society's impulse toward self-preservation in this moment.

But the fact remained that those men belonged to the realms of the imagination .... He had been a little worried about them when he too had decided to move to a colony, but no more so than he was about the climate, which might be unfavorable, or the water, which was said to contain too much limestone. Suddenly these men [sic] were no longer a simple component of geographical or historical decor. They assumed a place in his life. 38 >>> THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE FUNDED He cannot even resolve to avoid them.

In significant part through the reorganization of a US state that strategically mobilized around an internally complex, substantively dynamic white supremacist conception of "security from domestic violence," the "law and order" state has materialized on the ground 26 >>> THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE FUNDED and has generated a popular consensus around its modes of dominance: punitive racist criminal justice, paramilitary policing, and strategically deployed domestic warfare regimes have become an American way of life.

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