#Riot Control System Market Report

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"By this time the focus of radical protest had shifted back to Winnipeg. Elated at the success of the Walker Theatre event, the Socialist Party of Canada decided to stage another meeting in the Prairie capital, this time at the Majestic Theatre on Portage Avenue on January 10, 1919. At this meeting the rhetoric was a little bolder, the challenge to the government a little more flagrant. Speakers George Armstrong, Dick Johns, Bob Russell, and Sam Blumenberg gave what amounted to tutorials on socialist economics. Armstrong, who traced his family ancestry back to the United Empire Loyalists in Ontario, explained the theory of surplus value and warned his listeners that, in the name of post-war reconstruction, they would be asked to support all kinds of policies that were not in their interest. “We ask you to support only such schemes as will abolish all exploitation of the working class,” he said, “which means the destruction of all property rights in the wealth of society.” Bob Russell argued that any attempt to remodel the old economy was doomed to failure. What was needed was a thorough overhaul of the system, putting the working class, “the only useful class,” in control. Sam Blumenberg continued this attack on the “reconstruction gang.” Disparaging all politicians in the mainstream political parties as “tricksters and pirates,” Blumenberg shouted:

They tell you that we are going to have prosperity, but let me tell you that capitalist prosperity means poverty for the working class.

Sgt-Major Langdale was in the crowd again, along with another undercover spy, Detective Sergeant Albert Reames of the Mounted Police. Testifying in court some months later, Reames described the series of inflammatory speeches warning workers to prepare themselves for the outbreak of imminent social revolution in Canada. The speeches, Reames said, “had a very bad effect” on the many returned veterans in the city. Authorities would use his report to make a direct connection between the Majestic Theatre meeting and the events which followed, claiming, in effect, that the citizens of Winnipeg had no alternative but to take the law into their own hands to preserve their community from a supposed Red revolution.

A follow-up meeting was scheduled, again for the Majestic, but tension in the city had become so palpable that the owner of the theatre convinced the organizers to cancel. Instead people gathered outside in Market Square next to City Hall on Sunday, January 26, to listen to more speakers. According to the Manitoba Free Press it was “a revolutionary socialist meeting” with a heavy component of “aliens.” Resentment at German and Slavic immigrants—still called “enemy aliens” even though the war had been over since the previous November—had been building for months. This, combined with the high level of unemployment in the city and general antipathy toward socialist ideas, was enough to touch off an ugly explosion.

A mob consisting principally of several hundred returned soldiers appeared in the Square and began to rough up some of the “aliens.” The veterans decided to march to the headquarters of the Socialist Party, above Jimmy’s Restaurant on Smith Street. They barged up the stairs and into the office where they tossed furniture, books, and bundles of literature into the street and set them afire, along with a large red flag. Detective Reames followed along taking notes as the veterans headed off toward the North End. “The crowd then went up into Main Street,” he reported, where it “beat up several foreigners, or apparent foreigners” before attacking the German Club. “The windows were smashed at this place,” continued Reames, “and a piano came out of the second-floor window which was promptly jumped upon and smashed up and pieces taken away as souvenirs by the crowd.” Looting and rioting continued into the evening with the police observing the vandalism but not making any attempt to stop it. At ten o’clock, about 2,500 veterans gathered outside the police station demanding to know if any of their number had been arrested. When police Chief Donald MacPherson assured them that they had not, the veterans moved off and gradually dispersed.

The next day anti-alien demonstrations flared up again. A group of what the Free Press called “returned men and sympathizers” appeared at the gates of the Swift Canadian meat-packing plant demanding that all foreign workers be fired and replaced by “white labor.” The men were in an ugly mood, and they were threatening to break into the plant to remove the “aliens” when Mayor Charles Gray drove up in the company of the senior military commander in the district, General H.D.B. Ketchen. Instead of arresting the veterans, who were, after all, threatening to destroy private property and assault innocent citizens, Ketchen and Gray promised to give them everything they wanted if they would only disperse quietly. “I am an Englishman,” Gray told the crowd, “and I want you men to give British fair play. We want to get the aliens out and I am with you in that, but let us do it constitutionally. Go back to the city and show them [the employer] that you will give them a chance to get rid of the aliens and if they don’t do it then is the time for reckoning. […] You know I am with you boys.” Having forced the army to capitulate, the mob was feeling its oats. It moved leisurely through the city, smashing windows, looting bars and restaurants, and beating up supposed “aliens” and forcing them to kiss the Union Jack. The police followed along in a paddy wagon but did not intervene.

Through all of this, known radicals kept a low profile—wisely so, if the case of Sam Blumenberg was an example. About 100 of the protestors showed up at his dry-cleaning business on Portage Avenue. Frustrated at not finding him there, they broke his windows and went on their way. Later in the evening, they returned and completely smashed up the premises.

Official response to these two days of unprecedented mob violence was muted, to say the least. No charges were laid; it was almost as if the victims were felt to be at fault. The riots were seen by some as a necessary preemptive strike against the forces of Red revolution. Editorializing against unrestricted free speech, the Winnipeg Telegram warned that “with such a creed, treason becomes a mere name; loyalty a meaningless word. Anarchy may run riot. Bloodshed, theft, incendiarism and every form of vice may openly be advocated.” Defenders of chaos should not have free speech, declared the Telegram. It was to teach this lesson that the riots began. Other observers chuckled at the “hijinks” in Winnipeg. “The Bolshevist in that city overreached himself, didn’t he?” wrote the editor of the Ottawa Journal, E. Norman Smith, in a letter to Ernest Chambers. “By shooting off his mouth he called attention to the fact that he existed in the city. Hereafter, perhaps some of these foreigners will learn to lie low and keep their mouths shut.” For its part, the government of Manitoba responded by establishing an Alien Investigation Board that made it more difficult for immigrant workers to get, or keep, a job."

- Daniel Francis, Seeing Reds: the Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada’s First War on Terror. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011. p. 70-72.

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Events 11.17 (after 1950)

1950 – Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama. 1950 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 89 relating to the Palestine Question is adopted. 1953 – The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland. 1957 – Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities. 1962 – President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region. 1967 – Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking…We are making progress." 1968 – British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service. 1968 – Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S. 1969 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides. 1970 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre. 1970 – Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft. 1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook." 1973 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. 1983 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico. 1986 – The flight crew of Japan Airlines Flight 1628 are involved in a UFO sighting incident while flying over Alaska. 1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29). 1990 – Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts. 1993 – United States House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement. 1993 – In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup. 1997 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre. 2000 – A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years. 2000 – Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru. 2003 – Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s tenure as the governor of California began. 2012 – At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt. 2013 – Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia. 2013 – A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes. 2019 – The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.

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CONFIDENTIAL REPORT

TO: The Defense RE: URGENT: MULTI-DISTRICT INSURRECTION – SITUATION DETERIORATING

DISTRICT 3 Rebel forces hijacked Capitol surveillance systems; real-time tracking of Peacekeeper deployments disrupted. EMP attacks disabled riot suppression units, leaving our forces blind and immobilized.Broadcast intercept, hacked Capitol news networks airing anti-Capitol propaganda in District 3.

DISTRICT 6 Targeted demolitions collapse three major railways, severing inter-district supply routes. Armed groups hijack cargo transports, stripping vehicles for weapons and district-wide work stoppage declared, labor forces refusing to maintain Capitol-controlled infrastructure.

DISTRICT 8 Coordinated arson attacks on Capitol-run textile mills, 80% loss in uniform and supply production. Unauthorized insignias appear, first confirmed district-wide rebel faction declaring autonomy.

DISTRICT 11 Rebel forces overtake grain storage facilities, cutting off Capitol food supply lines, Capitol-appointed foremen either missing or confirmed dead. Unauthorized convoys moving grain supplies toward undisclosed rebel locations

CAPITOL SECURITY COMPROMISED 1) 28% increase in public distrust, caught citizens protesting outside the Ministry of Defense. 2) Increased black-market activity with unauthorized firearms traced back to stolen Peacekeeper caches. 3) Suspected insurgent sympathizers within administrative ranks within the Defense.

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Market Insights for Directed Energy Weapons: Key Trends and Strategic Opportunities

Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) have emerged as a pivotal element in modern warfare. As nations grapple with increasing security threats, from missile attacks to unmanned aerial vehicle incursions, the demand for advanced defense mechanisms has soared. Directed Energy Weapons, leveraging technologies such as high-energy lasers and electromagnetic pulses, promise to revolutionize military operations. This article delves into the market statistics, size, trends, and industry dynamics driving the growth of DEWs, with a focus on how research and development (R&D) is shaping this promising sector.

Market Statistics and Market Size

The Directed Energy Weapons market has witnessed remarkable growth in recent years. According to a report by MarketsandMarkets, the market size was valued at approximately USD 5.3 billion in 2022. This figure is projected to skyrocket to USD 12.9 billion by 2027, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.6% from 2022 to 2027. This impressive growth is indicative of the rising demand for DEWs across various military platforms, including air, land, and sea.

The North American region dominates the market, primarily due to substantial investments in defense technologies by the United States. The US Department of Defense (DoD) has been at the forefront of incorporating DEW systems into its arsenal, exemplified by projects like the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD) and the Airborne Laser (ABL). Meanwhile, Europe is also making strides in DEW development, with companies like BAE Systems and Thales Group investing heavily in research and development.

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Market Trends

Several key trends are influencing the DEW market:

Advancements in Laser Technology: High-energy lasers (HEL) are at the forefront of DEW technology. Recent advancements have enabled lasers to become more compact, efficient, and powerful, making them suitable for various military applications. Lockheed Martin's development of a 300-kilowatt laser, capable of neutralizing drones and other aerial threats, underscores the technological progress in this field.

Increasing Integration with Existing Defense Systems: One significant trend is the integration of DEWs with existing military platforms. This integration allows for seamless operation and enhances the capabilities of traditional weapons. The US Navy's deployment of the Laser Weapon System (LaWS) aboard the USS Ponce is a prime example of such integration, demonstrating how DEWs can augment conventional naval firepower.

Focus on Non-Lethal Applications: While DEWs are primarily associated with military applications, there is growing interest in non-lethal uses, such as crowd control and anti-riot measures. The Active Denial System (ADS), which uses millimeter-wave technology to induce an intolerable heating sensation, exemplifies the potential for non-lethal applications of DEWs.

Geopolitical Tensions and Defense Spending: Geopolitical tensions in regions like the Asia-Pacific are driving increased defense spending, thereby fueling the demand for DEWs. Countries such as China, India, and South Korea are investing heavily in DEW technologies to bolster their defense capabilities amid regional security concerns.

Industry Dynamics

The Directed Energy Weapons industry is characterized by intense competition and innovation. Key players such as Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Northrop Grumman Corporation, The Boeing Company, and Lockheed Martin Corporation are at the forefront of DEW Industry development. These companies have adopted various strategies, including mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, and R&D investments, to strengthen their market position.

R&D Investments: Research and development play a crucial role in advancing DEW technologies. Companies are investing significant resources to enhance the efficiency, range, and power of DEWs. Raytheon's ongoing research into high-energy lasers aims to increase the power output and operational range of its DEW systems, thereby providing a competitive edge in the market.

Collaborative Efforts: Collaboration between defense companies and military organizations is a common trend in the industry. The US DoD frequently collaborates with private firms to accelerate the development and deployment of DEWs. Such partnerships enable the sharing of expertise and resources, leading to faster technological advancements.

Challenges in Integration: Despite the promising outlook, integrating DEWs with existing defense systems poses significant challenges. Compatibility issues, different communication protocols, and the need for specialized training are some of the hurdles that must be overcome. Addressing these challenges requires close collaboration between defense manufacturers and military organizations.

The Role of R&D in Shaping the Future

Research and development are pivotal in driving the evolution of Directed Energy Weapons. As technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of what is possible, R&D efforts focus on overcoming existing limitations and unlocking new capabilities. Here are some key areas where R&D is making a significant impact:

Improving System Reliability: One of the primary goals of R&D in DEWs is to enhance system reliability. Directed energy weapons must operate flawlessly under various conditions, from extreme temperatures to adverse weather. Researchers are developing robust systems that can withstand these challenges, ensuring consistent performance in real-world scenarios.

Enhancing Power and Range: Increasing the power output and operational range of DEWs is a critical focus of R&D efforts. By boosting the energy levels of laser and electromagnetic systems, researchers aim to extend the range at which DEWs can effectively neutralize threats. This enhancement is crucial for applications such as missile defense, where long-range engagement is essential.

Miniaturization and Portability: Another significant area of research is the miniaturization of DEW systems. Compact and portable DEWs offer greater flexibility and can be deployed on a wider range of platforms, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and ground-based vehicles. Advancements in materials science and electronics are facilitating the development of smaller, more efficient DEW systems.

Addressing Safety and Ethical Concerns: R&D efforts are also directed toward addressing safety and ethical concerns associated with DEWs. As these weapons have the potential to cause unintended harm, researchers are exploring ways to mitigate collateral damage and ensure compliance with international laws and regulations.

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Case Studies of Recent Advancements

Lockheed Martin's High-Energy Laser (HEL) Systems: Lockheed Martin has been a leader in developing high-energy laser systems for military applications. In recent years, the company has achieved significant milestones, including the successful testing of a 300-kilowatt laser designed for the US Army. This powerful laser can engage multiple targets simultaneously, demonstrating its effectiveness in countering drone swarms and other aerial threats.

Raytheon's Active Denial System (ADS): Raytheon's ADS is a non-lethal DEW that uses millimeter-wave technology to disperse crowds and control riots. The system emits a focused beam that creates an intolerable heating sensation on the skin, causing individuals to move away from the source. Raytheon's ongoing research aims to enhance the system's range and effectiveness while addressing ethical concerns.

Northrop Grumman's Electromagnetic Railgun: Northrop Grumman is pioneering the development of electromagnetic railguns, which use electromagnetic forces to launch projectiles at hypersonic speeds. These railguns offer a cost-effective and precise means of engaging targets at long distances. R&D efforts focus on improving the system's power output and integration with existing naval platforms.

Challenges in Integrating Legacy Systems

While the promise of Directed Energy Weapons is undeniable, integrating these advanced systems with existing military infrastructure presents formidable challenges. Here are some of the key obstacles faced by defense organizations:

Compatibility Issues: Many legacy systems were not designed with DEW integration in mind, leading to compatibility issues. These systems may use different communication protocols or lack the necessary interfaces to connect with DEWs, requiring extensive modifications and upgrades.

Training and Skill Development: Operating DEWs requires specialized training and expertise. Military personnel must be trained to handle these advanced systems effectively, which can be time-consuming and costly. Additionally, maintaining a skilled workforce capable of troubleshooting and repairing DEWs is essential for their successful deployment.

Resource Allocation: Integrating DEWs with existing systems demands significant resources, both in terms of finances and manpower. Defense organizations must carefully allocate their resources to balance the development of new technologies with the maintenance and enhancement of legacy systems.

Regulatory Compliance: DEWs must adhere to strict regulatory standards, including safety protocols and international laws. Ensuring compliance while integrating these systems with existing infrastructure can be a complex and challenging process.

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Future Directions for R&D

As the Directed Energy Weapons market continues to evolve, several key areas are expected to shape the future of R&D efforts:

Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence: The integration of quantum computing and artificial intelligence (AI) into DEW systems holds significant promise. Quantum computing can enhance the processing capabilities of DEWs, enabling faster target acquisition and engagement. AI algorithms can optimize system performance and facilitate autonomous decision-making, reducing the burden on human operators.

Materials Science and Nanotechnology: Advances in materials science and nanotechnology are expected to play a crucial role in DEW development. Researchers are exploring new materials that offer improved thermal management, higher energy densities, and enhanced durability, contributing to more efficient and reliable DEW systems.

Space-Based DEW Systems: The deployment of DEWs in space is a burgeoning area of research. Space-based DEW systems can provide global coverage and offer unique advantages, such as the ability to engage targets from orbit. R&D efforts are focused on overcoming the technical challenges associated with deploying DEWs in the harsh environment of space.

Hybrid Systems and Multi-Domain Integration: Future R&D efforts are likely to explore hybrid DEW systems that combine multiple technologies, such as lasers and electromagnetic pulses, to enhance versatility and effectiveness. Additionally, the integration of DEWs across multiple domains, including land, sea, air, and space, will be a key focus area.

Directed Energy Weapons are at the forefront of military innovation, offering unprecedented capabilities and transforming the landscape of modern warfare. As the market continues to grow, driven by technological advancements and increasing defense spending, R&D efforts will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of DEWs. By addressing existing challenges and unlocking new possibilities, R&D will enable the development of more powerful, reliable, and versatile DEW systems, ensuring their continued relevance in the evolving defense landscape.

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Directed Energy Weapons Market is Dazzling Worldwide and Forecast to 2030 | GQ Research

The Directed Energy Weapons market is set to witness remarkable growth, as indicated by recent market analysis conducted by GQ Research. In 2023, the global Directed Energy Weapons market showcased a significant presence, boasting a valuation of US  6.33 Billion. This underscores the substantial demand for Directed Energy Weapons technology and its widespread adoption across various industries.

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Projected Growth: Projections suggest that the Directed Energy Weapons market will continue its upward trajectory, with a projected value of US$ 17.02 Billion by 2030. This growth is expected to be driven by technological advancements, increasing consumer demand, and expanding application areas.

Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR): The forecast period anticipates a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 19.45 %, reflecting a steady and robust growth rate for the Directed Energy Weapons market over the coming years.

Technology Adoption:

Rapid adoption of directed energy weapons (DEWs) for defense and security applications.

Integration of laser, microwave, and particle beam technologies for precise targeting and neutralization of threats.

Development of mobile and airborne DEW platforms for versatility and operational flexibility.

Application Diversity:

Deployment in military applications including missile defense, counter-drone systems, and anti-ship weaponry.

Use in law enforcement for riot control, perimeter security, and non-lethal incapacitation of targets.

Potential applications in space debris removal and satellite defense.

Consumer Preferences:

Reliability and effectiveness in neutralizing threats with minimal collateral damage.

Scalability and adaptability to address evolving security challenges.

Cost-effectiveness compared to traditional kinetic weapons systems.

Compliance with international regulations and ethical considerations.

Technological Advancements:

Advancements in beam control and power scaling for increased range and lethality.

Development of compact and lightweight DEW systems for integration onto various platforms.

Enhancement of target acquisition and tracking capabilities through sensor fusion and AI algorithms.

Market Competition:

Intense competition among defense contractors and technology companies.

Differentiation through innovation in beam control, power generation, and thermal management.

Collaboration with government agencies and military branches to develop and field DEW systems.

Focus on export opportunities and international partnerships to expand market reach.

Environmental Considerations:

Minimization of environmental impact through precise targeting and reduced collateral damage.

Compliance with international laws and regulations regarding the use of directed energy weapons.

Consideration of environmental factors such as weather conditions and atmospheric effects on weapon performance.

Ethical considerations regarding the escalation of conflicts and the potential for unintended consequences.

Regional Dynamics: Different regions may exhibit varying growth rates and adoption patterns influenced by factors such as consumer preferences, technological infrastructure and regulatory frameworks.

Key players in the industry include:

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Raytheon Technologies Corporation

Northrop Grumman Corporation

Thales Group

BAE Systems PLC

The BOEING Company

Textron Inc.

Rheinmetall AG

L3Harris Technologies Inc.

RAFAEL Advanced Defence Systems Ltd.

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Smoke Grenade Market Trends, Growth, Analysis and Forecast 2024-2032

IMARC Group's report titled "Smoke Grenade Market Report by Product (Burst Smoke Grenade, Wire Pull Smoke Grenade, Micro Smoke Grenade, and Others), Application (Signaling, Screening and Obscuring, Riot Control, and Others), End User (Military and Defense, Law Enforcement, and Others), and Region 2024-2032", offers a comprehensive analysis of the industry, which comprises insights on the global smoke grenade market trends. The global market size reached US$ 511.3 Million in 2023. Looking forward, IMARC Group expects the market to reach US$ 795.6 Million by 2032, exhibiting a growth rate (CAGR) of 4.9% during 2024-2032.

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Factors Affecting the Growth of the Smoke Grenade Industry:

Military and Defense Applications:

The rising adoption of smoke grenades in military and defense applications is propelling the growth of the market. In addition, smoke grenades are essential tools for modern armed forces, offering tactical advantages in combat situations. These devices provide instant smoke screens that obscure enemy visibility, allowing troops to maneuver safely and create diversionary tactics. Besides this, the increasing need for enhanced battlefield survivability is bolstering the market growth. Furthermore, key players are developing advanced smoke grenade systems to maintain a competitive edge in warfare, which is impelling the market growth.

Law Enforcement:

Law enforcement agencies are increasingly adopting smoke grenades, especially in riot control and hostage rescue situations. They provide a non-lethal means of controlling crowds and detaining suspects while minimizing risks to both officers and civilians. In line with this, smoke grenades can disorient criminals and create cover during high-stress operations, enhancing the effectiveness of law enforcement efforts. Furthermore, the rising reliance on smoke grenades by police, special weapons and tactics (SWAT) teams, and other law enforcement entities to maintain enhanced safety is supporting the growth of the market.

Rising Focus on Training and Simulation:

The increasing focus on training and simulation activities is impelling the market growth. In addition, realistic training is crucial to prepare personnel for high-pressure scenarios. Besides this, smoke grenades play a pivotal role in creating authentic training environments, allowing trainees to experience smoke-filled and chaotic situations safely. These training exercises help personnel develop critical skills, adapt to adverse conditions, and make informed decisions under stress. Furthermore, the growing demand for smoke grenades that replicate real-world scenarios is positively influencing the market.

Leading Companies Operating in the Global Smoke Grenade Industry:

3rd Light Ltd.

Centanex Ltd.

Combined Systems Inc.

Daekwang Chemical Co. Ltd.

Defense Technology LLC (Safariland LLC)

Nammo AS

Nonlethal Technologies Inc.

Rheinmetall AG, Sport Smoke LLC

Smoke Grenade Market Report Segmentation:

By Product:

Burst Smoke Grenade

Wire Pull Smoke Grenade

Micro Smoke Grenade

Others

Burst smoke grenade represents the largest segment as it is designed for rapid activation.   

By Application:

Signaling

Screening and Obscuring

Riot Control

Others

Signaling holds the biggest market share due to the rising focus on emergency situations.  

By End User:

Military and Defense

Law Enforcement

Others

Military and defense account for the largest market share on account of the increasing geopolitical tensions.      

Regional Insights:

North America (United States, Canada)

Asia Pacific (China, Japan, India, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia, Others)

Europe (Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Russia, Others)

Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Others)

Middle East and Africa

North America enjoys the leading position in the smoke grenade market, which can be attributed to the rising investments in advanced equipment and technology.        

Global Smoke Grenade Market Trends:

The increasing demand for smoke grenades in the entertainment industry for special events is bolstering the growth of the market. In addition, smoke grenades are used for visual effects and dramatic purposes in concerts, sports events, and filmmaking. They create captivating visuals, enhance performances, and add excitement to various productions.

Apart from this, the growing development of eco-friendly smoke grenades that have minimal impact on the environment due to the rising awareness among individuals about environmental concerns is offering a positive market outlook.

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Riot Control System Market 2021 | Business Opportunity, Growth Strategies & Forecast Report By 2027

The Global Riot Control System Market Report, in its latest update, highlights the significant impacts and the recent strategical changes under the present socio-economic scenario. The Riot Control System industry growth avenues are deeply supported by exhaustive research by the top analysts of the industry. The report starts with the executive summary, followed by a value chain and marketing channels study. The report then estimates the CAGR and market revenue of the global and regional segments.

Base Year: 2020

Estimated Year: 2021

Forecast Till: 2027

The report classifies the market into different segments based on type and product. These segments are studied in detail, incorporating the market estimates and forecasts at regional and country levels. The segment analysis is helpful in understanding the growth areas and potential opportunities of the market.

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A special section is dedicated to the analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the growth of the Riot Control System market. The impact is closely studied in terms of production, import, export, and supply.

The report covers the complete competitive landscape of the Worldwide Riot Control System market with company profiles of key players such as:

Amtec Less Lethal Systems Inc

Armament Systems & Procedures Inc.

BAE Systems, PLC.

Combined Systems, Inc.

Condor Non-Lethal Technologies

Dae-Kwang Chemical Co. Ltd.

Eagle Industries, Inc.

Lamperd Less Lethal Inc.

Lrad Corporation

Nonlethal Technologies, Inc.

Raytheon Company

Taser International, Inc.

The Safariland Groupv

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Offensive Weapons

Direct Contact Weapons

Gases & Sprays

Ammunitions

Explosives

Directed Energy Weapons

Immobilizers

Crowd Control Weapons

Defensive Weapons

Personal Protective Equipment

Surveillance Systems (Drones)

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Electromagnetic & Sonic Weapons

Kinetic Impact Weapons

Chemical Agents

Others

Riot Control System Market Analysis by End User:

Law Enforcement Agencies

Police Forces

Special Forces

First Responders

Private Security

Intelligence Agency

Military

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North America (USA, Canada, and Mexico)

Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Russia, Spain, Rest of Europe)

Asia Pacific (China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, South-East Asia, Rest of Asia-Pacific)

Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Rest of Latin America)

The Middle East and Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, South Africa, Rest of the Middle East and Africa)

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[brookstonalmanac]

Events 11.17 (after 1950)

1950 – Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama. 1950 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 89 relating to the Palestine Question is adopted. 1953 – The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, County Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland. 1957 – Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities. 1962 – President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region. 1967 – Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking…We are making progress." 1968 – British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service. 1968 – Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S. 1969 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides. 1970 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre. 1970 – Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft. 1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook." 1973 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. 1983 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico. 1986 – The flight crew of Japan Airlines Flight 1628 are involved in a UFO sighting incident while flying over Alaska. 1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29). 1990 – Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts. 1993 – United States House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement. 1993 – In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup. 1997 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre. 2000 – A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years. 2000 – Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru. 2003 – Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s tenure as the governor of California began. 2012 – At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt. 2013 – Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia. 2013 – A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes. 2019 – The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.

[iliyad]

everything that has happened in 2020, in case you forgot

because it’s been a long year. counts up to december 20. i tried to get in as much as i could, but there will still be some things missing, because it's been a long year.

january (timeframes will be rough)

australian bush fires

persian gulf crisis

taal volcano eruption

impeachment trial of donald trump

covid-19 pandemic what else is there to say?

the united kingdom’s withdrawal from the european union

february

delhi riots

collapse of malaysia’s coalition government

stock market crash

luxembourg made public transport free

conditional peace agreement between the united states and the taliban

march

afghanistan war crimes inquiry authorised to proceed

tokyo summer olympics postponed to 2021

north macedonia joins nato

russia-saudi arabia oil price war

april

united states designates a white supremacist group as a terrorist group for the first time

opec and allies agree to cut oil production by 9.7 million barrels a day

united states suspends funding to the world health organisation

nova scotia attacks

israeli politicians agree to form a unity government

iran deploys first military satellite

king salman declares people will not be executed for crimes committed as minors

the pentagon officially releases three ufo videos

colombia formalises its membership of the oecd

may

venezuelan dissidents and american private military attempt to infiltrate venezuela and remove president maduro from office

scientists discover parasitic microbe blocking mosquitos from carrying malaria

first black hole discovered in a star system visible to the naked eye

styrene gas leak in india

cross-border clash at the nantha lu crossing between chinese and indian soldiers

konarak vessel incident

fossil analysis indicates modern humans may have arrived in europe thousands of years earlier than thought

maternity hospital stormed by gunmen in afghanistan

discovery of millipede fossil as the world's oldest-known land animal dating c.425 million years

east africa floods

palestine terminates all agreements with israel and the united states after israel plans to annex the jordan valley

cyclone amphan

united states announces withdrawal from open skies treaty

mining company rio tinto destroys sacred aboriginal caves at juukan gorge in australia

george floyd is killed, beginning mass global protests against police racism and brutality

costa rica becomes first central american country to legalise same-sex marriage

chinese government votes for legislation granting powers to suppress democracy movement in hong kong

rwandan court sentences former mayor to life imprisonment for role in rwandan genocide

first crewed spacex flight is launched

june

state of emergency declared by russia after 20 thousand tons of oil leaks into ambarnaya river

libya’s government claims control of tripoli

turkish and iranian forces begin air and artillery strikes against kurdish forces in iraqi kurdistan

north korea demolishes kaesong’s inter-korean liaison office

solar eclipse

7.5 magnitude earthquake in oaxaca, mexico

historic three-party coalition government formed in ireland

china passes hong kong national security law

july

russian voters support constitutional amendment allowing vladimir putin to seek two further six-year terms

landslide at jade mine in myanmar

bulgarian protests against boyko borisov’s government

mass graves uncovered in burkina faso believed to be the result of extrajudicial executions by government forces

turkish president orders the hagia sophia in istanbul to be reverted from a museum to a mosque

china floods

twitter accounts of prominent politicians, ceos and celebrities hacked in bitcoin scam

flooding of the brahmaputra river

nasa launches mars 2020 rover mission

august

barakah nuclear power plant in the uae becomes first commercial nuclear power station in the arab states

beirut explosions

belarusian protests sparked by controversial presidential election

vladimir putin announces russia’s approval of world’s first covid-19 vaccine

israel and uae agree to normalise relations

stranded japanese ship breaks in mauritius and spills one thousand tonnes of oil into the ocean

coup d'état takes place in mali

africa is declared free of wild polio

amazon ceo jeff bezos becomes first person ever with a net worth exceeding us$200 billion

hurricane laura

japanese prime minister shinzo abe resigns after seven years

september

an agreement is signed to transition sudan into a secular state

largest find of mammoth skeletons at construction site for airport in mexico city

pope benedict xvi becomes longest-living pope

kosovo and serbia announce normalisation of economic relations

bahrain and israel agree to normalise relations

typhoon haishen

announcement of detection of phosphine in venus’ atmosphere

first discovery of perfectly preserved cave bear remains in siberia, believed to be 22 thousand - 39 thousand years old

venezuelan government is accused of crimes against humanity by human rights council

france, germany, and the united kingdom reject china’s claims to the south china sea

oldest known copy of any work by william shakespeare, a 1634 edition of the two noble kinsman, is found in spain

documents of the financial crimes enforcement network are released, detailing suspicious transations valued at over us$2 trillion

microsoft buys zenimax media in the biggest and most expensive takover in the video game industry

deadly clashes erupt between armenian and azerbaijani forces in nagorno-karabakh

october

the european union launches legal action against the united kingdom for overriding sections of the brexit withdrawal agreement

new caledonia votes against independence from france

mass protests break out in kyrgyzstan against controversial parliamentary election

thai protests

new zealand prime minister jacinda ardern's labour party wins second term in office by a landslide, gaining the first parliamentary majority since introduction of new voting system in the early 90s

nasa's osiris-rex spacecraft becomes their first probe to retrieve samples from an asteroid

geneva consensus declaration on women's health and strengthening families is signed by 34 countries

falkland islands declared free of land mines

israel and sudan agree to normalise relations

nasa confirms existence of molecular water on the moon

7.0 aegean sea earthquake

typhoon goni

november

amhara women, children and elderly killed in ethiopia

tumblr melts down over supernatural ship “destiel” (dean winchester and castiel), causing this site to crash several times

united states election concludes joe biden as president of the united states, STATES FLIP DATA

hurricane eta

united states exits the paris climate change accord

armenia and azerbaijan sign ceasefire agreement

hong kong pro-democracy lawmakers resign en masse

nasa and spacex launch to the international space station

hurricane iota

brereton report into australian war crimes during the war in afghanistan released

indian farmers’ protest

iranian nuclear scientist mohsen fakhrizadeh is assassinated

koshobe massacre

lunar eclipse

protein folding is solved

december

arecibo telescope collapses

the united kingdom approves covid-19 vaccine

three activists jailed in hong kong for part in democracy protests

united nations commission on narcotic drugs votes to remove cannabis from dangerous drugs list

united states announces withdrawal from somali civil war

russia begins mass vaccination against covid-19

venezuelan parliamentary election

the united kingdom begins mass vaccination against covid-19

report into the christchurch mosque shootings released

nepal and china officially agree on height of mount everest

israel and morocco normalise relations

end of nicolas sarkozy corruption trial in france

the european union agrees to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55% over the next decade

bhutan and israel normalise relations

the international criminal court accuses the philippines of crimes against humanity in its war on drugs

the united states accuses switzerland and vietnam of currency manipulation

a new, highly-infectious strain of covid-19 begins to spread through the united kingdom and europe

[mostlysignssomeportents]

All the books I reviewed in 2020

I know it's a little late for Xmas shipping, but I'm FINALLY getting around to publishing a roundup of all the books I reviewed in 2019!

Part 1: FICTION FOR ADULTS

I. AGENCY by William Gibson: A sequel to The Peripheral for the Trump years, about seductive bitterness of imagined alternate timelines, filled with cyberpunk cool and action.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-01-24/agency-william-gibson

II. RIOT BABY by Tochi Onyebuchi: An incandescent Afrofuturist novella that connects the Rodney King uprising with contemporary struggle, pitting supernatural powers against dire politics.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/23/riot-baby/#Tochi-Onyebuchi

III. OR WHAT YOU WILL by Jo Walton: A metafiction about the desperate attempt of a character to pull his writer into a fictional world to save the both from human mortality.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/07/little-bro-with-snowden/#metafiction

IV. A BEAUTIFULLY FOOLISH ENDEAVOR by Hank Green: Sequel to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - a madcap and sometimes brutal tale of social media influencers, alien invaders, disinformation, and runaway capitalism.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/08/absolutely-remarkable-thing/#carls

V. FAILED STATE by Christopher Brown: A legal eco-thriller that imagines the end of capitalism without imagining the end of the world - cyberpunk meets ecotopianism, with anarchist jurisdictions, show-trials, and rewilding.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/12/failed-state/#chris-brown

VI. AFTERLAND by Lauren Beukes: Eerily well-timed road-trip novel set after a prostate-cancer plague wipes out nearly every man on Earth, except for the protagonist's teenaged son, who is now being hunted by the (all-female) US government.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/afterland/#XY

VII. BALLISTIC KISS by Richard Kadrey: Sandman Slim confronts the worst demons of all - his own trauma and self-doubt.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/25/anxietypunk/#bk

VIII. SQUEEZE ME by Carl Hiaasen: Hiaasen was writing comedic whodunnits about improbable Florida Man types decades before the memes, and his Mar-a-Lago gator plague novel is a hectic and hilarious tale for our times.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/florida-man/#disappearing-act

VIII. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson: KSR says it's his last novel and I say it's the book he's been training to write all his life. If you like your climate fiction wrenching but still uplifting enough to move you to tears...

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/03/ministry-for-the-future/#ksr

IX. SET MY HEART TO FIVE by Simon Stephenson: An absurdist robot-romp in the mold of Kurt Vonnegut about a robot who catches the disease of emotions and tries to treat it by moving to Hollywood to write screenplays about robots.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/01/cant-pay-wont-pay/#robot-rights

Part 2: NONFICTION FOR ADULTS

I. A PUBLIC SERVICE by Tim Schwartz: An incredibly practical, detailed guide for would-be whistleblowers (and journalists who work with them) to staying safe while spilling the beans.

https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/08/a-public-service-a-comprehensive-comprehensible-guide-to-leaking-documents-to-journalists-and-public-service-groups-without-getting-caught/

II. THE MONSTERS KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING by Keith Ammann: A sourcebook for RPG game-masters explaining how different kinds of monsters can use a variety of combat tactics that add depth, texture (and challenge) to your games.

https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/10/the-monsters-know-what-theyre-doing-an-rpg-sourcebook-for-dms-who-want-to-imbue-monsters-with-deep-smart-tactics/

III. SNOWDEN'S BOX by Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge: The incredible, true tale of how trust among friends allowed Snowden's leaks to safely transit from his home in Hawai'i to the hands of Laura Poitras and the journalists who reported the story.

https://memex.craphound.com/2020/03/31/snowdens-box-the-incredible-illuminating-story-of-the-journey-of-snowdens-hard-drive/

III. ABOLISH SILICON VALLEY by Wendy Liu: A personal journey from a fully bought-in believer in Silicon Valley's meritocracy to a ferocious critic who demands tech to serve humanity, not a human race in service to the tech industry.

https://memex.craphound.com/2020/04/14/abolish-silicon-valley-memoir-of-a-driven-startup-founder-who-became-an-anti-capitalist-activist/

IV. THE CASE FOR A JOB GUARANTEE by Pavlina Tcherneva: A fierce little book setting out an economic program to rescue the nation and the planet from a system that insists we can't even hope for a better world.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/22/jobs-guarantee/#job-guarantee

VII. SUBPRIME ATTENTION CRISIS by Tim Hwang: What's worse than having our lies destroyed by surveillance to manipulate us with ads? Having our lives destroyed by surveillance in order to fuel a fraudulent market in ad-based manipulation.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/florida-man/#wannamakers-ghost

VIII. MONOPOLIES SUCK by Sally Hubbard: There are plenty of *great* books about monopolies and the resurgence in antitrust, but Hubbard's is the most practical, providing the reader with excellent advice for actually *doing something* about monopolism.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/peads-r-us/#sally-hubbard

IX. BREAK 'EM UP by Zephyr Teachout: The most lucid, readable, infuriating, energizing book on the rise of monopolies. Teachout never loses sight of the systemic nature of the problem, even as she uses individual stories to tell the tale.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#break-em-up

X. BOUNDLESS REALM by Fox Nolte: There has never been a better book about the Haunted Mansion (indeed, this is one of the best books ever written about environmental design in general). Nolte goes *way* beyond trite wisdom about "storytelling."

https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/09/boundless-realm/#fuxxfur

PART 3: GRAPHIC NOVELS

I. YEAR OF THE RABBIT by Tean Viasna: A graphic memoir of Viasna's harrowing boyhood during the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. It's a tale we've rarely seen through the eyes of a child, and brilliantly realized.

https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/22/year-of-the-rabbit-a-graphic-novel-memoir-of-one-familys-life-under-the-khmer-rouge/

II. FEMALE FURIES by @misscecil​: Castellucci uses an obscure and anachronistic all-woman cast of DC Universe b-characters to tell an incredible, smart, pitiless story about #MeToo, comics, solidarity and betrayal.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/female-furies/#apokolips-now

III. LONELINESS OF THE LONG-DISTANCE CARTOONIST by Adrian Tomine: A memoir of intensely felt impostor syndrome, a forceful reminder that comparison is the thief of joy - and that the traits that keep an artist going at first go toxic over time.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/21/the-thief-of-joy/#tomine

IV. CONSTITUTION ILLUSTRATED by R Sikoryak: The Trump years were an unhappy crash-course in Constitutional law, but Sikoryak's genius adaptation of the Constitution in the style of dozens of cartoonists is a pure delight.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/27/ip/#r-sikoryak

PART 4: KIDS AND YA

I. SEND PICS by Lauren McLaughlin: A YA novel that's a thrilling revenge-play about "revenge porn," a cyber-heist novel that's also a sneaky and forceful book about teen girls' sexuality.

https://memex.craphound.com/2020/04/21/send-pics-ripping-brutal-amazing-novel-about-teens-sextortion-revenge-and-justice/

II. IMPOSSIBLE MUSIC by Sean Williams: A YA novel about a music-obsessed kid who loses his hearing is the frame for a book about ability, adaptation, music theory, family, Deafness and what dreams are really for.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/30/deafhood/#impossible-music

III. HARD WIRED by Len Vlahos: A 15 year old discovers the truth behind bizarre dysfunction of the world around him: he's an AI in a sim, and the guy he thinks of as his long-dead father is actually the research scientists who created him.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/31/ai-rights-now/#len-vlahos

IV. ADVENTURES OF A DWERGISH GIRL, by Daniel Pinkwater: Like every Pinkwater novel, it defies description, it is brilliant, and it is his best to date. Ghosts, Revolutionary War fleshbots, papaya juice, and supernatural beings from the Catskills!

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/25/dwergish-girl/#you-are-a-pickle

V. WITCH by Finbar Hawkins: A beautiful debut novel about a pair of 17th century sisters who avenge themselves against the witchfinders that murdered their mother. A superbly told historical.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/01/the-years-of-repair/#witch

FINALLY: I published *four* books in 2020!

I. POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER: My debut picture book, about a little girl who turns her toys into weapons and torments her parents by hunting monsters all night, with wonderful art by Matt Rockefeller:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626723627

II. LITTLE BROTHER/HOMELAND: My multibestselling YA novels were reissued last summer in a gorgeous package with a (fantastic) new introduction by Snowden.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250774583

III. ATTACK SURFACE: A standalone, adult sequel to Little Brother and Homeland. The New York Times called it "vocal and unflinching" and "ultimately optimistic"; the Washington Post called it a "riveting techno-thriller."

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250757531

IV. HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: A long pamphlet/short book that makes the case that Big Tech manipulates us and spies on us because they have monopolies - not because they've developed devastating, data-driven mind-control.

https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

[comrade-meow]

Prostitution is Sexual Violence

The phenomenal worldwide spurt in prostitution, sex trafficking and sex tourism particularly in the third world countries in the wake of globalisation and economic liberalisation has generated increasing interest and international debate on the question in the past two decades or so. While some organisations activists and feminist groups are demanding the abolition of prostitution and sex trade, some others are aggressively campaigning for the legalisation and recognition of prostitution as a profession. The advocates for legalisation demand that it be give the status of an industry and the sex must be considered similar to the any type of work and prostitutes be considered as sex workers.

The issue has assumed importance in the context with even the ILO calling for economic recognition of prostitution as legitimate work.

In India too, several NGOs had taken up the issue; some have held a conference of sex workers as in Kolkata in 1997, ‘98 and again 2001 and put forth arguments demanding legalisation. A few have opposed the demand for legalisation as they felt it would only legitimise the violence on women and the sale of human bodies.

What should be the standpoint of the proletariat with regard to the question of legalisation of prostitution? Would legalisation of the profession improve the position of the prostitutes? What are the root causes behind the phenomena of prostitution? And why has it taken a phenomenal leap in recent years? What is the correct solution to the problem? Let us deal these questions.

A brief historical background

Historically, the origins of prostitution can be traced to the emergence of the class society and the so-called civilisation when, for the first time, woman become subordinated to man. Lack of property rights, segregation from social production and division of labour along gender lines have made the woman powerless and totally dependent on men from childhood to old age. In a class-divided society, economic and social power was naturally in the hands of the class that owned the chief means of production.

The vast majority of the non-propertied classes had to live by selling their labour. Their body has been the only asset these non-owning classes possessed and it is only by pressing their body into service in exchange for a wage or remuneration in kind that their very physical survival could be ensured. Prostitution too arises from the compulsions in a class divided society to sell one’s body for the sake of one’s subsistence. Unlike men of the labouring classes women do not have the opportunities to take part in similar productive activities due to relations of patriarchy enforced by society. Thus, since each class is internally divided along gender lines, and the power accrues to the man of each class due to relations of patriarchy, women are rendered powerless and socially and economically vulnerable.

Thus even when women enjoy the benefits and privileges, of the class they belong to, they do not have an independent status of their own. Their class status is accrued only by virtue of their attachments to the men of that class, either as daughters, wives, sisters or mothers. Once the support of the men of her family is withdrawn, she becomes propertyless even if she belongs to the middle class, thereby leading to a life of insecurity and even poverty. This social and economic vulnerability of women arising out of gender inequalities in class societies plays a significant role in sustaining prostitution.

Women with no assets and few options have to rely on the sale of their bodies to maintain themselves and their dependents. Those who have been forced into prostitution are generally the destitute, the deprived sections of the society, belonging to the lower castes, and the tribals. The simple fact that hardly 1%of the property in the world is owned by women today shows the acute vulnerability and powerlessness of women.

Prostitution is created and sustained by the male dominated society where male sexuality and masculinity are socially constructed by patriarchy and female sexuality is controlled and denigrated. Masculinity is proved by man’s ability to access several women. Within feudal society, prostitution was restricted, to be found for example around temples, institutionalised in the form of the devadasi system. The development of market forces transformed prostitution into a trade. Prostitution centres grew in port cities; around the colonies of migrant male workers; and around cantonment and military barracks.

Natural calamities such as famines, floods, earthquakes and epidemics or social and political upheavals such as wars led to large-scale displacement of populations and to a phenomenal increase in the number of prostitutes as more and more uprooted, hapless women were left with no other options of livelihood.

Thus the colonial era gave an impetus to the sex trade by pushing millions of women to sell their bodies in the areas where migrant male work force or military troops were located. But it is the development strategies pursued by the various governments of the Third World countries in the neo-colonial phase that has seen it grow by heaps and bounds. Big dams and mining and industrial projects, break up of subsistence economies by modern technology leading to pauperisation of entire communities, cyclones, floods and families resulting from indiscriminate deforestation and so on, has uprooted millions of people from their homes and a large number of women have been forced to seek a refuge in prostitution to eke out a living.

For instance, there are 2-3 million prostitutes in 400 red light areas in India (Indian Express 6/10/2000). 30% of prostitutes in the country are children whose numbers are increasing by 8 to 10% annually. Almost 80% of the prostitutes belong to the lower castes and tribals who are forced into the profession for sheer survival. Among others a considerable section of women are forced into prostitution due to patriarchal oppression in the family and society victims of rape by the male chauvinists, deception by lovers, victims of rape in communal riots and atrocities by the police and the state’s armed forces and so on. It is estimated that every year the sex traffickers in connivance with the police bring around 100,000 poverty stricken Nepalese women and children to Indian brothels from Nepalese villages.

Globalisation and Sex Tourism

The single most important factor, however, is the promotion of the sex-tourism in Third World countries. Tourism in Third World countries, particularly in Asia, become a growth industry in the 1970s and in vigorously promoted as a development strategy by international aid agents like the World Bank, IMF and USAID. Between 1960 and 1979, tourist arrivals in South East Asia increased 25-fold. The revenues accrued to these countries on account of tourism was £3 billion in 1979. Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore of South East Asia and Kenya, Tunisia, Mexico, Srilanka, Peru, countries of the Caribbean etc., have made tourism one of their main areas of production. Asian, African and Latin American women are the main export product who attract male tourists from Japan, the US and Europe. For instance, as many as 50,000 women and children from Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe are brought to the US under false pretexts and are forced to work as prostitutes or abused labourers or servants, according to a CIA report.

According to a report about 2 to 3 lakh women are working in the sex trade in Bangkok, camouflaged as massage parlours and hotels. Another estimate puts the figure even higher – about 10% of Bangkok’s women are believed to be engaged in sex trade despite the official ban on prostitution. In Manila, the capital city of the Philippines, the number of prostitutes is estimated to be around 1,00,000.

Burgeoning flesh trade leading to a veritable explosion in numbers worldwide in the past two decades is the fall out of the policies of globalisation and economic liberalisation adopted by most countries of the world. The development strategies pursued by the South East Asian countries during the 1970s have been repeated in India during the 1990s. Three major reasons can be cited for the quantitative and qualitative jump in the sex trade.

Firstly, the sex trade is now organised on a global basis just as any other multinational enterprise. It has become a transnational industry. It is one of the most developed and specialised industries that offers a wide range of services to the customers, and has most innovative market strategies to attract clients all over the world. The principal players and beneficiaries of the sex industry are cohesive and organised. The intricate web of actors involved in the sex trade today includes nor just the prostitutes and the client, but an entire syndicate consisting of the pimps, the brothel owners, the police, the politicians and the local doctors. The principal actors connected to the sex trade are not confined by narrow national or territorial boundaries in the context of a globalised world. They operate both legally as well as clandestinely and it is believed that the profits according to the organisations of sex-industry currently equal those flowing out of the global illegal trade in arms and narcotics.Moreover like any other multinational enterprises, such as the tourism industry, entertainment industry, travel and transportation industry, international media industry, under ground narcotics and crime industry and so on.

Thus the magnitude, expanse, organisation, role of capital accumulation and range of market strategies employed to sell sexual services make the contemporary global sex industry qualitatively different from the old practice of prostitution and sex trade.

The second factor, which makes sex trade qualitatively different today, is that it has become a chosen development strategy by several Third World countries. The World Bank, the IMF, the Asian Development Bank and several other imperialist aid agencies have encouraged the development of tourism and entertainment industry in Third World countries with the aim of meeting their balance of payments and debit deficits. As a result, sex tourism and sex entertainment have developed at an amazing speed and have acquired national and international legitimacy under globalisation as never before.

The third factor that has led to the burgeoning of the flesh trade is the neo-colonial exploitation of the cheap raw materials and resources of Third World by imperialist capital. The countries, which have undergone structural adjustments under the dictates of World Bank and the IMF, are forced to export their raw materials and cheap resources. Women and children constitute an important component of the resources of Third World countries and hence are considered a prime export item for the "development" of these countries. Women and children, whose labour is exploited beyond acceptable human rights standards, have become one of the prime tools for capitalist accumulation. The migration and traffic in women from areas of low concentration of capital to high concentration areas i.e., from rural to urban and from the less developed areas of Asia, Africa and Latin America (and now Eastern Europe in) to the industrial countries.

This has become possible due to massive population and development of large sections of the population in the Third World countries who are left with no other options than to sell their bodies and labour in order to eke out a living. And it is the women and children who form the principal composite of these newly deprived and dispossessed sections due to globalisation. International capital through the vast media network at its disposal – the print and electronic media, the internet etc – is able to mould the minds of the people living in an already patriarchal, male-dominated world in favour of commodification of the female body from the crudest to the most sophisticated of ways. Capitalism had transformed relations between human beings into callous cash relationships; it had commodified every aspect of human life including human body parts, female reproductive work and virtually every thing on the earth. Capitalism has no ethics other than amassing profits. It had converted woman into a sex object and placed her in the market for sale. Under globalisation, this had reached levels unknown in human history due to the sheer magnitude and power of the principal players and wrought havoc on the lives of the vast majority of the wretched of the earth.

We thus find from the foregoing that today prostitution has been transformed into global flesh trade – a multinational or transnational enterprise that fetches enormous profits to the governments of several countries, to the multinational syndicate of capitalists, pimps, mafia gangsters, politicians and the police while the women are helpless victims in this bizarre drama. The annual turnover of prostitution business worldwide runs to billions of dollars. No wonder, the imperialist agencies, the NGOs funded by these agencies, the governments of some of the countries, and the media controlled by the imperialist sharks, have begun canvassing for legalisation of prostitution. Of course, all in the name of the welfare of the prostitutes. Quite a few progressive and liberal democratic organisations and individuals also sincerely endorse the stand for legalisation from a humanitarian standpoint. . Seeing the way the existing laws in India, the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act, 1986 and provisions of the IPC (1860) are framed and utilised they argue that the oppression of prostitutes can be done away with. They think that by legalising prostitution, women professing the trade will have all the legal rights like any other industrial workers and will be free from the harassment of the pimps, police and the clients.

Let us now analyse the arguments put forth for the legalisation of prostitution and whose interests these actually serve.

Arguments in favour of legalisation

Vesya Anyay Mukti Parishad (Kolkata) which is an association of prostitutes that had come into existence during the latter half of the 90s, is among the most vocal proponents of legalisation. The following are a few of its arguments. "Prostitution is a way of life like any other. It is not created for the benefit of the men rather it is primarily for the women who live off it. Women in prostitution make money out of the sex and are the breadwinners of their families.

"We believe that we are more empowered than most women within male-dominated patriarchal structure. The relationships we share with the men from our families are more honest and equal because the purdah of double standards is not necessary.

"Economic independence from men is a reality that we enjoy with pride and dignity. Brothel owners, goons, the police and the self-appointed crusaders of morality in society harass us, try to curb our independence and are forever trying to douse our spirit.

"We demand the eradication of all laws concerning prostitution which are oppressive and help in further criminalizing the trade.

"We believe that we challenge and undermine structures of power by using a part of our womanhood – our sexuality as a source of our power and income.

It wants to distinguish between "trafficking, which is criminal issue and adult prostitution."

"We believe that making money from sex is not selling a part of our body which is in no way different from selling our brains or physical labour.

"We protest against a society that deems our work contribution as less prestigious than other traditional forms of work.

"We believe that despite living within a capitalist patriarchal society and having the experienced the freedom of living outside the patriarchal system, it is almost impossible for us to contemplate entering such a system with its inherent double standard, lopsided value system and inequalities."

One would be surprised to see the above statements coming from an organisation of the prostitutes themselves. It appears as if the prostitutes have chosen to be what they are by free choice, that choosing is a form of rebellion against the patriarchal system and oppression in the family and society at large. Through these arguments not only are they juxtaposing the individual right with the structural circumstances but they are also reducing human rights to the rights of the individual. The arguments not only justify the profession but also try to lure more and more women into the flesh trade in the name of women’s liberation. These so-called associations of sex-workers are obviously organised by NGOs or individuals with imperative trends and seek to give the sex trade a further boost in the name of voluntary choice.

The stark reality is that the overwhelming majority of the prostitutes are there not by choice but due to destitution, deprivation, displacement ostracisation and deception; that many have been victims of sexual assault either at home or work place or in the street;that quite a few of them have been bought from starving parents by unscrupulous pimps even before they reach their puberty, administered steroids like Benetradin to make malnourished children artificially plumpy just as they fatten cattle and chicken to yield more meat; that some of them are made into ‘servants of god’ (devadasi) against the law and the will of the young girls and packed off to brothels to serve as slaves to sex-starved, sadistic clients; that given an alternative option for decent livelihood there would be hardly any one left in the profession. The question for free choice does not arise. Here it is to be noted that the emphasis is being given to free choice because they want to make a distinction between becoming a prostitute willingly and trafficking. The main campaign against trafficking is being led by the needs of the imperialist western countries where there is a shortage of white prostitutes. In the US for example too, over 70 % of the prostitutes are non-white.

In fact this argument is being promoted to make it easy to legalise the import of prostitutes to the imperialist countries and other centres of tourism.

Sangram (Sangli-Maharashtra), a voluntary organisation working among prostitutes, is even more aggressive in championing the cause of the profession.

"In the work place, she is more than equal to the male client and very often controls the conditions of the transaction. Women ‘keep’ many malaks and refuse to be treated as the exclusive property of the man. Here, women in prostitution are shown to "liberated" and as working independently on her own terms. It is shown as an alternative for women to free themselves from patriarchal stranglehold.

Citing the powerlessness of women to even retain their names after marriage, Sangram glorifies the ‘Freedom’ that is supposed to be inherent in prostitution.

"In class based and male dominated society, women are forced to occupy a secondary status that is totally male-centred, even the power to name herself is denied to her as, in several parts of the country, she is even given a new first name of her marriage, forcing her to discard her old identity and adopt a new one.

"Women in prostitution are in different position. Even if a woman in prostitution opts to stay with one man and conduct her ‘dhandha’ (profession) she does not change her name. She continues to occupy her own residence and in fact, it is the man who comes to stay with her. In this case, the tables are reversed: it is done on her terms. "Women in prostitution pose tremendous challenge to the family structure, system and its values. They actually challenge patriarchal ‘values’ that govern sexuality

The perverted logic of these apologists for sex trade sees the prostitute as a free and independent agent who controls her body and sexuality and challenges the family and patriarchal values. Contrary to their argument the institution of prostitution is as much a creation of patriarchy as the present-day family and co-exists with it. It is based on the freedom socially available to men but denied to women.

As Engels succinctly put it, it is "the absolute domination of the male over the female sex as the fundamental law of society". She is a victim of patriarchal oppression within the profession. Once a woman enters the trade, there is no way out. She is completely at the mercy of the sex-starved customer, the pimp and the police. Physical assaults and rapes are a daily occurrence. More than half of the prostituted women in the Third World countries had contracted HIV/AIDs. A 1985 Canadian report on the sex industry reported that the women in prostitution in that country suffer mortality rate 40 times the national average. It could be even worse in countries like India. All this proves that the argument that once prostitution is legalized it can be more effectively regulated making it safe for all those involved, that the spread of HIV can be slowed, that sex workers can have access to health and so on, are sheer fraud. The fact is that all forms of sexual commodification, whether legalised or not, lead to an increase in the level of abusive and exploitative activity.

The interest of the State in permitting legalisation is not the prostitute and her rights but to check the spread of sexually transmitted deceases. It involves heavy regulation of prostitution through a whole host of zoning and licensing laws. Zoning segregates the prostitutes into a separate locality and their civil liberties are restricted outside the specified zone. Licensing means issue of licenses, registration and the disbursement of health cards to the women. Legalisation makes it mandatory for the women to undergo medical check-ups regularly or face imprisonment.

Legalising prostitution is legalising violence:To describe prostitution as sex work and a prostitute as a sex worker means to give legitimacy to sexual exploitation of helpless women and children. It means ignoring the basic factors, which push women and children into prostitution such as poverty, violence and inequalities. It tries to make the profession look dignified and as a ‘job like any other job’.

It is the organised commercial sex industry that is the staunchest advocate for legalisation of prostitution on the plea that ‘sex work’ is viable work – a job like any other job. Creating the nation that sexual exploitation and abuse are ‘work’ createsa shield to the industry from the critics and will multiply their profits by boosting the sex trade through legalisation.

By considering women in prostitution as workers, pimps as businessmen, and the buyers as customers and thereby giving the entire sex industry recognition as an economic sector, the governments are planning to abdicate all responsibilities for providing decent employment to women. They are thus pushing more and more women into sex trade by creating the notion that sex work is like any other work.

Legalisation of prostitution is not a solution because legalisation implies men’s self evident right to be customers. Accepting services offered through a normal job is neither violent nor abusive. Legalising it as a normal occupation would be an acceptance of the division of labour, which men have created. A division, where women’s real occupational choices are far narrower than men’s. Legalisation will not remove the harmful effects suffered by the women. Women will still be forced to protect themselves against a massive invasion of strange men, as well as the physical violence.

Legalisation means position of regulation by the State to ensure the continuation and perpetuation of prostitution. It implies that they have to pay taxes, i.e., the prostitute needs to serve more customers to get the money needed. Legalisation means that more men will become customers, and more women are needed as prostitutes, and more women, especially women in poverty, will be forced into prostitution. Legalising prostitution will only increase the chances of exploitation. The experiences of the countries where prostitution was legalised also show how this had given big boost to the trade and had increased sexual abuse. For instance, in Australia and in some states in the US where legalisation was implemented, it was found that there was an alarming increase in the number of illegal brothels too along with an increase in the legal trade.

Commercial sexual exploitation devalues the lives of all women and girls by promoting misogynistic beliefs and attitudes among the males. It teaches the males that female bodies are sexual merchandise to be traded, used and discarded, and consequently, it aggravates gender inequality in all areas of society. It leads to a spurt in acts of sexual violence and harassment against women in the work place and in the domestic life. It violates human rights of all women and children whose bodies are reduced to sexual commodities to be bought and sold in the market.

The so-called safe sex that is said to emanate from legalisation and guaranteeing the rights of the prostitutes is a myth. It ignores the inherent power dynamics of sexual exploitation and that the sexually exploited women or child has no other option than to acquiese to the customer’s demands since she is not in a position to demand the usage of condoms by the customer. Any resistance means more violence.

Trying to make a distinction between prostitutions by choice or consent and forced prostitution or trafficking which all the champions of porstitutes’ cause have been trying to do, is an exercise in futility since in practice it is extremely difficult to prove cases of forced prostitution. The traffickers and pimps can easily conceal evidence of coercion and manufacture evidence of consent from the prostitutes themselves.There are two important international human rights conventions that address the question of prostitutes and trafficking in women: the convention on the Traffic in persons and the exploitation of the prostitution and of others, and the Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1949. But these conventions, despite the stringent clauses against pimps, procurers and traffickers, have no enforcement mechanisms and have not been ratified by many countries. And as we have seen, it is almost impossible to get evidence from the sexually abused women and children given the power of the sex industry managers.

And now, burying these conventions, the ILO has called for the economic recognition of prostitutes as legitimate work in its controversial report of 1998.

We must reject all arguments for legalisation of prostitution and the notion that engaging in sex trade and selling town’s body for the sexual gratification of others in exchange for money is work.

Legalisation of the sex trade is vigorously advocated by the imperialists, by imperialist sponsored NGOs and individuals and by the Third World governments, only in order to preserve the institutions of prostitution and thereby serve the imperialist interests in commodification of women.

Prostitution is violence against women. It is an insult to the self-respect of women, violation of their basic human rights. It is criminal to call violence and sexual abuse against women as work. It is criminal to call the sale of one’s body for the sexual gratification of others as work. It is criminal and callous on the part of governments to abdicate responsibility of providing decent employment to women and children and pushing them into the sex trade in the name of legalisation of prostitution.

Our demands should be to abolish prostitution and trafficking in women and children, provide gainful employment to all those engaged in the sex trade and punish those responsible for encouraging the sex trade and indulging in any form of discrimination against women.

We must mobilise the women who are engaged in Prostitution against the State demanding employment while fighting against all forms of oppression and harassment by pimps, traffickers and the police.

We must educate the women caught in the vicious web of Prostitution that it is only by dismantling this exploitative system based on class and gender inequalities and the worst form of patriarchal control that they can be free, independent and in a position to determine their destiny.

-  Prostitution is Sexual Violence, Women in the Chinese Revolution

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Neocolonialism and Indigenous Communities in the Americas

Through the lens of neocolonialism, it is important to point out that this form of colonialism is mostly dependent on cultural forces and ideas in order to maintain the power and influence of white settlers (or even non-white settlers that have access to a lot of power, money, and influence; corporate capitalists, basically).

neocolonialism: a variant of colonialism which does not rely on physical force. Rather, it uses cultural and market influences to create resistances against decolonization and enforce integration into a core imperialist economy (globalization); the use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries, especially former dependencies. (The Red Nation, Oxford Languages) [for a more expansive definition of neocolonialism and it's characteristics, please check out my other blog post here]

I would say that some of the largest of neocolonial influences are the systems and/or institutions that embrace capitalism (specifically racial capitalism), resource exploitation, labor exploitation (that happen as a result of racial capitalism), and the persisting influence of the Christian religion via religious institutions (like the Catholic Church and other religious schools). Neocolonialism intersects quite literally with the structure of the prison industrial complex (but I will talk about that a bit at the end of this blog post and write a whole blog post dedicated to those specific intersections). It is also important to note that neocolonialism argues that the systems of the colonial era are internalized in our bodies. In order for these systems to continue to function, these institutions must work to internalize these cultural forces/ideas (like basically low key brain-washing to be honest) that affect our self-concept, the relationship with our bodies, and our access to resources.

Capitalism, labor exploitation, and parallels today from the "Colonial" era

There is a connection between how labor exploitation plays out today and the exploitative history of slavery during the colonial era, a lot of it is apparent in various industries (like the fashion/textile industry, prison labor, etc.) But in this blog post I'm going to mostly talk about the exploitative labor practices of the Hollywood/film industry and how they exploit indigenous communities through labor and the use of their land. I will also be talking about the capitalization of other natural resources such as water, which is a huge problem indigenous communities are facing today.

An example of the exploitative labor practices in the film industry can be found through the analysis of the film Even the Rain. In Fabrizio Cilento's article "Even the Rain: A Confluence of Cinematic and Historical Temporalities, Cilento breaks down how the film "takes a metacinematic approach to the the story of a Mexican film crew in Bolivia shooting an historic drama on Christopher Columbus's conquest. With the water riots as a background, Bollaín uses different cinematic styles to establish disturbing parallels between old European imperialism, the recent waves of corporate exploitation,... and the exploitation of Bolivian actors for the benefit of the global film industry.... Bollaín warns that these productions can fall into a colonialist dynamic by reproducing the imbalances between the 'visible' countries in the global film market, and 'invisible' countries whose native actors and visually appealing locations are exploited...." It is important to note how the persistence of capitalism and the exploitation of resources (whether that be land or labor) continue to work against decolonization and creates similar power imbalances between indigenous communities and corporate capitalists that allude to the colonial era. This is also a prime example of how there is a continued rift between the indigenous people's relationship to the land, especially through the limited access to water.

(Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz)

So, I would like to make the point that capitalism and corporate interests play a huge role in working against decolonization. We do not live in a "Postcolonial" world, but rather, a neocolonial world that continues to exploit indigenous communities for their (quite frankly already limited) resources. Today, many Native Americans/Indigenous people have trouble accessing water like the First Nations in Canada, the indigenous tribes in the United States, and indigenous communities in Latin America and the Caribbean (whom are 10 to 25 percent less likely to have access to piped water than the region’s Non-Indigenous populations according to this page/report).

For more in depth discussion about the water and land crises indigenous communities are currently facing. All My Relations podcast, which is a podcast run by Matika Wilbur (a visual storyteller/photographer from the Swinomish and Tulalip peoples of coastal Washington) and Adrienne Keene (a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and blogger that discusses cultural appropriation and stereotypes of Native peoples in fashion, film, music, and other forms of pop culture, and a faculty member in American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University.), have done an episode about this topic named Healing The Land IS Healing Ourselves in which they discuss with Kim Smith (a Diné woman, community organizer, citizen scientist, activist, water protector, entrepreneur, and writer) about indigenous' communities relationship with the land, how it relates to the current environmental and water crisis, and the relationship it has with healing our bodies, in which Smith discusses that "violence on the land is violence on our bodies".

The Catholic Church, colonialism, sexuality, and it's influence today

When we're talking about colonialism in the Americas and the remnants of the colonial era today, the conquest of indigenous sexuality/eroticism via the Catholic Church and the repression of indigenous sexuality has played a huge part in colonialism and is still an issue today that perpetuates the erasure of indigenous identity.

In Sylvia Marcos's article "Indigenous Eroticism and Colonial Morality in Mexico: The Confession Manuals of New Spain" Marcos explains that "....By condemning indigenous erotic practices and imposing unprecedented restraints on them, the missionaries altered the roots of ancient Mexican perceptions of the body and the cosmos...." Marcos further unpacks this through probes of confession manuals from the colonial era "....The confession manuals of Molina, Baptista, Serra, and others seem to indicate the missionaries' uneasiness over the diversity of sexual pleasures enjoyed by the souls in their charge. The priests had to repeatedly describe their limited idea of sexuality so that the vital Indians could understand that what for them was often a link with the gods was, in their new religion, always a sin, fault, or aberration.... The morality of negation and abstinence propagated by the missionaries became one more weapon used in the violent process of violent acculturation...." It's important to point out that the repression of the sexual pleasures of indigenous peoples has contributed to the erasure of indigenous identity, especially since they considered it as a means of connecting to their gods. This was used as a weapon to conquer indigenous people's bodies through shame and disconnection from their bodies and spiritual practices.

This is still an issue that persists today, this article by the Washington Post, talks about how transgender Native Americans experienced disproportionately higher rates of rejection by immediate family. It also talks about the state-sponsored Christian schools that have affected indigenous for generations in the United States. So, basically the expansion of Christianity/Catholicism culturally and institutionally and the repression of indigenous sexuality has contributed to the erasure of indigenous identity. And indigenous people that fall outside of the gender binary experience stigma still to this day, which perpetuates colonialism.

To further build upon this point and how to begin explaining the intersection of this with prison abolition and the experience of being Black and/or BIPOC in an imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchal society, Estelle Ellison, a Black Trans disabled writer and transformative justice practitioner, in their essay "Gender, Time, and Other Methods of Policing the Body", Ellison unpacks the intersections between exploitative racial capitalism and how it connects to gender, time, and sexuality, and also explains how it is connected to being policed through our bodies by stating that "By design, each of us is expected to participate in gendering other people's bodies...." and that "....of all the possible ways that a person may live their life at any given moment, the infinite combinations of features, experiences, aspirations, and expressions; gender attempts to reduce our possible identities by half. But half of infinity is still infinity..." Ellison also talks about how time has been colonized (via capitalism through wage labor) and is "made possible by overlapping systems of white supremacy, anti-blackness, patriarchy, ableism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, exploitation, and countless other forms of oppression..."

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Ellison's analysis of the intersecting systems of neocolonialism explains how these systems are internalized in our bodies and how it is connected to exploitation (whether that be from our bodies some other form under these systems) and that we are being policed through our bodies due to societal, cultural, or institutional pressures, such as the prison industrial complex and the military industrial complex, or I would argue through religious beliefs.

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