There's a word for what we are watching. Political thinker Achille Mbembe calls it "Necropolitics" ... the tactics a state deploys to end certain populations with minimal resistance, reducing human beings to bare life, to bodies that exist only as tools for someone else's benefit.
Within this framework, he names "Death Worlds": entire spaces dedicated to death, to the stripping of meaning from human existence.
In this video, Tokata Iron Eyes, spokesperson for the Lakota People's Law Project, breaks down Necropolitics and Death Worlds ... and why this framework is essential to understanding the intersections of everything happening right now: the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the systemic erasure of Native women and girls, children in ICE detention facilities writing letters to the world begging for help, and the Epstein files and the girls taken from war-torn countries and sold to the powerful.
The complete degradation of our quality of life is not a result of a lack of effort or hard work. It is the result of decisions made by very powerful people ... the billionaire class, political officials ... who have deemed certain bodies expendable.
Name what we are seeing.
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