MXGM Self-Defence Manual

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Malcolm X Grassroots Movement March 2013
• The repression and criminalization of dissent. In the wake of the various social
eruptions against austerity like the Wisconsin workers fight back initiative and the
Occupy Movement in 2011, the government responded by intensifying repression in
2012. It smashed the Occupy movements encampments throughout the empire,
infiltrated it on a massive scale, intensified raids in immigrant communities, and
escalated and intensified its “stop and frisk” and racial profiling operations and tactics
in New Afrikan communities 11 .
A Massive Movement to Fight Our Way Out
of this Crisis
These and other factors have created a political and social environment extremely threatening
to New Afrikan people, particularly to our youth. The only way we are going to defend
ourselves against these genocidal challenges is to create a massive social movement. We need
a movement that strategically takes on the systemic oppression and exploitation that prevent
New Afrikans from exercising self-determination and human rights.
In effect, the only way we are going to end this crisis is to fight our way out of it. In order to
fight effectively we have to organize ourselves on a higher level. One of the critical areas
where we have to step up our organizing efforts to be qualitatively more effective is in the
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