The horrendous situation in Minneapolis is a microcosm of the current unjust economic and political systems of this country. But we can also see the ways communities there have responded, working on ways that make those systems of injustice obsolete.
To “live in that power which takes away the occasion of all wars” is to actively dismantle the Economic Draft and return stolen land. The state is already obsolete; our task is to build the better world that is already here in the hands of the organized community. Minneapolis shows how the new conscientious objector (NewCO) works to counter authoritarianism..
