Kristian Williams

In the third part of my most recent KBOO interview, Bill Resnick and I consider this conundrum:

How can we prevent the police from joining with the Far Right, when there seems no practical possibility of moving them toward the Left?

I had a long and wide-ranging conversation with KBOO’s Bill Resnick.  He is particularly worried about a police/military alliance with the extreme right wing.  So we talked about that, police crowd control strategies, and the tensions between reform and abolition.

The interview is divided into three parts.  The first two aired December 31 and January 7.  I assume the final installment will play on January 14.

Last month I did a pair of public events with Eric Laursen, in which we discussed George Orwell and Alex Comfort, war and peace, blacklists and totalitarianism, his book and mine.

Video from one of those talks, at Red Emma’s in Baltimore, is now online.  I haven’t watched the video, so I can’t speak to its overall quality, but I remember it was a good conversation.  Eric said some smart things, and I did my best to keep up.

I forgot to link to it at the time, but last month I was interviewed by Eleanor Goldfield for the Act Out! Podcast.  We talk about the history of policing, from slave patrols to militarization, and the challenges of creating alternatives.