{"id":25,"date":"2020-08-18T19:41:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T23:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2021-03-12T20:15:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T01:15:08","slug":"11-13-abolish-oil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/11-13-abolish-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/13 | Abolish Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v8I0JtTonYQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The seminar opens with traditional Lakota singing and drumming by Red Rock Perkins, John Eagle Shield Jr., Kendall Little Owl, and Spencer Little Owl of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/iron-bull\/\">Iron Bull Singers<\/a> and a brief discussion of the CCCCT&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cccct.law.columbia.edu\/content\/standing-rock-litigation\">Standing Rock Litigation<\/a> with lead attorney Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/noah-smith-drelich\/\">Noah Smith-Drelich<\/a><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">followed by<\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Professors <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/alyssa-battistoni\/\">Alyssa Battistoni<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/daniela-gandorfer\/\">Daniela Gandorfer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/reinhold-martin\/\">Reinhold Martin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/bernard-e-harcourt-host\/\">Bernard E. Harcourt<\/a><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">reading and discussing<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/placesjournal.org\/article\/abolish-oil\/\">Abolish Oil&#8221;<\/a> by Reinhold Martin<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime,\u00a0<\/em>by Bruno Latour<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;O\u00f9 suis-je?&#8221; \u2014 Le\u00e7ons du confinement \u00e0 l&#8217;usage des terrestres <\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruno-latour.fr\/sites\/default\/files\/downloads\/CHAPITRE-1.pdf\">Chapter 1<\/a>), new book (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruno-latour.fr\/fr\/node\/878.html\">in French, 2021<\/a>) by Bruno Latour<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"citation__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/10.1086\/712129#\">Gas Guzzling Gaia, or: A Prehistory of Climate Change Denialism<\/a>&#8221; by\u00a0Leah Aronowsky<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Thursday, March 11, 2021<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Columbia University<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Red Deal continues this call for divestment from fossil fuel industries, but we go one step further. We draw from Black abolitionist traditions to call for divestment away from the caging, criminalizing, and harming of human beings <em>and<\/em> from the exploitative and extractive violence of fossil fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The Red Nation, <a href=\"https:\/\/therednation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Red-Deal_Part-I_End-The-Occupation-1.pdf\">The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe struggle to abolish oil must join forces with other abolition struggles: namely, those aimed at policing and prisons. Abolishing oil requires fighting fossil capital; which in turn requires rolling back the repressive force of the state which protects fossil capital\u2019s investments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0 Alyssa Battistoni, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/alyssa-battistoni-on-the-politics-of-oil-abolition\/\">On the Politics of Oil Abolition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbolition democracy establishes a benchmark for the Green New Deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Reinhold Martin, <a href=\"https:\/\/placesjournal.org\/article\/abolish-oil\/\">Abolish Oil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA more nuanced understandings of breathing [includes] the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. (#icantbreathe), nuclear colonialism and the effects on breathing for indigenous populations, contaminated air and toxicity as a result of recycling plants, the burning of e-waste in South India, lead smelting and gas leaks in Los Angeles and New Jersey, the relation between breathing and energy justice\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Daniela Gandorfer &amp; Zulaikha Ayub, <a href=\"https:\/\/lo-ph.agency\/gas-exchanges\">Gas Exchanges and the Right to Breathe<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The question is not \u201cif\u201d but \u201chow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abolition Democracy <em>is<\/em> inextricably linked to the struggle against global climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The last New Deal, in the 1930s, demonstrated the failures of a collective enterprise that exploited racial injustice\u2014a vast governmental initiative of extraordinary infrastructural construction and social programs of housing and employment that was made possible by leveraging the racial cleavages in this country and playing into the hands of Southern segregationists, who directed all the social benefits to their white constituencies, rather than uniting and uplifting communities of different colors in a joint enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>The question is not \u201cif\u201d but \u201chow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And now we have guides to help us rethink how:<\/p>\n<p>The remarkable work of Alyssa Battistoni and her colleagues, Kate Aronoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos, in their book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/3107-a-planet-to-win\"><em>A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal<\/em><\/a> (Verso 2019), as well as the brilliant essay by Alyssa Battisoni \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/alyssa-battistoni-on-the-politics-of-oil-abolition\/\">On the Politics of Oil Abolition<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rich essay by Reinhold Martin, <a href=\"https:\/\/placesjournal.org\/article\/abolish-oil\/\">Abolish Oil<\/a>, in which he directly ties the struggle against climate change to W.E.B. Du Bois\u2019s formulation of the idea of abolition democracy in order to push the Green New Deal further along both dimensions of climate change and racial justice, and socialize energy infrastructures.<\/p>\n<p>The remarkable explorations of Daniela Gandorfer and her colleagues at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lo-ph.agency\/\">Logische Phantasie Lab<\/a> of all the dimensions of the harrowing expression \u201cI can\u2019t breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the many resources and the powerful activism that they point us to in their work.<\/p>\n<p>Andreas Malm\u2019s recent polemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/3665-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline\">How to Blow Up a Pipeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Nation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/therednation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Red-Deal_Part-I_End-The-Occupation-1.pdf\">Red Deal<\/a>, that militates for an integrated view of social transformation that simultaneously attacks the effects of colonialism and of extractive capitalism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Red Deal is a platform that calls for demilitarization, police and prison abolition, abolishing ICE, tearing down all border walls, Indigenous liberation, decolonization, land restoration, treaty rights, free healthcare, free education, free housing, full citizenship, equal protection for undocumented relatives, a complete moratorium on oil, gas, coal, and carbon extraction and emissions, a transition to an economy that benefits everyone and that ends the exploitation of the Global South and Indigenous nations for resources, safe and free public transportation, restoration of Indigenous agriculture, food sovereignty; restoration of watersheds and waterways, denuclearization; Black self-determination and autonomy, gender and sexual equality, Two-Spirit, trans*, and queer liberation, and the restoration of sacred sites. (11)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The question now is \u201chow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How do we work together to fight global climate change while creating racial justice and a just society?<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Abolition Democracy 11\/13!<\/p>\n<p>We open our public seminar with a performance of traditional Lakota singing and drumming by Red Rock Perkins, John Eagle Shield Jr., Kendall Little Owl, and Spencer Little Owl of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/iron-bull\/\">Iron Bull Singers<\/a>\u00a0and a brief discussion of the CCCCT\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cccct.law.columbia.edu\/content\/standing-rock-litigation\">Standing Rock Litigation<\/a>\u00a0with lead attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/noah-smith-drelich\/\">Noah Smith-Drelich<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe call for a divestment away from police, prisons, military, and fossil fuels (four of the biggest drains on public spending) and reinvestment in common humanity for everyone, including health, dignity, and wellbeing, as well as the restoration of Indigenous lands, waters, airs, and nations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The Red Nation, <a href=\"https:\/\/therednation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Red-Deal_Part-I_End-The-Occupation-1.pdf\">The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/11-13-abolish-oil\/screen-shot-2021-03-12-at-8-16-34-pm\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2141\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2141\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-12-at-8.16.34-PM-251x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-12-at-8.16.34-PM-251x300.png 251w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-12-at-8.16.34-PM.png 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seminar opens with traditional Lakota singing and drumming by Red Rock Perkins, John Eagle Shield Jr., Kendall Little Owl, and Spencer Little Owl of the\u00a0Iron Bull Singers and a brief discussion of the CCCCT&#8217;s Standing Rock Litigation with lead&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/11-13-abolish-oil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1603,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}