Through this interactive workshop, we will explore the mentalities, machines and root causes of police militarization. By accessing our collective knowledge and pulling from current resistance to the police state, we will deepen our understanding of what police militarization is, and how local policing fits within larger systems of global militarism and war profiteering by tracing the root causes of oppression. Finally, in order to inspire local and collective action, we will exercise our shared analysis through role-playing how the cross-community coalition Stop Urban Shield, resisted police militarization by kicking Urban Shield, a war-weapons expo and SWAT training, out of Oakland, CA in September 2014.
