Apocalypse Survival Skill #9: The Right to Defend Ourselves

How to Survive the End of the World

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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We live in a fundamentally violent society. We have the human right to defend and protect ourselves, but for many of us the means of doing so seem inaccessible. How do we protect and secure our communities as conditions deteriorate? Autumn speaks to security and firearms expert Rashid McCall of the firm Opposition Research, for insight into the challenges and opportunities facing oppressed people who want to practice self-defense. This episode is dedicated to George Floyd, may he rest in power.

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0:00.0	Hello beloved survivors, I'm Autumn Brown and this is how to survive the end of the world.
0:08.0	A podcast about surviving apocalypse with grace, rigor, and curiosity.
0:14.0	I'm recording in this moment in my closet,
0:20.0	I'm recording in this moment in my closet inside my apartment in South Minneapolis
0:26.2	about 15 blocks away from the corner of Chicago and 38th, where George Floyd was murdered by police two nights ago.
0:35.0	His murder was documented on video.
0:38.0	A video I haven't watched and probably won't.
0:42.0	It's a chilling reminder that while taking video makes it
0:46.1	harder for the state to hide its murders, it won't stop them in the act. The truth is that we don't know how to stop the police from
0:55.6	killing us. The painful fact that black folks live with every day is that if they
1:02.3	come for us we most likely won't survive.
1:07.0	We make plans for what we will do.
1:09.7	We teach our children what to do and what not to do. But we know that most of those
1:15.2	plans don't matter and we wonder. When I think about the many experiences I had being racially profiled when I lived in rural Minnesota,
1:28.0	what I remember most was my body's survival response.
1:32.0	I would make myself smaller, pitch my voice higher to sound
1:38.1	more childlike and helpless, to sound less powerful.
1:43.0	Always I would drive away in tears, grateful to be alive.
1:48.0	Never did I feel like I could fight back.
1:52.0	I don't think I really know what it looks like to secure myself, to protect myself.
2:00.0	As soon as we started planning this miniseries, I knew I wanted to have a conversation
2:06.8	about the complex question of arming and protecting ourselves inside of violent conditions, the conditions of apocalypse that we most fear.
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