Indefinite detention did not begin on 9/11 in Afghanistan or Iraq. It is overdetemined by the dangerously normal state of imprisonment created by the US carceral complex, in which 3 million people of color are imprisoned to establish the core of the American social order. Military prisons and indefinite detention writ large can only be understood through their connections to the general social order Whitmer 6 (BENJAMIN WHITMER University of Colorado, Boulder, "Torture Chambers and Rape Rooms": What Abu Ghraib Can Tell Us about the American Carceral System, The New Centennial Review, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2006, pp. 171-194 (Article))
All detention has become indefinite – the US has created a permanent prison population – results in social death Gordon 6 (Avery Gordon is professor in sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author, most recently, of Keeping Good Time: reflections on knowledge, power, and people, “Abu Ghraib: imprisonment and the war on terror” Race Class 2006 48: 42)
This detention complex has become a state of never ending war waged in the “home front” of the United States. The failure of the progressive left to confront the prison industrial complex fuels a state of domestic warfare Rodriguez ‘8 (Dylan Rodríguez is Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, where he began his teaching career in 2001. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned two B.A. degrees and a Concentration degree from Cornell University. He was nationally recognized by Diverse magazine as one of its Emerging Scholars of 2006, and has been a Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow, Abolition Now! P. 93-100)
While denying the exception of foreign prisons and indefinite detention we cannot reduce them to analogs. These are structurally connected forms of oppression that must be abolished in totality. Sexton and Lee 6 (Jared Sexton African American Studies Program, University of California, Irvine, Elizabeth Lee Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Figuring the Prison: Prerequisites of Torture at Abu Ghraib, Antipode Volume 38, Issue 5, pages 1005–1022, November 2006)
Thus Sadiya and I advocate that The United States federal government should deconstruct Guantanamo bay’s military base, and provide technical cooperation over the transfer of United States owned physical assets in the island of Cuba to the Republic of Cuba.
We use Guantanamo Bay as a starting point for abolition.
Veeren 2013 (Elspeth Van Veeren is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Sussex “Clean War, Invisible War, Liberal War: The Clean and Dirty Politics of Guantánamo”p.95-97 https://www.academia.edu/1990191/Clean_War_Invisible_War_Liberal_War)
Academic and Educational spaces like debate are necessary to produce lasting forms of change. Academic resistances and advocacy of abolition has empirically undone dominant narratives of liberal reform. Rodríguez 12 (Dylan, Racial/Colonial Genocide and the “Neoliberal Academy”: In Excess of a Problematic, American Quarterly, Volume 64, Number 4, December 2012, pp. 809-813)
Prefer these forms of systemic violence Omolade 1984, Barbara, Calvin College’ first dean of multicultural affairs, “Women of Color and the Nuclear Holocaust”, Women’s Studies Quarterly vol. 12, No. 2)
Our advocacy of the United States Federal Government is a form of activism against what the government is, in supports for what it should look like.
Imprisonment forces us to rethink the way we think about life – rejecting a focus on biological death is crucial for challenging systems of power Dillon11(PhD in American Studies at Minnesota, now an Assistant Professor of Queer Studies at Hampshire College)
(Stephen, “The Only Freedom I Can See” in Captive Genders, AK Press pg. 182-3)
Abolition must be directed towards destroying the world the prison sits on and the violence that makes it possible Davis 5 (Angela, Abolition Democracy, p. 68-76)
Indefinite detention did not begin on 9/11 in Afghanistan or Iraq. It is overdetemined by the dangerously normal state of imprisonment created by the US carceral complex, in which 3 million people of color are imprisoned to establish the core of the American social order. Military prisons and indefinite detention writ large can only be understood through their connections to the general social order Whitmer 6 (BENJAMIN WHITMER University of Colorado, Boulder, "Torture Chambers and Rape Rooms": What Abu Ghraib Can Tell Us about the American Carceral System, The New Centennial Review, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2006, pp. 171-194 (Article))
All detention has become indefinite – the US has created a permanent prison population – results in social death Gordon 6 (Avery Gordon is professor in sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author, most recently, of Keeping Good Time: reflections on knowledge, power, and people, “Abu Ghraib: imprisonment and the war on terror” Race Class 2006 48: 42)
This detention complex has become a state of never ending war waged in the “home front” of the United States. The failure of the progressive left to confront the prison industrial complex fuels a state of domestic warfare Rodriguez ‘8 (Dylan Rodríguez is Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, where he began his teaching career in 2001. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned two B.A. degrees and a Concentration degree from Cornell University. He was nationally recognized by Diverse magazine as one of its Emerging Scholars of 2006, and has been a Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow, Abolition Now! P. 93-100)
While denying the exception of foreign prisons and indefinite detention we cannot reduce them to analogs. These are structurally connected forms of oppression that must be abolished in totality. Sexton and Lee 6 (Jared Sexton African American Studies Program, University of California, Irvine, Elizabeth Lee Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Figuring the Prison: Prerequisites of Torture at Abu Ghraib, Antipode Volume 38, Issue 5, pages 1005–1022, November 2006)
U.S. is exporting prison model to Latin America Chatha 12 (Nasim Chatha, Alliance for Global Justice, USA’s Prison Industrial Complex Moves South of the Border June 20, 2012, http://afgj.org/usa%E2%80%99s-prison-industrial-complex-moves-south-of-the-border)
Thus Sadiya and I advocate that The United States federal government should deconstruct Guantanamo bay’s military base, and provide technical cooperation over the transfer of United States owned physical assets in the island of Cuba to the Republic of Cuba.
We use Guantanamo Bay as a starting point for abolition.
Veeren 2013 (Elspeth Van Veeren is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Sussex “Clean War, Invisible War, Liberal War: The Clean and Dirty Politics of Guantánamo”p.95-97 https://www.academia.edu/1990191/Clean_War_Invisible_War_Liberal_War)
Academic and Educational spaces like debate are necessary to produce lasting forms of change. Academic resistances and advocacy of abolition has empirically undone dominant narratives of liberal reform. Rodríguez 12 (Dylan, Racial/Colonial Genocide and the “Neoliberal Academy”: In Excess of a Problematic, American Quarterly, Volume 64, Number 4, December 2012, pp. 809-813)
Prefer these forms of systemic violence Omolade 1984, Barbara, Calvin College’ first dean of multicultural affairs, “Women of Color and the Nuclear Holocaust”, Women’s Studies Quarterly vol. 12, No. 2)
Our advocacy of the United States Federal Government is a form of activism against what the government is, in supports for what it should look like.
Howard, 2005(Adam, “Jeffersonian Democracy: Of the People, By the People, For the People,”http://www.byzantinecommunications.com/adamhoward/homework/highschool/jeffersonian.html, 5/27)Imprisonment forces us to rethink the way we think about life – rejecting a focus on biological death is crucial for challenging systems of power Dillon11(PhD in American Studies at Minnesota, now an Assistant Professor of Queer Studies at Hampshire College)
(Stephen, “The Only Freedom I Can See” in Captive Genders, AK Press pg. 182-3)
Abolition must be directed towards destroying the world the prison sits on and the violence that makes it possible Davis 5 (Angela, Abolition Democracy, p. 68-76)