Christmas in the Keys: some history?
archive link for the Keys Weekly, if you get a paywall:
https://archive.ph/TWPjY
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Was just reading about the tsunami, and what has been done to improve warning systems:
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One of my favorite Sabaton songs is about one of these.
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I had a professor who both got an award as a young man from Halassie, and later spent time in jail as the regime started falling apart for his activism.
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Passports… technologies of control. 
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Or the piece of paper that saves your life.
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It can be, but different passports have different privileges, yeah? I’m an American citizen, you’re an EU citizen, and that gives us different access to the world than say… someone from Nigeria or Belize. And we know from American history, that privilege can be revoked (during the Cold War, accused communists could have their passport revoked, such as DuBois and Paul Robeson). Traveling freely is no longer a given (although historically, obvious travel could be a privilege in other ways - serfdom tied people to particular parts of land, etc), as we’re seeing with our various refugee crises on our southern borders. If there are plenty of people here who have passports and will be able to get out, there are plenty in the global south who can’t get out of their situations, because if they even have a passport, it gives them far less options. Maybe they need additional paperwork to get somewhere safer for example.
And identity papers of all kinds are also technologies of categorization and control. It’s a way to fix people’s identity so that they can both access rights and social welfare programs that one’s citizenship should offer, it can also be used to control and subjugate. What happens to the fact that we all have to have documents to identify us when the state does a major heel turn? I’m very afraid that we’re about to find out.
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