Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio. On today's episode I have on

Tune and Musa from the Black Alliance for Peace, the Atlanta chapter, to talk about Gilly,

the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange, which is a program that the U.S. runs in this context through the Georgia State University Foundation and these other funding sources by which domestic police forces can link up with and train with foreign forces

specifically the Israeli occupying forces to train you know how police

tactics suppression tactics, etc.

We talk about Cop City and its connection to Gilly.

We talk about the 1033 program, which is a program by which military gear

can get funneled down for very, very cheap to local police departments

militarizing those police departments in the process.

We talk about society as a whole, the protest movements in the past, the position that the ruling

class is coming from and what their intentions are with such programs and what

they think the future is, what we think the future is, what the Black Alliance for Peace and other

organizations are doing on the ground to counter these attempts to basically

implement, you know, COPS City, implement these various fascist formations etc so this is a really important

episode that I think ties a lot of things that you hear you hear stuff like oh

militarized police equipment and you hear stuff like oh there's cop cities being built and

you hear oh the US works with Israel to train their forces and sometimes those things can

seem like disparate strands of political intrigue, but they are all deeply connected.

And we make that very clear through this episode couldn't ask for two better guests on to do just that.

So that's what we're going to be

covering today. And for those that don't know we have a wonderful

collaboration with the with the comrades over at leftwing books dot net and

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