"Today, we are talking about the realities of organizing against a concentration camp regime. We will be hearing from Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps and the newsletter Degenerate Art. Andrea has studied how concentration camp regimes are constructed, entrenched, and normalized. At a time when detention infrastructure is rapidly expanding in the United States, her analysis can help us understand what we're confronting, and what meaningful resistance requires."
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Mass detention systems are constructed through incremental "end runs" around legal protections, using administrative, bureaucratic, and infrastructural maneuvers to avoid judicial oversight. Language, euphemisms, and steady expansion of facilities normalize detention and obscure escalating severity. Rapid enlargement of detention infrastructure in the United States marks a dangerous shift toward entrenched mass detention. Effective opposition requires organized, sustained political and legal action, disrupting normalization, increasing public awareness, and challenging the administrative mechanisms that enable detention. Early recognition of expansion patterns and coordinated resistance can slow or prevent the institutionalization of large-scale detention regimes.
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