a) Institutional power:
- “Institutional power is the power wielded by entities like governments, churches, and corporations to control people and direct their behavior through the use of rewards and punishments. Entities with institutional power and their agents have the official authority or the ability to decide what is best for others and to allocate resources” https://study.com/academy/lesson/institutional-power-definition-lesson-quiz.html
- Alec/ prison industrial complex https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/exposing-alec-how-conservative-backed-state-laws-are-all-connected/255869/
b) Public Resistance:
- “For me, power means getting to make decisions over your own life. Power means being able to determine where resources go, who they go to, where they don’t go, and who they don’t go to. For me, power is about the ability to shape the narrative of what is right, what is wrong, what is just, what is unjust. But most importantly for me, power is about making sure that there are consequences when you’re disappointed. When the people who you elect don’t carry out the agenda that you elected them to carry out. I think, I know, that black people deserve to be powerful. Time and time again we have challenged this country to live up to its values, freedom, justice, democracy for all. Our grandparents, and our parents, and now many of us have put our lives on the line to be free, and they didn’t intend to turn back, and I don’t think we should turn back either. But that means we’ve got to get serious about building power. The power we need for all black communities to live well.” - Alicia Garza https://qz.com/1391762/black-lives-matter-co-founder-alicia-garzas-definition-of-power/
- Bree Newsom and Confederate Flag removal https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/06/29/why-bree-newsome-took-down-the-confederate-flag-in-s-c-i-refuse-to-be-ruled-by-fear/
