Dr Butch Ware on Organizing Against Systems: Palestine, State Violence, and ICE Abolition
In this episode of Colonial Outcasts, Dr. Butch Ware joins Greg Stoker for a powerful conversation that connects the dots between U.S. imperialism, ICE raids, the genocide in Palestine and the growing police state here at home.
From his lifelong work as a historian of empire and educator of liberation movements, to his current run for Governor of California under the Green Party, Dr. Ware delivers a timely and unflinching analysis: what we’re witnessing is not isolated chaos, but coordinated suppression and the Democratic Party is fully complicit.
🔥 Topics Covered
ICE Raids & Martial Law Optics: Ware exposes Gavin Newsom’s performative resistance to federal overreach and his actual record of enabling ICE.
Fascism's Boomerang: Drawing from Aimé Césaire and Malcolm X, Ware explains how fascist tools used abroad are returning home via police militarization and surveillance.
Palestine is Here: From Palantir surveillance tech to IDF-modeled policing in U.S. cities, the same corporations that enforce apartheid abroad are fueling state violence domestically.
False Opposition: Why Democrats, from AOC to Biden, are “sheepdogging” progressives back into the hands of empire and how Bernie Sanders’ moral framing of nonviolence erases Black radical tradition.
The Power of the General Strike: Why organized labor and direct action are key to reclaiming civil liberties and building collective liberation.
California as the Battleground: How Dr. Ware’s gubernatorial campaign is using the 2026 jungle primary to challenge the duopoly and why 1.5 million votes could shatter the system from within.
“If you allow ICE to terrorize one community, you allow the state to erode everyone’s freedom.”
🗳️ Why This Matters
This is a call to organize. Against surveillance. Against performative politics. Against the ongoing dehumanization of Black, Brown, and immigrant communities.
And for the first time in decades, a gubernatorial campaign rooted in liberation, not corporate loyalty, is demanding structural change.
💚 Get Involved
Register Green in California to help Dr Ware qualify for debates
