#Abolition

Amanda Alexander

What books, articles, films, & other offerings have most shaped your thinking on abolition? @lawyergrrl asked us to tweet our recs! I’ll start: Ruthie Gilmore’s work, Angela Davis’s Are Prisons

Prison is bad and everyone would benefit from abolition A lot of y’all are new to the concept of abolition (and that’s okay!). Here’s a brief comic to help explain

This exemplifies the BS of GC discourse about "gender abolition". How is it a social conservative who upholds traditional marriage can come to publicly proclaim "gender abolition" with a straight

wikipedia brown demands #MoreThanDiversity

It's okay to just NOT call yourself an abolitionist rather than try to do rhetorical backbends. no one will come to your crib & yell at you. it's okay to

Professor Fleming

I'm watching this Frontline documentary on policing and they're pointing out that Newark mayor Ras Baraka opposes calls to abolish policing. My question is: Do ANY mayors support abolition? CAN

4c pookie 4 pic abolition

i'll say that nothing i've read, understood, or practiced about abolition can be reduced to non-violence; which is to say, abolition aint a theory of pacifism. it's a theory and

pistachio berry slim 🇧🇿

i have a very deep fear that abolition is going to be watered down to just “take money from police and give it to therapists/schools/hospitals and then we’re done”. abolition

Even if you don't understand *how* at the moment, you gotta know that abolition is the only way forward. I know folks want an exact answer on how-one that they

tonystubblebine

Read this graph closely. Most of you know incarceration is out of control. But I bet you didn't know that incarceration for convicted people has actually gone down. The growth

It's jarring to see folks who are speaking as abolitionists on webinars also calling for charges to be brought against cops. I absolutely get why our people ask for that.

ORCBRAND - THE "NO" SAYER

The abolition of factory farming is guaranteed to increase the price of groceries for Americans. The abolition of illegal labor exploitation is guaranteed to do the same. Fair trade and

“it’s such a burden being the only guy on The Left who’s serious and courageous enough to think about obscure topics like ‘revolution’ and ‘police abolition’. me and my friends

Q about calling for shutdown of individual detention centers posed on the "Should Immigration Detention be Abolished?" panel for @UCLAImmigration #CILP100 much to say on this, first I'll share an

I know folks want an exact answer on how-one that they can understand. That isn't the first step. The first step is realizing we have to get away from policing,

We can't say "abolish the police" in one breath and "arrest the cops/men who hurt women" in the next... We can't at once advocate for abolition and carceral feminism. That's

This year, I’ve had a number of folk tell me they used to think I was too aggressive toward cops & capitalists & white folks, but now they are starting