#Abolition

Robert P. George

McCormickProf

1/ I sometimes ask students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess what? They all would have

Aren R. LeBrun

proustmalone

Centrism is a moral fiction that allows people to believe they are resisting the "extremes" of the right and left in equal measure. In reality, they are helping to aid

Pete 🇬🇧

post_liberal

‘The current Government, along with its prime minister, is the most tobacco-friendly administration we’ve seen in decades. It is riddled with ministers and advisors who have taken money from tobacco

adrian de leon

aadeleon

Your Filipino American History Month ain't shit if you ain't here for the liberation of Indigenous Peoples Your Filipino American History Month ain't shit if your "decolonization" is a clothing

micah

micahherskind

A common (& understandable) question: "what's the alternative to prison? What will replace it?" Making a thread because I’m tired of answering individually. The short answer: there isn't ONE alternative,

rotkoff

rotkof

Slavery -> abolition -> civil war -> post/reconstruction -> Jim Crow -> Civil Rights movement -> Southern Strategy & realignment -> Lee Atwater austerity racism -> Obama election -> 2009

none ya

loveliYungWoman

THIS is the one!! So many vindictive freaks out here doing their best to turn anyone who’ll listen against a person they had an interpersonal *CONFLICT* with!! abolition happens in

youth climate action team

ycatw

TW: Police BrutalityToday marks the third day of protest in Minneapolis, Minneasota after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Officier Derek Chauvin. The pattern of police violence in

julian francis park

jfpark3

To no one's surprise, I'm not one of those ppl that's like, any time someone says #cancelrent we gotta add #cancelmortgages. Still, looking at the CA Tenant, Homeowner etc Relief

MerryMichaelW 🎗 😷 #T & T #BlackLivesMatter #BDS

MerryMichaelW

The Maastricht Treaty was signed by John Major, February 1992, but only ratified in Parliament in September, by Major taking the nuclear step of calling for a Vote of Confidence.

Septima P. Snark

DrSubini

Thanks for everyone who attended #RILE202 conversation on education and abolition with @DrJonathanRosa, @profm_de_r, @karikokka, Dave Stovall & myself. I’m going to drop some resources that were mentioned or that

a swarm of angry bees

PhoenixErika

This #SuicidePreventionMonth we can't ignore the power that capitalism has in decimating people's desire to continue living. As long as mental and physical health resources are paywalled and as long

Denise Balkissoon

balkissoon

SIGH. Re: bad faith trending topics, TW for violent sexual assault.***Paul Bernardo, Robert Pickton and Bruce McArthur are not arguments against abolition of police or prison. Every single one of

Giovanni Tiso

gtiso

This talk about how the abolition of DHBs will lead to the elimination of "postcode lotteries" is so naive it makes me want to cry. Our neoliberal bureaucracy's idea of

Disposable Human

haveachattabs

I mean...*sigh* this good and all, but 1. They are calling for reform of a system that has been reformed loads of times but remains structurally racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynist,

Zalika U. Ibaorimi, M.A. (THE FINAL GIRL)

thinglygrammar

The 13th and When They See Us has a specific agenda that falls in line with neoliberal notions of protecting the sanctity of Black and boyhood through the notions of