#Abolitionist

Aaron Astor

AstorAaron

THREAD: Let's talk about federalism. Yes, federalism, the system of government where powers are divided between national and local governments. In America we typically discuss federalism in the context of

jason wu

CriticalRace

1/ There was an attack against a 61 year old Asian man, currently hospitalized. He was in East Harlem collecting cans in a shopping cart. The news coverage has been

William Paris

WilliamMParis

The hardest philosophical struggle of abolition is to change the conversation from "Did the police/state kill in the right way?" to "Ought the police/state have the right to kill?" And

Angela Mayfield

pinkrocktopus

Fun Georgia Fact:We have a metric Costco shit ton of counties for the express purpose of...Wait for it...RACIST VOTE SUPPRESSION.Really. They designed it that way during Reconstruction, and were not

Nothing Never Happens: A Radical Pedagogy Podcast

RadPedagogy

A lot of (white) academic institutions -- colleges, departments, centers -- are putting out statements affirming their commitments to "diversity" and "inclusion." Some are going as far as to say

🦋Rising☀️

BmoreDoc

I’m really enjoying how @kcarterjackson describes the tensions between Black and White abolitionists during slavery, especially because I think it informs the struggle today.There was compromise in the 1830s. Today,

pumpKin

sheabutterfemme

When BPP started free breakfast programs they weren’t just giving away free shit to be nice, they were also using it as a tool of political education and building with

for the self abolition of the proletariat

thecoleslaws

There are still ML parties who think homosexuality is a bourgeois deviation, and where that has become unfashionable many have picked up the same rhetoric for trans people. Tankies are

Keri Leigh Merritt, Ph.D.

KeriLeighMerrit

I have so much to do today but if I could I'd write an op-ed on the ways slaveholders & the #Confederacy kept poor whites uneducated, illiterate, & ignorant of

Lexi

lexicon91

While I don't disagree with this, there's something funky to me about how much energy, attention, and empathy we extend to perpetrators of violence and harm. Particularly without coming to

Rox

RoxyZech

a lot of professors ask how to make their classrooms accessible & they want it to mean asking people use their mic or posting slides beforehand. But when it means

Charlene #Defund2AbolishPolice Carruthers

CharleneCac

Friends, calling for criminal charges against the white woman who called the cops flies in the face of decades of Black and WOC feminist anti-violence work. What I know for

nash🤎

loveformypeople

thread about how we as non Black abolitionist go about debating racists from our past lives on social media.. has to do with a close hs friend of mine I

DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES

BreeNewsome

Asking “how can we have public safety if we abolish police & prisons?” is like asking “how can we harvest cotton if we abolish chattel slavery?”It’s a question reflecting a

Puff the Magic Hater

MsKellyMHayes

Some of you have never watched DS9, and thus never transitioned from the idealistic liberalism of TNG to an incendiary resentment of the police state, liberal hypocrisy and imperialism, and

Disposable Human

haveachattabs

Lets talk a bit about abolition practice in schools & why it is necessary.I’ll start with an example: Yesterday my son received 2 Friday detentions (ugh I know, right)… Here