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ABOLITION FOR THE PEOPLE: The Movement For a Future Without Policing & Prisons
The collection of 30 essays will be posted below over the course of the next 4 weeks.
#AbolitionForThePeople https://level.medium.com/abolition-for-the-people-397ef29e3ca5
ABOLITION FOR THE PEOPLE: The Movement For a Future Without Policing & Prisons
The collection of 30 essays will be posted below over the course of the next 4 weeks.
#AbolitionForThePeople https://level.medium.com/abolition-for-the-people-397ef29e3ca5
Here’s my piece for #AbolitionForThePeople
“The ever-present threat of premature death at the hands, knees, chokeholds, tasers, and guns of law enforcement has only further engrained its anti-Black foundation into the institutions of policing.” https://level.medium.com/the-demand-for-abolition-979c759ff6f
“The ever-present threat of premature death at the hands, knees, chokeholds, tasers, and guns of law enforcement has only further engrained its anti-Black foundation into the institutions of policing.” https://level.medium.com/the-demand-for-abolition-979c759ff6f
Check out Dr. Angela Y. Davis’ pieces. #AbolitionForThePeople
“Just as we hear calls today for more humane policing, people then called for a more humane slavery.” - Dr. Angela Y. Davis https://level.medium.com/why-arguments-against-abolition-inevitably-fail-991342b8d042
“Just as we hear calls today for more humane policing, people then called for a more humane slavery.” - Dr. Angela Y. Davis https://level.medium.com/why-arguments-against-abolition-inevitably-fail-991342b8d042
The Feds Are Watching by @wewatchwatchers
“They demonstrate Black communities’ inventive ways of working within the existing infrastructure to disrupt the systems that were meant to contain, objectify, and profit from them.”
#AbolitionForThePeople https://level.medium.com/the-feds-are-watching-a-history-of-resisting-anti-black-surveillance-b2242d6ceaad
“They demonstrate Black communities’ inventive ways of working within the existing infrastructure to disrupt the systems that were meant to contain, objectify, and profit from them.”
#AbolitionForThePeople https://level.medium.com/the-feds-are-watching-a-history-of-resisting-anti-black-surveillance-b2242d6ceaad
The Myth of the “Good Cop” by @NewBlackMan
“Copaganda - the reproduction and circulation in mainstream media of propaganda that is favorable to law enforcement - has long been a tool to disrupt legitimate claims of anti-Black violence.” https://level.medium.com/pop-culture-helped-turn-police-officers-into-rock-stars-and-black-folks-into-criminals-1ac9e3faffa1
“Copaganda - the reproduction and circulation in mainstream media of propaganda that is favorable to law enforcement - has long been a tool to disrupt legitimate claims of anti-Black violence.” https://level.medium.com/pop-culture-helped-turn-police-officers-into-rock-stars-and-black-folks-into-criminals-1ac9e3faffa1
Painful! Losing My Son To Police Violence by @KieseLaymon
“My son was executed by an ideal. That ideal says that he, and people like him, are not redeemable. Police kill people that they believe don’t deserve to live.”-Mama Woods
#AbolitionForThePeople https://level.medium.com/losing-my-son-to-police-violence-a-conversation-with-gwendolyn-woods-5bc18b679305
“My son was executed by an ideal. That ideal says that he, and people like him, are not redeemable. Police kill people that they believe don’t deserve to live.”-Mama Woods
#AbolitionForThePeople https://level.medium.com/losing-my-son-to-police-violence-a-conversation-with-gwendolyn-woods-5bc18b679305
Police playing soldier by @stschrader1
“Police admire the military because it models what they want to be: an extremely well-resourced, technologically sophisticated, tactically effective, and widely respected instrument of state violence.” https://level.medium.com/when-police-play-soldier-everybody-loses-dd48392ba592
“Police admire the military because it models what they want to be: an extremely well-resourced, technologically sophisticated, tactically effective, and widely respected instrument of state violence.” https://level.medium.com/when-police-play-soldier-everybody-loses-dd48392ba592
Disability justice is essential to abolition by @talilalewis
“Abolitionist movements must contend with how disability and ableism interact with carceral systems, and be committed to abolishing all spaces to which marginalized people are disappeared.” https://level.medium.com/disability-justice-is-an-essential-part-of-abolishing-police-and-prisons-2b4a019b5730
“Abolitionist movements must contend with how disability and ableism interact with carceral systems, and be committed to abolishing all spaces to which marginalized people are disappeared.” https://level.medium.com/disability-justice-is-an-essential-part-of-abolishing-police-and-prisons-2b4a019b5730
How policing in schools feeds our kids into the carceral system & corrupts education by Dr. Kihana Miraya Ross
“Even Black toddlers in pre-school, as young as three years old, are disproportionately sent out of the classroom, suspended, and expelled.” https://level.medium.com/funneling-our-children-from-classrooms-to-cages-ends-now-1b22669c9dd7
“Even Black toddlers in pre-school, as young as three years old, are disproportionately sent out of the classroom, suspended, and expelled.” https://level.medium.com/funneling-our-children-from-classrooms-to-cages-ends-now-1b22669c9dd7
We Must Center Black Women by @sandylocks
“Building on #SayHerName and imagining safe futures for all Black women would be a firm step toward a new social order without the terror of the anti-Blackness” https://level.medium.com/breonna-taylor-and-bearing-witness-to-black-womens-expendability-472abf5f6cee
“Building on #SayHerName and imagining safe futures for all Black women would be a firm step toward a new social order without the terror of the anti-Blackness” https://level.medium.com/breonna-taylor-and-bearing-witness-to-black-womens-expendability-472abf5f6cee
Today #AbolitionForThePeople shifts from last week’s focus of Police and Policing to this week’s focus of Prisons & Carcerality.
This week is lead off by @saaylooli and their analysis of settler colonialism, the carceral state, and abolition. https://level.medium.com/stolen-freedom-the-ongoing-incarceration-of-californias-indigenous-peoples-a5f55eba2765
This week is lead off by @saaylooli and their analysis of settler colonialism, the carceral state, and abolition. https://level.medium.com/stolen-freedom-the-ongoing-incarceration-of-californias-indigenous-peoples-a5f55eba2765
A powerful piece by @deanspade on abolition and queer & trans resistance to the carceral state.
“queer and trans people fight for abolition because we refuse to have our movement for liberation co-opted by law enforcement as a public relations strategy.” https://level.medium.com/amp/p/caec82374018?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true
“queer and trans people fight for abolition because we refuse to have our movement for liberation co-opted by law enforcement as a public relations strategy.” https://level.medium.com/amp/p/caec82374018?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true
A critical contribution by @CrisAlexJimenez & @Cynthia09xx on abolishing I.C.E. for #AbolitionForThePeople
"When we call for the abolition of ICE, we are also calling for the abolition of enforcement on all levels & the systems that support it..." https://level.medium.com/amp/p/b3b104e95498?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true
"When we call for the abolition of ICE, we are also calling for the abolition of enforcement on all levels & the systems that support it..." https://level.medium.com/amp/p/b3b104e95498?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true
The Hidden Pandemic by @kenyonFarrow
“Ending pandemics is going to take not only calls to defund the police or abolish the prison industrial complex, but to also plan for a new social contract.” https://level.medium.com/amp/p/aecd54b442c3?__twitter_impression=true
“Ending pandemics is going to take not only calls to defund the police or abolish the prison industrial complex, but to also plan for a new social contract.” https://level.medium.com/amp/p/aecd54b442c3?__twitter_impression=true
10/15/1966, the Black Panther Party was born.
In our @yourrightscamp, we focus on 10 rights, paying homage to the BPP. The 1st right is the right to be FREE.
Today, I want you to read this piece by @RussellMShoatz and his son Russell Shoatz lll. https://level.medium.com/amp/p/6434464014d7?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true
In our @yourrightscamp, we focus on 10 rights, paying homage to the BPP. The 1st right is the right to be FREE.
Today, I want you to read this piece by @RussellMShoatz and his son Russell Shoatz lll. https://level.medium.com/amp/p/6434464014d7?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true
A powerful piece on the carceral class by @LeftSentThis
“For members of the carceral class, resistance is in our blood. Resistance is a binding component of our collective experience. Resistance is in our history.”
#AbolitionForThePeople https://level.medium.com/amp/p/d20199979a72?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true
“For members of the carceral class, resistance is in our blood. Resistance is a binding component of our collective experience. Resistance is in our history.”
#AbolitionForThePeople https://level.medium.com/amp/p/d20199979a72?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true
Derrick Hamilton writes about how reform stole over 20 years of his life for #AbolitionForThePeople.
“For 21 years, I languished in prison, my time stolen by Bill Clinton’s infamous 1994 crime bill.” https://level.medium.com/criminal-justice-reform-cost-me-21-years-of-my-life-d5e3cdf6bb2c
“For 21 years, I languished in prison, my time stolen by Bill Clinton’s infamous 1994 crime bill.” https://level.medium.com/criminal-justice-reform-cost-me-21-years-of-my-life-d5e3cdf6bb2c
Reforms are the Master’s tools by @dereckapurnell for #AbolitionForThePeople
"Counterintuitively, reforms do not make a system more just, but obscure the violence of the criminal legal system more efficiently." https://level.medium.com/amp/p/c83e6dc4dd66?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true
"Counterintuitively, reforms do not make a system more just, but obscure the violence of the criminal legal system more efficiently." https://level.medium.com/amp/p/c83e6dc4dd66?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true
Reformism Isn’t Liberation, It’s Counterinsurgency by @dylanrodriguez for #AbolitionForThePeople.
“reform is merely another way of telling the targets of such asymmetrical domestic warfare that they must continue to tolerate the intolerable.” https://level.medium.com/amp/p/7ea0a1ce11eb?__twitter_impression=true
“reform is merely another way of telling the targets of such asymmetrical domestic warfare that they must continue to tolerate the intolerable.” https://level.medium.com/amp/p/7ea0a1ce11eb?__twitter_impression=true
“Police Reform Works — For the Police” by Dr. Naomi Murakawa for #AbolitionForThePeople
“The more police brutalize and kill, the greater their budgets for training, hiring, and hardware.” https://level.medium.com/amp/p/ecf2dd7b8833?__twitter_impression=true
“The more police brutalize and kill, the greater their budgets for training, hiring, and hardware.” https://level.medium.com/amp/p/ecf2dd7b8833?__twitter_impression=true
“Black Cops Don’t Make Policing Any Less Anti-Black" by @BreeNewsome for #AbolitionForThePeople
"The most insidious aspect of modern pro-police propaganda is reflected in the choice to make the officer on the billboard the face of a Black man.” https://level.medium.com/amp/p/4baf78c2ab29?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true
"The most insidious aspect of modern pro-police propaganda is reflected in the choice to make the officer on the billboard the face of a Black man.” https://level.medium.com/amp/p/4baf78c2ab29?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true
“The Shiny, High-Tech Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing" by @ruha9 for #AbolitionForThePeople
“Struggles over abolitionist futures are being waged not just in the streets, but on our phones, apps, and platforms.” https://level.medium.com/amp/p/17d8db219b6d?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true
“Struggles over abolitionist futures are being waged not just in the streets, but on our phones, apps, and platforms.” https://level.medium.com/amp/p/17d8db219b6d?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true
