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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.”
#AbolitionForThePeoplehttps://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 …
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
#AbolitionForThePeoplehttps://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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.”
#AbolitionForThePeoplehttps://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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
“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 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 …
"What Abolition Looks Like, From the Panthers to the People" by Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley for #AbolitionForThePeople
Calls to defund prisons and policing is neither new nor hopelessly utopian.https://level.medium.com/what-abolition-looks-like-from-the-panthers-to-the-people-6c2e537eac71 …
"From One Struggle to Another: Lessons From the First Abolition Movement" by @MumiaAbuJamal for #AbolitionForThePeople
“Abolition is a natural response to a situation that has become untenable."https://level.medium.com/amp/p/d78dd24bbcd3?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true …
“Creating Solutions Is About Answering Questions Prisons Never Asked" by @_MarlonPeterson for #AbolitionForThePeople
“Abolition is more than a politic evincing an end of prisons and police. Abolition is an action word.” https://level.medium.com/amp/p/6dd439508a8d?__twitter_impression=true …
“Ending The War On Black Women” by @dreanyc123 for #AbolitionForThePeople
“Black women’s safety requires us to build a world where Black women are not killed, violently arrested, sexually assaulted, or deported by police”https://level.medium.com/amp/p/279746b1c55c?__twitter_impression=true …
Revolution As Policy by @RukiaLumumba for #AbolitionForThePeople
"The merger of electoral justice and abolition allows for a return of politics to the people. Community should be central and not peripheral to system change."https://level.medium.com/amp/p/9abd8b30a86c?__twitter_impression=true …
“What Is and What Could Be: The Policies of Abolition" by @dnbrgr & @DavidpStein for #AbolitionForThePeople
"Police and prisons uphold the world that is. Abolition fights for the world that should be. Abolition unites struggles across time and space.”https://level.medium.com/amp/p/9c1b49eb5a1f?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true …
So You’re Thinking About Becoming An Abolitionist by @prisonculture for #AbolitionForThePeople
“Some might be wondering, is abolition too drastic? Can we really get rid of prisons and policing all together? The short answer: We can. We must. We are.” https://level.medium.com/amp/p/a436f8e31894?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true …
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