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Today we're doing a thread on abolition. 2020 was certainly a year of abolition entering mainstream discourse on a large scale, with all the contradictions that creates. These are some of our favorite abolition convos from 2020:
Our two part conversation with Fred Moten & Stefano Harney was our most downloaded ever. Revisited their abolitionist text The Undercommons in a time of pandemic and rebellion.
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During Black August we sat down with two prisoner movement historians and abolitionist organizers and thinkers in their own right @dnbrgr and @thetous to talk history and present of US prisoner movements
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FALL OF THE PRISON CHRISTIAN ABOLITIONIST SEMINAR
In 1993, Lee Griffith published “The Fall of the Prison: Biblical Perspectives on Prison Abolition”. Scholar Walter Wink says this text “unmasks the whole system of revenge that masquerades as ‘correctional’ institutions”.
In 1993, Lee Griffith published “The Fall of the Prison: Biblical Perspectives on Prison Abolition”. Scholar Walter Wink says this text “unmasks the whole system of revenge that masquerades as ‘correctional’ institutions”.
Three decades later, Griffith’s landmark book remains one of the only texts addressing a specifically Christian approach to prison abolition.
In a political and spiritual season in which conversations about police and prison abolition have moved from the fringe to the mainstream, we invite you to join us in a five-week seminar devoted to studying this classic text.
Good afternoon, today is a great day to explain why the .@nasw is a bullshit organization. Thread:
The NASW is one of the largest professional bodies for social workers. And the biggest issues in social work, including exploitation of workers and clients, can be traced back to the establishment of the NASW in 1955.
Prior to the NASW, social workers were heavily involved in labor organizing and advocacy. The WPA made it possible for poor women to be trained as caseworkers so they could assist others. Jewish Federation workers in NYC unionized and won back their wages after a pay cut.
I am not about to tell anyone how to feel or how to do activism (especially non-white people) but I saw an Instagram post from @/urdoinggreat that basically said calls to arrest the police just wastes our energy and validates a corrupt system and wowza I am thinking about that
Link to the post here (if anyone knows if they have twitter pls send me their @,) & I’ll post a brief transcript in the next tweet instagram.com/p/CB3jbYzj9dQ/…
“We want justice... and the only justice that a lot of us know is within the criminal justice system that we already know does not work, so we end up calling for measures that validate a system that we have already decided does not work.”
@/urdoinggreat : instagram.com/p/CB3jbYzj9dQ/…
@/urdoinggreat : instagram.com/p/CB3jbYzj9dQ/…
Portland: PLEASE SUPPORT #PortlandProtests ! (Thread)
city council still won’t listen to THOUSANDS who demanded they dismantle PPB.
The most direct action: ONLY if you’re able, safe, & understand the risk, go to the Justice Center. More numbers, more pressure.
If you can’t...
city council still won’t listen to THOUSANDS who demanded they dismantle PPB.
The most direct action: ONLY if you’re able, safe, & understand the risk, go to the Justice Center. More numbers, more pressure.
If you can’t...
Here’s one trustworthy bail fund: gofundme.com/f/pdx-protest-…
Here’s another trustworthy fund that’s focused on BIPOC and trans protesters, who have higher bails and are more vulnerable in jail:
TOMORROW: #Oregon legislators will convene for a special session on policing.
With policing under the spotlight in #Oregon, what's the way forward? (We like #8toAbolition.)
That said, here's a run-down of the six issues legislators will be considering tomorrow... 1/7 #orpol
With policing under the spotlight in #Oregon, what's the way forward? (We like #8toAbolition.)
That said, here's a run-down of the six issues legislators will be considering tomorrow... 1/7 #orpol
1. When a law enforcement officer (LEO) has been disciplined by their agency, if the arbitrator finds misconduct consistent with the agency's finding, the arbitrator's disciplinary action must match. This stops arbitrators lessening the disciplinary action taken. #orpol
2. Creation of a statewide database of LEO disciplinary records and requirement to publish an annual report to legislators about LEO disciplinary actions throughout Oregon. #orpol
NEW: #8ToAbolition - We talk to @theAfroLegalise, @rachelkuo, @EliToYou, @SultanReina and @micahherskind about the new abolitionist platform that they created along with their comrades in response to the police preservationist platform #8CantWait. …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/8toabolition-f…
We talk to these creators about developing an abolitionist response to a reformist platform. How abolitionists understand the trajectories of "reform" vs "non-reformist reform," & how #8ToAbolition might be useful for organizers in their specific cities …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/8toabolition-f…
#8ToAbolition's @theAfroLegalise also shares how years of struggle within the @Mvmnt4BlkLives on abolition, helped bring about this moment where people are looking to abolitionist solutions to the deep rooted issue of state violence against Black people …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/8toabolition-f…
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For those white folks in particular who get nervous at the idea of de-policing, and putting aside the mechanics of how we go from point a, to point b, I'd like for you to consider a few things.
For those white folks in particular who get nervous at the idea of de-policing, and putting aside the mechanics of how we go from point a, to point b, I'd like for you to consider a few things.
2/ If you are scared by the thought of far fewer police, drastically reduced law enforcement budgets, and perhaps the eventual abolition of "policing" as we know it (in favor of other mechanisms for ensuring public safety), have you asked why that is?
3/ Especially considering the relatively low arrest rates in most of the places where you live (which signal that you/we aren't having to turn to cops for "protection" all that regularly anyway)?
.@OJRCenter is proud to endorse/support #8toAbolition for fundamental change. All Black people have a right to be safe and to flourish at home, at school, at work, in the streets, & everywhere. All of us must be part of this change. Half measures aren't enough.
1. Defund the police
2. Demilitarize communities
3. Remove police from schools
4. Free people from prisons and jails
5. Repeal laws that criminalize survival
6. Invest in community self-governance
7. Provide safe housing for everyone
8. Invest in care, not cops #8toabolition
2. Demilitarize communities
3. Remove police from schools
4. Free people from prisons and jails
5. Repeal laws that criminalize survival
6. Invest in community self-governance
7. Provide safe housing for everyone
8. Invest in care, not cops #8toabolition
Learn more and help spread the word: 8toabolition.com #8toabolition
“The end goal of these reforms is not to create better, friendlier, or more community-oriented police or prisons. Instead, we hope to build toward a society without police or prisons, where communities are equipped to provide for their safety & wellbeing”
8toabolition.com/why
8toabolition.com/why
1. Defund the police:
-Reject any proposed expansion to police budgets.
- Prohibit private-public innovation schemes that profit from temporary technological fixes to systemic problems of police abuse and violence.
- Reduce the power of police unions
#8ToAbolition
-Reject any proposed expansion to police budgets.
- Prohibit private-public innovation schemes that profit from temporary technological fixes to systemic problems of police abuse and violence.
- Reduce the power of police unions
#8ToAbolition
2. Demilitarize Communities
- Disarm law enforcement officers, including the police and private security.
- End the militarization of Black and brown neighborhoods
#8ToAbolition
- Disarm law enforcement officers, including the police and private security.
- End the militarization of Black and brown neighborhoods
#8ToAbolition
The call from #8ToAbolition to "invest in community self governance" is a substantial and critical step forward in the evolution of demands for economic democracy and solidarity economies. I remember the M4BL platform a few year back had a set of pretty vague recommendations...
to invest in participatory budgeting and worker cooperatives. Like our own work in NYC here around rebutting and defeating amazon, we in the economic democracy/solidarity economy/new economy etc spaces failed to show up with demands that were more than just alternative models. /2
Still now, we are not yet being specific enough in our demands for reallocation beyond community needs and services. One of the critical pieces that has supported the development of solidarity economies in other places (before the institutional infrastructure is mature) /3
Abolition can’t wait. Building off the work of Black feminist theorists and abolitionist organizers, we’re putting forward 8 actionable steps to move us closer to a world without prisons or police. 8toabolition.com #8ToAbolition
Thank you for continuously pushing for a better world @cemicool, @theleilaraven, @micahherskind, @sheabutterfemme, @hamidtasnuva, @SultanReina, @rachelkuo, @theAfroLegalise, @dereckapurnell, and @BlkTransFutures.
In response to the #8CantWait reformist co-optation of decades of Black feminist abolitionist work, a group of abolitionists has compiled this list of demands. #8ToAbolition
Read about their 8 demands here: 8toabolition.com
Read about their 8 demands here: 8toabolition.com
In response to the #8CantWait reformist co-optation of decades of Black feminist abolitionist work, a group of abolitionists has compiled this list of demands. #8ToAbolition
We honor the work of abolitionists who have come before us, and those who organize now. A better world is possible. The #8CantWait campaign co-opts the abolitionist label toward reformist ends and erases the work and theorizing of Black women. We need #8ToAbolition
State violence isn’t a problem of “bad apple” cops; it’s systemic. #8CantWait doesn’t move us closer to safety!
We need #8toAbolition
Check out: 8toabolition.com
We need #8toAbolition
Check out: 8toabolition.com
Something I've learned while in law school is about the social construction of crime. I work in a legal clinic on wage theft cases, where employers have "improperly paid" workers by not paying, paying below min wage, withholding overtime, paid sick time, etc. 1/
Most theft is wage theft. Meaning, the dollar value of stolen wages is greater than the value, each year, of all burglaries+robberies, shoplifting, auto theft, combined. Yet, wage theft is NOT A CRIME 2/
If you steal $100 from your employer, you will get arrested. If you call the police because your paycheck is $100 light, the police will tell you to file a complaint with the AG, and the AG will settle the case for between $50 and $200. 3/
