“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
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-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
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- Disarm law enforcement officers, including the police and private security.
- End the militarization of Black and brown neighborhoods
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3. Remove Police from Schools
-Remove police, both public and private, from all schools.
- Call on universities to dissolve relationships with police departments.
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-Remove police, both public and private, from all schools.
- Call on universities to dissolve relationships with police departments.
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4. Free People from Jails and Prison
- Free all from involuntary confinement, incl but not limited to jails,prisons,immigrant detention centers,psychiatric wards & nursing homes,starting w/the aging,disabled, immunocompromised,held on bail, held for parole violations, & survivors
- Free all from involuntary confinement, incl but not limited to jails,prisons,immigrant detention centers,psychiatric wards & nursing homes,starting w/the aging,disabled, immunocompromised,held on bail, held for parole violations, & survivors
5. Repeal Laws that Criminalize Survival
-Repeal local ordinances that criminalize people involved in the sex trades, drug trades, and street economies.
-Call on Mayors to grant clemencies to criminalized survivors of violence.
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-Repeal local ordinances that criminalize people involved in the sex trades, drug trades, and street economies.
-Call on Mayors to grant clemencies to criminalized survivors of violence.
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6. Invest in Communitu Self-Governance
- Promote neighborhood councils as representative bodies within municipal decision making.
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- Promote neighborhood councils as representative bodies within municipal decision making.
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7. Provide Safe Housing for Everyone
-Cancel rent w/out burden of repayment during COVID-19.
-Repurpose empty buildings, houses, apartments & hotels to house people experiencing homelessness
-Prohibit evictions
-Provide unequivocal support & resources to refugee & asylum seekers
-Cancel rent w/out burden of repayment during COVID-19.
-Repurpose empty buildings, houses, apartments & hotels to house people experiencing homelessness
-Prohibit evictions
-Provide unequivocal support & resources to refugee & asylum seekers
8. Invest in Care, Not Cops
-Allocate city funding towards healthcare infrastructure (incl non-coercive mental healthcare),wellness resources,neighborhood based trauma centers,non-coercive drug & alcohol treatment prog,peer support networks,training for healthcare professionals
-Allocate city funding towards healthcare infrastructure (incl non-coercive mental healthcare),wellness resources,neighborhood based trauma centers,non-coercive drug & alcohol treatment prog,peer support networks,training for healthcare professionals
#8ToAbolition, drawing on decades of abolitionist work, presents realistic and effective reforms that move us toward a world without police, where no one is held in a cage, and all people thrive and be well. #8CantWait can’t get us there. 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. A better world is possible. #8ToAbolition
