It’s not just history — reproductive coercion by the government and criminal justice system is an ongoing reality. CW: mentions of miscarriage, reproductive violence/coercion, and sexual violence/r*pe By Kylie Cheung In a world dominated by celebrity, few cultural moments can be more eye-opening to the oppressions of marginalized people than a horror story of someone...
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Derek Chauvin’s Guilty Verdict Won’t End Police Violence
Individualizing the system by blaming these actions on a single bad cop like Derek Chauvin misses the point entirely. Getting one violent police officer off the streets doesn’t do anything to stop police violence because policing is violent. CW: policing, murder, Black death Yesterday, after about 10 hours of deliberation, the jury found Derek Chauvin...
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Abolition Now: Black and Brown Children Will Never Be Protected By The State
The police don’t need any help demonizing Black and brown children. Society and the state treat them as older than they are, dangerous, irredeemable, and disposable. CW: policing, state violence, murder of Black and brown people, racism On March 29, police chased 13-year-old Adam Toledo into an alley around 2:30 A.M. After a seconds-long interaction,...
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#KillTheBill: Lessons for Movement-Building from Abolitionist Feminist Organizers in the UK
Abolitionist feminist organizers are turning a moment in the aftermath of a murder into a visible movement connecting gendered violence to the importance of #KillTheBill. This essay discusses murder and police violence By Maya Bhardwaj Over the past week in the UK, the South London abduction and murder of a young middle-class white woman, Sarah...
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Ending Anti-Asian Violence Requires Eliminating Anti-Blackness and Carcerality
Much of the conversation and advocacy surrounding anti-Asian racism has failed to connect it with anti-Blackness, and has itself been mired in carceral and anti-Black thinking. By Jordana Allen-Shim Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there has been a massive spike in documented cases of anti-Asian violence. A February 9 report from Stop AAPI Hate, “the...
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Abolition Means Removing Policing From Our Teaching and Thinking
Finding solutions outside of increased policing requires creativity, imagination, the dismantling of carcerality and white supremacy, and an investment in community resources. By Victoria Collins The work of abolition calls us to imagine something new, but this imagining is not done all at once. To abolish the police as an institution we have to understand,...
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The Police And FBI Are Not Our Heroes, Stop Praising Them
The police aren’t suddenly a trust-worthy institution just because of January 6th’s insurrection events. Critiquing the white supremacist institution of policing isn’t just for when it’s convenient. By Gloria Oladipo On January 6th, a mass of white supremacists broke into Capitol Hill with the intent of avenging Trump’s “stolen” election and killing United States politicians....
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Bella Eiko’s Story. Ramsey Orta Is No Martyr.
Ramsey Orta is not the revolutionary leader he has been made out to be. He may be another victim of targeted state violence, as Eric Garner was, but he is also a violent abuser. By Kika D. & Dani TW: details of state violence, anti-Black violence, domestic/interpersonal abuse, and misogynoir. “People love evidence. If there...
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Abolition Is Global: The United States and Israel’s Deadly Exchange
The U.S. exchanges tactics and tech with Israel resulting in exacerbated violence both in the U.S. and in Palestine. It’s known as the Deadly Exchange. As people in Lebanon and the diaspora reacted to the horrors of the tragic explosion in Beirut, the NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau tweeted that they were “closely monitoring” the incident. You...
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Abolition and Restorative Justice: A Book List
What is revolution? What is abolition? How do we get there and how do we take care of one another? These are the questions these books seek to answer. Abolition is a hot topic right now. “Should we defund the police?”, “What does police and prison abolition look like?”, “Does abolition apply to more than...