Our new police abolition essay "Kick the Cops off Your Block" is now available on substack. This essay gives an analysis of the police, many alternatives to the police, and ways to get to a world without hierarchical security forces and what they enforce

https://usufructcollective.substack.com/p/kick-the-cops-off-your-block

#anarchism #police #policeabolition #anarchy #socialism #communism #prison #prisonabolition #abolition #abolitionism #acab #cops #communal #utopia #praxis
#directaction #mutualaid #mediation
#transformativejustice
#restorativejustice #selfdefense #mediation #freeassociation #hierarchy #equality #statecraft #capitalism

Today in #Connecticut History, August 24: U. S. Navy Intercepts “The Long, Low Black Schooner” Amistad

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https://todayincthistory.com/2023/08/24/august-24-capture-of-the-slave-ship-amistad-3/

#19thcentury #abolitionism #africanamericanhistory #amistad #august #connecticuthistory #johnquincyadams #laamistad #law #legalhistory #newhaven #rogershermanbaldwin #slavery #slaveryandabolition #supremecourt

#histodons can anyone recommend anything on the intersectionality of thr abolitionist and suffragette movements? And how the suffragettes came to exclude Black liberation from their work?

#histodon #history #ushistory #abolitionism #blackhistory #womenshistory

"The system is rotten to the core".
In der Rede von Vanessa E. Thompson ging es um abolitionistische Alternativen zur Polizei & Staatsgewalt und wie wir alle Unterdrückungssysteme abbauen können und müssen.

#Abolitionism #justice4mouhamed

“Active intervention of friends, neighbours, passers-by would prevent a large proportion of conflicts. Let it be everybody’s duty… to interfere between fighting people, and police will not be required at all,” (Kropotkin 1902). In the case of unjust violence, persons have the right to defend themselves and defend others. When possible, this can take the forms of breaking up fights as well as many people taking up the initiative to do so. When breaking up a fight is not as immediately possible, there can be more escalated forms of self-defense and defense of others as needed until the violation of freedom caused through unjust violence ceases. Self defense and defense of others is rooted in stopping harm and preserving the right to self-management of each and all. Defense of self-management through self-management provides a standard of violence against a monopolization thereof. This approach of self defense and defense of others means that the least violent possible methods are used to protect the self-management of each and all (for through such an approach, defensive violence is done away with as soon as possible to do so without enabling destruction of freedom/greater harm). Self-defense on a communal scale can mean collectively organized defense against hierarchical rule and domination.

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/06/04/kick-the-cops-off-your-block-2/

#anarchism #anarchy #socialism #communism #communalism #abolition #abolitionism #police #cops #prisons #kropotkin #selfdefense #violence

Gary L. Francione

https://www.abolitionistapproach.com/the-trans-rights-issue-equality-claims-and-belief-claims/

Ist das jetzt ein männlicher TERF? X)

Ich bin jedenfalls SEHR angetan von ihm.

#Francione #Abolitionist #abolitionism

Today in #Connecticut History, June 24: Scandal-Plagued Celebrity Minister Henry Ward Beecher

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https://todayincthistory.com/2023/06/24/june-24-born-to-fame-and-scandal-celebrity-minister-henry-ward-beecher-2/

#19thcentury #abolitionism #antislavery #beechertiltonscandal #civilwar #connecticutauthors #connecticuthistory #henrybeecher #henrywardbeecher #june #litchfield #religioushistory #scandals #slavery

I became an abolitionist when I understood the function of police and realized that to me nothing they protect was worth having at the price of the deadly violence they inflict on my neighbors, my family, my beloved community. I became an anarchist when I understood that every other form of social organization requires police for its very existence.

#Anarchy #Anarchism #Abolition #Abolitionism #NoMorePolice

New essay on Police Abolition. Includes a critique and analysis of the police and other state security forces, some good enough non-state forms of conflict resolution and the like, as well ways to get from here to a world without police.

Heavily influenced by anarchism, transformative justice, and broader police abolitionist movements.

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/06/04/kick-the-cops-off-your-block-2/

#anarchism #acab #abolitionism #libertariancommunism #libertariansocialism #transformativejustice #mediation #selfdefense #freeassociation #allcopsarebastards

This kind of thing – the liberal mainstream dipping a toe into police #abolitionism, and discovering it doesn’t necessarily entrain the CHAZ-style mayhem they’ve been led to believe it invariably results in – will be terribly important in consolidating public opinion behind the reduction of #policing in our lives. Just as nothing will happen without activists pushing the Overton window hard from the left, neither will abolition come to pass if Times readers don’t buy in. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/nyregion/brooklyn-brownsville-no-police.html

Happy Birthday to African-American abolitionist Eliza Ann Gardner, born in New York City #OnThisDay in 1831. Gardner was one of the founders of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs and founded the missionary society of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (AMEZ) & advocated for women's equality in the church. An A.M.E. Zion Church in Springfield, Massachusetts is named in her honor.

#WomensHistory #BlackHistory #ReligiousHistory #History #Abolitionism #histodons

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Lawyers, legal scholars, legal allies, legal professionals, law students, and advocates:
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THIS SATURDAY: Join us for a powerful and transformative interactive abolitionist art exhibit

We will OCCUPY a Toronto courtroom
and UPLIFT the voices of Black, Indigenous, racialized incarcerated men
on what is needed for REAL COMMUNITY SAFETY

The City of Toronto prioritizes carceral responses to harm, funding increased policing and prisons, despite evidence of their racist and violent nature causing more harm.

We need to shift our priorities towards community-led solutions that centre the safety and well-being of all, particularly those most impacted by structural violence.

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WHEN: Saturday, April 15th,
1:30pm - 3:30pm

WHERE: Courtroom
60 Queen St W
Toronto

WHO: Anyone in the "legal community" (see website below for more details)

REGISTER: Behind the Bars - Real Community Safety PWYC

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-toronto-mans-reflection-vol-3-behind-the-bars-tickets-593311158647
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#legal #LawMastodon #AbolitionIsTheAnswer #abolitionism #Art #Toronto #TorontoActions #TorontoActivists #ArtExhibitions #ThisWeekend

"We, refugees from the ethnic cleansing, were already treated as a dirt and parasites in our home country, now we are only allowed to live on the water and to have the task to keep everything clean on land. We clean their houses and sleep on the water at night so as not to contaminate their land with our presence." Adnan Softić

#ICYMI watch the panel "Constellation of offshore detention" with Jens Kambeck, Adnan Softić, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Sean Vegezzi: https://dnlb.org/a

#SmartPrisons #prisons #abolitionism #refugees

Should #EffectiveAltruism Take #Abolitionism More Seriously?

Dhruv Makwana joins me for Ep: 150 of the #Sentientism podcast & YouTube.

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/Njb1YvAopyb
https://youtu.be/PsUPUJIHVvg

Panel: "Constellations of Offshore Detention".

This panel discusses offshore detention facilities as a technique of border demarcation, surveillance, and control of society.

In #Berlin & streaming: https://dnl29.vado.li.
March 24, 5pm CET.

#SmartPrisons #surveillance #abolitionism #control #prisons #borders

Today in #Connecticut History, February 19: Roger Sherman Baldwin: Governor, Senator, but Most of All, Abolitionist

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https://todayincthistory.com/2023/02/19/february-19-roger-sherman-baldwin-governor-senator-but-most-of-all-abolitionist-2/

#19thcentury #abolitionism #amistad #connecticutgovernors #connecticuthistory #connecticutpoliticians #cuba #february #johnquincyadams #legalhistory #litchfieldlawschool #mendi #newhaven

Of Abortion and Abolition
I discovered a bizarre fringe wing of anti-abortion Christian Nationalists this week. Abortion “abolitionists.”
#abolishabortion #abortionabolition #policeabolition #abolitionism #abolishthepolice #Abortion #pro-choice #prisonabolition #abortionrights #pro-life #reproductivejustice #abolition #slavery
https://sheseeksnonfiction.blog/2023/02/12/of-abortion-and-abolition/

Comment pouvons nous lutter contre les abus du capitalisme si nous ne sommes pas capables de résoudre les abus/conflits dans nos communautés? Apprendre comment résoudre les petits abus communautaires avant de vouloir s'attaquer aux plus gros. #TransformativeJustice #abolitionism

#Abolitionism
#ThomasWentworthHigginson (December 22, 1823 – May 9, 1911) was an American #Unitarian #minister, author, #abolitionist, #politician, and #soldier. He was active in the @American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with #disunion and #militant abolitionism. He was a member of the #SecretSix who supported #JohnBrown. During the #CivilWar, he served as colonel of the #1stSouthCarolinaVolunteers, the first federally authorized #blackregiment, from 1862 to 1864.[1] Following the war, he wrote about his experiences with African American soldiers and devoted much of the rest of his life to fighting for the rights of freed people, women, and other disfranchised peoples.

#SocialEcology and the New #Abolitionism

https://harbinger-journal.com/issue-2/editorial-social-ecology-and-the-new-abolitionism/