How to we resist violence? How do we imagine and create community alternatives to carcerality? How do we practice a commitment to abolition?
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
Angela Davis
Reading:
- Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
- Angela Davis. Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons and Torture. New York: Seven Story Press, 2005.
- Nick Estes, “Freedom is a Place: Long Traditions of Anti-colonial Resistance in Turtle Island.” March 23, 2020.
- The following resources in this section are coming from the Abolition Journal’s study guide
- Julia Lurie, “They Built a Utopian Sanctuary in a Minneapolis Hotel. Then They Got Evicted”
- Emily Pothast, “What the Heck is Going On In Seattle?“
- #8toAbolition
Orisanmi Burton’s June 2020 presentation, Abolition 101
Note: Featured image from “DREAMING FREEDOM PRACTICING ABOLITION“