The Racial Violence Hub

Anti-Violence Strategies: Abolition

image from “DREAMING FREEDOM PRACTICING ABOLITION“

How to we resist violence? How do we imagine and create community alternatives to carcerality? How do we practice a commitment to abolition?

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Orisanmi Burton’s June 2020 presentation, Abolition 101

The brute racial fact of this deadly European border regime is seldom acknowledged, because it immediately confronts us with the cruel (post)coloniality of the “new” Europe. In the face of the inevitable and ever-more bountiful harvest of empire, past and present, the mobility of the vast majority of people from formerly colonized countries – indeed, the vast majority of humanity – has been preemptively illegalized.

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