https://illwill.com/kenosha-i-do-mind-dying
BIPOC Co is working to distribute funds to Kenosha & Madison activists
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(If you are out of the loop, that’s okay! Kyle Rittenhouse is a chud kid who is on trial for murdering two protesters and injuring another in Kenosha, Wisconsin in the aftermath of protests over a police shooting that paralyzed Jacob Blake, a black man. There is a lot of news about the case circling around right now because the trial is ongoing.)
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Please comment any resources, mutual aid groups, etc. And ill add.
"May I add to your resource list a really great website: http://aworldwithoutpolice.org/
And also recommend Assata the autobiography by Assata Shakur. Really shows the pigs for what they are."
Yes, we mean literally abolish the police by Mariame Kaba
##Reading Recommendations
Alexander, M - ‘The New Jim Crow’ (2010)
Davis, A - ‘Are Prisons Obsolete’ (2003)
Jackson, G. - ‘Blood in My Eye’ (1972)
Vitale A.S - ‘The End of Policing’ (2017)
##How to Join
Go to Perusall.com
Create an Account
Click on Enroll in a Course
Enter this code: HAYACA-PVMCJ
Questions you should regularly ask yourself when outraged about injustice:
What resources exist so I can better educate myself?
Who’s already doing work around this injustice?
Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
How can I be constructive?
“In The Spirit of Abolition” - Jailhouse Lawyers Speak Calls For Shut ‘Em Down Demonstrations
“Solidarity Doesn’t Mean Making Statements” - Laura Whitehorn On The Material Practice Of Anti-Racism
Also included are some very good theory recommendations:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete
http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/
https://twitter.com/prisonculture
https://archive.is/XUJu8
https://abolitionistfutures.com/full-reading-list
http://www.deanspade.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Building-an-Abolitionist-Trans-Queer-Movement-With-Everything-Weve-Got.pdf
You’re going crazy because legal-think is so removed from the everyday. I saw a thread talking about how the legally the ruling is correct; and I mean sure, that might be correct, I’m not a lawyer.
But just because something is legal doesn’t make it right, and that’s where the tension is. The legal system is losing validity in real time.
Fuck Rittenhouse and the minivan he rode in on, the game was rigged from the start
Too many law nerds like to pretend laws are consistent and apolitically applied.
They gunned down Michael Reinoehl when he was walking out his apartment, Trump literally called it "retribution", and he was probably doing as much or more self defense than Rittenhouse when he shot his guy but never got a trial which would be a sham because judges can get promoted for conservative bias but not the other way because the Federalist society is a shadowy group has its hands in the appointments of permanent positions.
I dispute that. The Kenosha Killer instigated the confrontation by pointing his gun at Rosenbaum. You can't claim self defense if you started the fight.