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)
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Questions you should regularly ask yourself when outraged about injustice:
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“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
Bad apples, jury found him innocent, we need the police yada yada
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I remember someone on the sub was saying that we need to abolish police and Target/Amazon need to pay for their own security. I usually leave the yelling at bad takes to other users, but I had no choice but to step in hard on that one lol.
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As usual, when liberal dorks appropriate left terminology and make it fucking hard to talk about "police abolition" in a way that actually makes sense. As much as I can't stand cops and all that, you can't just press the "abolish police" button in 2021 without doing the political groundwork to build other ways of doing the things that police do.
It's actually good when someone investigates murders and rapes. Let's set up an agency to do that. It's also good to do wellness checks and provide emergency counseling to people who are in a mental health crisis. Police are obviously inadequately trained for this, and we will need a separate agency to do this as well.
It's bad to damage the personal property of other workers, to beat your wife and kids, and to smuggle drugs. Let's give people opportunities to work jobs that don't alienate them from their labor and earn a decent living. Let's decriminalize drug posession and sales, and legalize some of the less harmful ones.
Once we make headway on these things, we can start working on disbanding police altogether. It starts with disbanding the capitalist mode of production that they are designed to enforce.