Chauvin Trial Day 14 pt 1
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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

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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

  • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    literal nuremberg defense https://news.yahoo.com/derek-chauvin-legal-team-says-112404611.html

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      4 years ago

      I keep thinking about this, because they're right. Cops are trained to see everyone as either a cop, a civvie, or a bad guy. If they're trying to get you to do something and you're not 110% compliant, you're a bad guy, and they're not trained to care about the safety of bad guys.

      Failing to convict would of course be open endorsement of extrajudicial execution of black people by the state, but even if they somehow send him to prison, they're not going to do anything about the fact that cops are always the powerful doing violence to the powerless, and that more cops means more violence.

    • hauntedjetty [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      "your honor, our client is too much of a dipshit psychopath to consider any action outside of his training"

      • Multihedra [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I’m reminded of this quote:

        Simple pig types can only learn to function by rote and in cycles. Procedure must be drilled into them and only seldom if ever changed. It is quite easy for a pig to perform a particular function the same way, time after time, once he has learned the function; it is not so easy to vary, especially when there are great numbers of the same types of individuals involved. What would be the result if each pig were given a different job each day in a different area or if he had to vary his code every week or think for himself just one eight-hour shift? Chaos. If it weren’t for the sergeant or lieutenant and a routine, when the average pig ran out of gas, his car would have to be pushed out of the street by the citizenry; when his bullets ran out he would have only a club until he could check with the captain.

        • George Jackson, Blood in My Eye