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

  • spectre [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It's also a significant reason why cops get off so often, since prosecutors are usually on their same side and have to work with cops fairly regularly. Might not even be fully intentional, but slacking off just a bit gives plenty of room for a "not guilty" to squeeze in.

    Even in this case I can see this headed toward manslaughter or even acquittal with "Chauvin's training failed him and George Floyd, not guilty of murder" which might even be somewhat true (to a certain extent), but then nothing happens after that to actually fix the issue.