#8toabolition

[nando161mando]

#8toabolition #abolish the supreme court #abolish the police #abolish the monarchy #abolish capitalism #abolish prisons #1312 #acab1312 #acab #allcopsarebastards #all cops are bad #all cops are bastards #anti capitalism #antiauthoritarian #antinazi #antinationalist #antiprison #antijail #incarcerated people #humanrights #animalrights #class war #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia

[tacticalhimbo]

#8toAbolition

At their roots, policing and prisons are systems designed to uphold oppression. One thousand people are killed by police every year, and Black people are murdered at three times the rate of white people. Up to fifty percent of people murdered by the police have disabilities. Up to 40% of police officers have perpetrated intimate partner violence, and sexual violence is the second most common form of police brutality, primarily targeting Black women and especially those who are sex workers and drug users. Many of these incidents of police violence are undocumented by studies and only uplifted through grassroots movements. Prisons, police, and prosecutors work closely together to sustain white supremacist, capitalist, ableist, and cisheteropatriarchal systems of extraction and death.

Black people who are women, trans, gender non-conforming, sex working, and queer are often criminalized for actions they take to survive gendered violence, as we have seen in the cases of Tracy McCarter, Alisha Walker, GiGi Thomas, Marissa Alexander, Bresha Meadows, Cyntoia Brown, and many others. We reject the notion of a “perfect survivor”; we do not believe anyone deserves to be caged, nor do we prescribe to the state’s notions of “innocence” and culpability. We recognize that the system of policing is intertwined with the prison and military industrial complex, both here and abroad. In abolishing policing, we seek to abolish imperialist forms of police, such as militaries responsible for generations of violence against Black and brown people worldwide.

We believe in a world where there are zero police murders because there are zero police

See the 8 Steps to Abolition in detail.

These are demands, not requests.

Listen to Black and brown folk. Listen to queer folk. Fight back against the police state. Fight back against Christian nationalism. Fight back against white supremacy.

#txt #important #video #moony.maroon #prison abolition #8toabolition

[starwhoopsass]

Armita Abbasi is going to court, her punishment is execution Say her name and the names of others being executed

#idc if her court date was a month ago #armita abbasi #Youtube #watch the whole thing btw #there's stuff for 8toabolition stuff in there aswell #reblog please

[thatheathen]

Source: sarah.epperson 🌹Roses are red, my rage is too…🤬 (💖🧷 giveaway)

“#DefundThePolice means stop spending tax $ on the dangerous & racist parts of policing & instead invest that $ in community-driven solutions that foster real safety. Rather than endlessly growing police budgets on surveillance, armor & weapons of war, increase funding for things that people really need:

🏡 Affordable Housing

📚 Education

🏥 Healthcare

🧠 Mental-health & Substance-Use Treatment

🚸 Childcare

🌳 Parks & Libraries

#police are not effective responders to #Homelessness, #MentalIllness, #Addiction, school discipline, or any issues that pose no danger to anyone. Relying on the police to “solve” those problems only escalates interactions & unnecessary conflict.” - @benandjerrys

“At its root, policing & prisons are systems designed to uphold oppression.

🛑1,000 people are killed by police every year & Black people are murdered at 3Xthe rate of white people

🛑≤ 50% of people murdered by the police have disabilities

🛑≤ 40% of police officers have perpetrated intimate partner violence & sexual violence is the 2nd most common form of police brutality, primarily targeting Black women & esp. those who are sex workers & drug users. Many of these incidents of police violence are undocumented by studies & only uplifted through grassroots movements. Prisons, police, & prosecutors work closely together to sustain white supremacist, capitalist, ableist & cisheteropatriarchal systems of extraction & death.

8 To Abolition:

Defund the Police

Demilitarize Communities

Remove Police From Schools

Free People From Jails & Prisons

Repeal Laws That Criminalize Survival

Invest In Community Self-Governance

Provide Safe Housing for Everyone

Invest In Care, Not Cops

The end goal of these reforms is not to create better, friendlier, or more community-oriented police or prisons. Instead, we hope to build toward a society w/o police or prisons, where communities are equipped to provide for their safety & well-being. - www.8toAbolition.com

#Sarah #epperson #Sarah epperson #defund the police #8toabolition #8 to abolition #acab #demilitarize the police #fuck the police #abolish ice #feed the poor #house the homeless #fuck the state #roses are red #valentines day #eat the rich #abolish capitalism

[kny111]

Due to the recent protests against police brutality and its continued occurrence in our communities, I’ve been revisiting the military, prison and police industrial complex  (the big three currently securing white supremacist establishment since slave patrolling days) under the context of abolishing them and what their merits are. I found this website ‘8 To Abolition’ simplifying and centering around this conversation and getting to some of the main points the abolition movement has been attempting, clarifying the goals for those who don’t understand. In the next following blog posts as a part of teaching myself and relaying the info to others as well on the specifics of how to decolonize and what it means, this is a start to that:

While communities across the country mourn the loss of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Jamel Floyd, and so many more Black victims of police murder, Campaign Zero released its 8 Can’t Wait campaign, offering a set of eight reforms they claim would reduce police killings by 72%. As police and prison abolitionists, we believe that this campaign is dangerous and irresponsible, offering a slate of reforms that have already been tried and failed, that mislead a public newly invigorated to the possibilities of police and prison abolition, and that do not reflect the needs of criminalized communities.

We honor the work of abolitionists who have come before us, and those who organize now. A better world is possible. We refuse to allow the blatant co-optation of decades of abolitionist organizing toward reformist ends that erases the work of Black feminist theorists. As the abolitionist organization Critical Resistance recently noted, 8 Can’t Wait will merely “improve policing’s war on us.” Additionally, many abolitionists have already debunked the 8 Can’t Wait campaign’s claims, assumptions, and faulty science.

Abolition can’t wait.

At its root, policing is a system designed to uphold oppression. One thousand people are killed by police every year, and Black people are murdered at three times the rate of white people. Up to fifty percent of people murdered by the police have disabilities. Up to 40% of police officers have perpetrated intimate partner violence, and sexual violence is the second most common form of police brutality, primarily targeting Black women and especially those who are sex workers and drug users. Many of these incidents of police violence are undocumented by studies and only uplifted through grassroots movements. Black people who are women, trans, gender non-conforming, sex working, and queer are often criminalized for actions they take to survive gendered violence, as we have seen in the cases of Tracy McCarter, Chrystul Kizer, Alisha Walker, GiGi Thomas, Marissa Alexander, Bresha Meadows, Cyntoia Brown, and many others. We reject the notion of a “perfect survivor”; we do not believe anyone deserves to be caged, nor do we prescribe to the state’s notions of “innocence” and culpability. We recognize that the system of policing is heavily intertwined with the military industrial complex, both here and abroad. In abolishing policing, we seek to abolish imperialist forms of police, such as militaries responsible for generations of violence against Black and brown people worldwide.

As abolitionists, we recognize that reforms that do not reduce the power of the police–including those proposed by 8 Can’t Wait–simply create new opportunities to surveil, police, and incarcerate Black, brown, indigenous, poor, disabled, trans, gender oppressed, queer, migrant people, and those who work in street economies. We believe in a world where there are zero police murders because there are zero police, not because police are better trained or better regulated—indeed, history has shown that ending police violence through more training or regulations is impossible.

We also recognize that all police and prisons will not disappear tomorrow. Instead, we believe in the strategic importance of non-reformist reforms, or measures that reduce the scale, scope, power, authority, and legitimacy of criminalizing institutions. We also recognize carceral agents’ constant attempts to co-opt and rebrand abolition through the language of harm reduction, as we are currently witnessing with the #8CantWait campaign. We envision abolition as not only a matter of tearing down criminalizing systems such as police and prisons that shorten the lives of Black, brown, and poor people, but also a matter of building up life-sustaining systems that reduce, prevent, and better address harm. We seek a reparations model, wherein our communities that have been harmed by policing and mass criminalization for centuries are given their due from every corporation and institution that has profited from policing.

To build an abolitionist world that prioritizes the lives of Black people, we have drawn upon decades of abolitionists’ work to compile this list of demands targeted toward city and municipal powers. Honoring the long history of abolitionist struggle, we join in their efforts to divest from the prison industrial complex, invest in our communities, and create the conditions for our ultimate vision: a world without police, where no one is held in a cage, and all people thrive and be well.

#decolonialism #decolonization #colonialism #white supremacy #white supremacist capitalist patriarchy #prison industrial complex #police state #military industrial complex #info #information #abolition #abolitionist movement #8toabolition #blm #black lives matter

[womanistgrrrl]

Ladies! Let’s Listen to Lectures!

By Adilah Didi Adi | September 22, 2020

Beloveds, How you dey? What up doe? Wa gwan?

I hope our “Ladies! Let’s Listen to Lectures” blog series meets you hydrated, held, and surrounded by blossoming mutual aid groups, susu circles, and eviction defense collectives.

In times of patriarchal, colonial, capitalist, and racist catastrophe, like the ones we are in now, it is easy for us to fall into despair. I too have had my fair share of depressive episodes and bouts of anxiety this year. 

Through the lows, I’ve stayed grounded and stabilized by listening to Black Feminist and Wominist lectures because knowledge of the tools to defend myself, survive, and thrive is medicinal. And because knowledge of how to support communal defense, survival, and abundance is healing.

If you are looking for some Black Feminist and Wominist lectures to keep you grounded and inform you of the necessary tools to defend yourself and community during this catastrophe, please listen to:

1. Angela Davis “Frameworks For Radical Feminism”

2. Millennials Are Killing Capitalism “#8ToAbolition featuring Nnennaya Amuchie, Rachel Kuo, Eli, Micah Herskind and Reina Sultan” 

3. Left POCket Project Podcast  “29. Angela Davis’s Abolition Democracy Pt1 - Reading Revolution”

4. Left POCket Project Podcast “31. Angela Davis’s Abolition Democracy Pt. 2 - Reading Revolution” 

5.  A Little Juju Podcast “Ep. 47 Divination 4 Liberation (Sidereal Astrology w: @PeoplesOracle)“

I hope these lectures bring us the knowledge and tools we need to continue the transformative justice work in our communities! Sending you all peace, love, and warmth. 

#Ladies! Let's Listen to Lectures! #Lectures #Pedagogy & Politics #Angela Davis #Black Socialism #Black Communism #Black Feminist Anarchism #Black Women Radicals #Womanism #Black Feminism #Wominism #8toabolition #8 to abolition #left pocket podcast #Abolition Democracy #Nnennaya Amuchie #Rachel Kuo #Micah Herskind and Reina Sultan #a little juju podcast #african spirituality #womanist theology #black spirituality

[paranoidalive]

"Abolition must be Red, Green, and International" - Ruth Wilson Gilmore • abolition of prisons and police is a necessary step in our path towards destroying capitalism, US imperialism, and white supremacy, and building an equitable world. • if this—abolition—seems “unrealistic,” like we’re “asking for too much,” or you object to it on premises of “public safety,” i ask that you read throughout wealth of abolitionist scholarship, research, writing, essays, books, and organizing before commenting. #8ToAbolition https://www.instagram.com/p/CBJFnaxpWdb/?igshid=11dq9dz62pak3

#8toabolition

[tetraghost]

8 to Abolition

“We honor the work of abolitionists who have come before us, and those who organize now. A better world is possible. We refuse to allow the blatant co-optation of decades of abolitionist organizing toward reformist ends that erases the work of Black feminist theorists. As the abolitionist organization Critical Resistance recently noted, 8 Can’t Wait will merely “improve policing’s war on us.” Additionally, many abolitionists have already debunked the 8 Can’t Wait campaign’s claims, assumptions, and faulty science.

The end goal of these reforms is not to create better, friendlier, or more community-oriented police or prisons. Instead, we hope to build toward a society without police or prisons, where communities are equipped to provide for their safety and well being.”

a number of abolitionists who have long been working towards a future without policing or incarceration put these demands together as a response to the heavily reformist #8CantWait demands. we can do so much better than 72% less police violence, we can imagine and build a future with no police violence, no imperialism, no prisons. 

additional resources on abolition

#8toabolition #police abolition #prison abolition #abolition #8cantwait

[crimsonhermesseras]

Read and pass it along!!

#8toabolition #abolish prisons #defund police

[jacobwren]

https://www.8toabolition.com

#8toabolition

[dmnsqrl]

#8toabolition https://www.8toabolition.com/remove-police-from-schools https://www.instagram.com/p/CBLWbCXjMzbn06j15HSlyqy_IaENglwKTnYXuo0/?igshid=rthwa1d5qyxj

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[donaldmckenzie]

#8toabolition (at Brooklyn Bridge) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBjsASMgHqq/?igshid=2lkj7knix5a6

#8toabolition

[headunderheals]

Repost from @elizabethrestaurant_and_co • Say their names. #riahmilton #remmiefells #tonymcdade #layleenpolanco #defundthepolice #8toabolition #policebrutality #blm #blacklivesmatter #blacktranslivesmatter https://www.instagram.com/p/CBcQHCGj4u3/?igshid=kvfli8imibc3

#riahmilton #remmiefells #tonymcdade #layleenpolanco #defundthepolice #8toabolition #policebrutality #blm #blacklivesmatter #blacktranslivesmatter

[thats-ms-pouffiasse-to-you]

Already did #8cantwait? Next step is #8toabolition ✊🏿 . . . #blacklivesmatter #defundthepolice #defundpolice #justice #socialjustice #justiceforgeorgefloyd #justiceforbreonnataylor #demilitarizecommunities #nocopsinschools #releaseprisoners #decriminalizesurvival #investinyourcommunity #runforoffice #runforlocaloffice #safespace #ally #investincare #instagood #instamood #igaddict #humanrights #igdaily #photooftheday #picoftheday #infographic #learn https://www.instagram.com/p/CBWCgllpTRm/?igshid=68dgmmgdakhh

#8cantwait #8toabolition #blacklivesmatter #defundthepolice #defundpolice #justice #socialjustice #justiceforgeorgefloyd #justiceforbreonnataylor #demilitarizecommunities #nocopsinschools #releaseprisoners #decriminalizesurvival #investinyourcommunity #runforoffice #runforlocaloffice #safespace #ally #investincare #instagood #instamood #igaddict #humanrights #igdaily #photooftheday #picoftheday #infographic #learn

[lindablatt]

#teachthebabies #neverunderestimatetheyouth #DefendBlackLife #8toabolition #DefundPolice . . #Repost @ariaisadora (@get_repost) ・・・ 6.7.20 Brooklyn. Hundreds of students marched with their peers from FGP to Borough hall. They spoke out to each other with clarity about what they want, need and demand. This was organized by the students and led by the students. As a mother of two NYC teens I could not be more proud and in awe of these young people. #2020protests #listentoouryouth #leadtheway #nycstudents4justice https://www.instagram.com/p/CBOWAf0HT1c/?igshid=rgrabrwi78as

#teachthebabies #neverunderestimatetheyouth #defendblacklife #8toabolition #defundpolice #repost #2020protests #listentoouryouth #leadtheway #nycstudents4justice

[ferociousdanimal]

#8toabolition