Abolitionist Digest - December ‘22

A selection of recent and forthcoming resources. Want to bring one to our attention? Drop us a line on social media or by e-mail.

+ PUBLICATIONS

• Prison Break - Imagining Alternatives to Prison in the UK: Abolition Science Fiction
  Ed. by Crockett Thomas

• The Abolitionist No. 6 (1980)
  Radical Alternatives to Prison (RAP)

• Alternatives to Holloway (1972)
  Radical Alternatives to Prison (RAP)

+ EVENTS

• Open Wounds
  Exhibition by Tottenham Rights
  24 Oct. 2022 - 24 Mar. 2023

• Abolition Revolution
  Book launch event
  10 Dec. (17:45 – 23:30)

• Abolitionist Futures Book Club: Race to the Bottom Reclaiming Antiracism
  Reading group
  12 Dec. (19:00 - 20:30)

• SOAS Detainee Support —Visitor training
  12 Dec. (18:00 - 20:00)

• SOAS Detainee Support —Legal training
  13 Dec. (18:00 - 20:00)

• The Abolitionist: Rewind Series —Session 3: Deaths in Custody
  Panel & discussion
  15 Dec (19:30 - 21:00)

+ ARTICLES

• School exclusions are symptoms of a failing system not a failing student
  Caitlin Hoyland

• U.K. Doubles Down on a Tactic Disproportionately Targeting Black People
  Jane Bradley

• Coercion and control: How the police abuse the working class
  Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean

• Why Are We Still Pretending This Police Watchdog Is Independent?
  Larry Lock

• A cartography of police violence
  Rohan Rice

+ RECORDINGS

• Deaths of racialised people in prison 2015 – 2022: Challenging racism and discrimination
  INQUEST

• No borders! No prisons! No cops! No war! No state?
  Barnard Center for Research on Women —a conversation withHarsha Walia, William Anderson, Gord Hill, and Dean Spade

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