Abolitionist Digest - June ‘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

• Race to the Bottom. Reclaiming Antiracism
  By Azfar Shafi and Ilyas Nagdee 

• Protecting protest - Police treatment of Legal Observers
  By Netpol and Article 11 Trust

• Abolition Revolution
  By Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean

+ EVENTS

• Reclaiming antiracism
  Panel discussion
  9 June
  Pluto Press

• Beyond Punishment and Control: Film, Conversations & Reimagining Ways of Being Together
  Panels, workshops & film screenings
  4 & 18 June (Cardiff)
  Gentle/Radical

• Lady of the Night School - ‘Sex Worker Art and Creative Practices’
  Seminar/Lecture series
  6 June (3rd event)
  Decriminalised Futures

• #10YearsTooLong: Week of Action to End the Hostile Environment!
  Multiple events
  13-19 June 
  Solidarity Knows No Borders Network 

• Abolitionist Futures Get Involved session
  21 June

• Big Abolitionist Summer Social (Save the date!)
  Stalls / Potluck / Music / Activities
  3 July Finsbury Park
  Abolitionist Futures, Bent Bars, CAPE, Hackney Copwatch, No More Exclusions, Sisters Uncut

• Race, Class & Colonialism
  Summer school
  3 - 4 August
  Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project, Knowledge is Power programme (BSix).

+ ARTICLES

• Why despite being arrested during police intervention, I’d do it again

• Ten boys are being locked up for offences they didn’t all commit
  By Sophia Purdy-Moore

• ‘I got fed up with my students ending up in prison or dead’: the teacher fighting to end school exclusions
  By Sally Weale

+ RECORDINGS

• Black Feminist Struggle and the Transnational Politics of Abolition

• Would you rather be pro-police or anti-police?

• Reclaiming Anti-racism w/ Ilyas Nagdee and Azfar Shafi

+ AN ACCOUNT TO FOLLOW: Prisoner Solidarity Network

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