Abolitionist Digest - March ‘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 (forthcoming)

• The Moon Spins The Dead Prison | An Anthology of Abolition
  Multiple authors

• Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order
  Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, Brian Roberts

+ EVENTS

• Decriminalised Futures
  Exhibition at the ICA
  16 February - 22 May

• Abolition in Education: NME Birmingham FAQ launch
  In-person launch event 
  6 March
  No More Exclusions, Gap Arts Centre, a is for activism, Red Fight Back, YARD

• Mutual Aid
  4-day series of workshops and panels.
  09 - 13 March
  Arika

• Patrisse Cullors: An Abolitionist Journey
  In -person book launch 
  11 March 
  WoW Festival, Southbank

• Police are the perpetratros - One year from Clapham Common vigil
  Gathering - New Scotland Yard
  12 March 
  Sisters Uncut

• Policing the Crisis, Revisited
  Public lecture by Ruth Wilson Gilmore  
  14 March 
  Department of Sociology, LSE
  

+ ARTICLES

• Oh Angela! Policing the crisis will never solve the economic or policing crisis - John Moore

• ‘I have a lot of resentment’: Patrisse Cullors on co-founding Black Lives Matter, the backlash – and why the police must go - Nesrine Malik

• Beyond Private Prisons -Silky Shah

+ RECORDINGS

• Naomi Murakawa & #BlackLivesMatter: Liberals, Guns and the Roots of the U.S. Prison Explosion - The Laura Flanders Show, with Naomi Murakawa

• Criminalisation of Solidarity - ‘Justice means everyone’ series (2/4) - Abolitionist Futures, Pluto Press  

• Abolition on the Ground: Reporting from the Movement to #DefundthePolice - Barnard Center for Research on Women, with Angélica Cházaro, Erica Perry, and Andrea Ritchie, moderated by Dean Spade

+ AN ACCOUNT TO FOLLOW: Decriminalised Futures

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