Abolitionist Digest - March ‘23

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

• The Abolitionist No 12 (1982)
  Radical Alternatives to Prison (RAP)

• Disrupting unlawful exclusion from school of minoritised children and young people racialised as Black: Using Critical Race Theory composite counter-storytelling
  Zahra Bei & Helen Knowler

• ‘I can’t breathe’: Race, death and British Policing
  INQUEST

+ EVENTS

• Abolitionist Futures Reading Group
  Next dates: 14 Mar., 28 Mar (19:30 - 21:00)

• On Prisons, Borders, and Abolition
  Panel & fundraiser
  20 Mar. (18:30 - 20:00)
  Cradle Community, Gracie Mae Bradley, Luke de Noronha, in support of Hackney Migrant Centre

+ ARTICLES

• Prisons have never been safe for women – removing trans people won’t change that
  S Lamble

• Justice Comes Home
  Hyejin Shim (CW. Sexual violence) 

• Carceral, classist, racist: the UK’s latest strategy for punishing people who use drugs
  Shayla Schlossenberg & Praveena K. Fernes

• What are the Police? What is Abolition?
  Tapji Garba

+ RECORDINGS

• Abolition Pending Revolution
  Shanice McBean, Aviah Day, Rivkah Brown.

• Abolition for Liberation
  Centre for Law and Social Change
  —with Scott Branson, Lola Olufemi and Puc Reed. Chaired by Natasha Mutch-Vidal.

+ AN ACCOUNT TO FOLLOW: Community Action on Prison Expansion (CAPE)

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