Abolitionist Digest - October ‘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

• Abolition Revolution
  By Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean

• The Abolitionist Magazine Archive 1979 - 1987
  Digital archive compiled by Abolitionist Futures

• Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics
  By Michael Richmond and Alex Charnley

+ EVENTS

• Shut down Derwentside
  National protest
  15 October

• Abolitionist Futures Book Club: Race to the Bottom Reclaiming Antiracism
  Book club - Register!
  17 Oct. / 21 Nov. / 12 Dec.
  19:00 - 20:30

• The Politics of Abolitionistm
  Free online course
  20 October (1st of 8 sessions)

• UFFC Annual Procession
  29 October
  United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC)

+ ARTICLES

• Remembering prison struggles from 50 years ago
  By Shaïn Morisse

• On diversion: Against carcerality and prohibition on the road to abolition
  Juan Fernández Ochoa 

• The Manchester Ten
  By Roxy Legane

• Automated Policing Helped Kill Chris Kaba
  By Griff Ferris

• Overpoliced and adultified: how the justice system is failing autistic Black people
  By Riann Phillip

• Yellowjackets shows a world without police as disorderly. Abolitionists aren't buying it.
  By Molly Lipson / Scalawag Magazine 

+ RECORDINGS

• A note on design: What is the structure of the everyday?
  Lola Olufemi / Abolition Feminism: Breaking Free from the Master's Tools

• Ruthie Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore in conversation
  Keynote from ‘Abolition Feminism: Breaking Free from the Master's Tools’

• In Conversation with Alison Phipps
  Keynote from ‘Abolition Feminism: Breaking Free from the Master's Tools’

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