Abolitionist Digest - October ‘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

• Free Them All: A Feminist Call to Abolish the Prison System
  Gwenola Ricordeau

• Border abolitionism: Migrants' containment and the genealogies of struggles and rescue
  Martina Tazzioli

+ EVENTS

• The World Transformed 2023
  Multiple events —incl. ‘Austerity, Cops and Abolition’ (8 Oct.), ‘The Kids Aren't Alright: Reimagining Education’ (8 Oct.), ‘Let This Radicalise You’ (11 Oct.)
  7 - 11 Oct.  

• "Tout le monde déteste la police": Resisting police violence from Nanterre to London
  Panel
  Justice 4 Nahel London, Black Lives Matter UK, Abolitionist Futures, LCAPSV, and others.
  11 Oct. (19:00) 

• Rehearsing Freedoms
  Multi-site festival of community health, healing, movement building, arts and culture
  Healing Justice Ldn & Kin Structures
  11 Oct. - 11 Nov.

• Abolishing the University & Borders in Higher Education
  Conference
  12 Oct.  (11:00 - 19:30)

• Autumn Book Club 2023: Abolition Revolution
  Online / Abolitionist Futures
  17 Oct. / 21 Nov.  (19:30 - 21:00)

• Love Beyond the Binary series
  Book club / Shado Mag
  They Call It Love (24 Oct.) / The Prophets (28 Nov.) — (19:00-20:00) 

• PalFest Presents: Nakba - A Century of Resistance & Solidarity
  Performances & reflection
  Royal Geographic Society, London / Palestine Festival of Literature
  27 Oct. (19:30 - 21:00)

• United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC) - Annual memorial procession
  March
  28 Oct. (Noon)

• Migration is life! How do we resist borders in the everyday?
  Workshops / PAFRAS, Racial Justice Network, Yorkshire Resists, Stop the Scan, Leeds Anti-Raids Action and Patients Not Passport
  The Middle Floor, Leeds
  11 Nov. (14:00-18:00)

• Transatlantic Dialogues: A Symposium on Race, Imprisonment, and Transformative Justice
  University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
  St. John’s College Divinity School, Cambridge
  16 Nov. (14:30-18:00)

• Chile —50 years of solidarity and resistance
  Multiple events until 31 Dec. commemorating the military coup against Salvador Allende

+ ARTICLES

• Joint enterprise, ‘gangs’ and racism: time to halt this continued injustice
  Becky Clarke

• Healing justice and resistance in the ends
  Alex Augustin, Healing Justice Ldn 

• Containing ‘Victims’: Border Control and the Carceral State
  Books Against Borders

• The floating prison and uncharted waters of UK offshore immigration detention
  Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara & Natasha Phang Lee

• The 'Think Family Education application': a system used to monitor, profile and criminalise schoolchildren
  Fair Trials
  

+ RECORDINGS

• Tout le Monde Déteste la Police | A Brief History of Racialised Communities in France
  Justice 4 Nahel London, Black Lives Matter UK, Abolitionist Futures, LCAPSV, and others.

• Sex Work, Policing, and Border Abolition
  With ​​Harsha Walia, Chanelle Gallant, Elene Lam, Robyn Maynard

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