Abolitionist Digest - September ‘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

• No More Police. A Case For Abolition
  Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie

+ EVENTS

• Back to School: Resistance training with Copwatch Network
  Online training
  12-19 September
  Copwatch Network

• Abolition Feminism: Breaking Free from The Master’s Tools
  2x half-day online event
  15 - 16 September

• Abolition Geography with Ruth Wilson Gilmore
  Online seminar
  29 September
  Department of Geography, University of Sussex

• Shut down Derwentside
  National protest
  15 October

• Abolitionist Futures Book Club: Race to the Bottom Reclaiming Antiracism
  [SAVE THE DATES]
  17 Oct. / 21 Nov. / 12 Dec.
  19:00 - 20:30

+ ARTICLES

• ‘Police don’t produce safety’: the Black feminist scholars fighting for abolition
  By Sam Levin

• What do calls for ‘abolition’ really mean?
  By Emily Kenway / Open Democracy

• English Prisons To-day, and today
  By John Moore

• I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health
  By Sanah Ahsan

+ RECORDINGS

• Abolition in the UK: The failure of reform & The function of the police
  The World Transformed, Abolitionist Futures, The Upsetters and Prisoner Solidarity Network

  Abolishing Prisons Is Only the Start—With Ruth Wilson Gilmore
  Novara Media

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