Abolitionist Digest - September ‘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

• On Solidarity
  Mie Inouye, Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes, et al.

+ EVENTS

• Our Bodies – Our lives – Our Right to Decide
  Demo / 2 Marsham St., London
  2 Sept. (12:00-15:00)

• Campaign for Psych Abolition Open Assembly
  The Field Social Centre, London
  3 Sept. (19:00 - 21:00)

• Accidental Death of an Anarchist & Panel discussion with INQUEST
  Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
  5 Sept. (19:30 - 21:00)

• Preparing for the impact of the Illegal Migration Act
  Online / Right to Remain
  6 Sept. (11:00 - 12:00)

• Un/making narrative: conversation on grassroots organising w/Nijjor Manush
  Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives
  7 Sept. (17:00 - 19:00)

• Justice for Chris Kaba
  TBC
  9 Sept. —Save the Date

• Transformative Justice Café
  Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh / Spit it Out
  10 Sept. (Ticketed workshop: 10:00 - 12:00 / Drop-in: 13:00 - 18:00)

• Migrant Justice Day - Stop the Arms Fair
  ExCeL London
  12 Sept. (8:30 - 19:00)

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

• Woodhill —LUNG and The North Wall
  Theatre & Performance
  Shoreditch Town Hall
  20 Sept. - 7 Oct. (19:30)

• Love Beyond the Binary series
  Book club / Shado Mag
  All About Love (26 Sept.) / 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)

• 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)

+ ARTICLES

• The Abolitionist No. 17 (1984)
  Intro by John Moore

• 1,000 cops in our schools
  Sinai Fleary

• Criminalising dissent: how the police label political protest as a “threat”
  Netpol

• Why we don’t use the language of ‘contribution’
  Migrants' Rights Network

• New protest laws won’t deter us from resisting one of the world’s largest arms fairs
  Emily Apple

• ‘I never knew what horrors were happening in there’: the show giving Woodhill prisoners’ bereaved families a voice
  Simon Hattenstone

+ RECORDINGS

• The Function of the Police
  Produced by THE UPSETTERS, Abolitionist Futures, Prisoner Solidarity Network and The World Transformed.

• An Introduction to Family Policing Abolition
  The upEND Podcast

+ GROUPS WE LOVE: Kids of Colour

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