Abolitionist Digest Vol. 1
Our first instalment of Abolitionist Digest focuses on the Black Lives Matter Protests across the states and the atrocious police violence committed in response to the protests and that caused the protests.
Ways to support BLM protests:
Complete this list of practical online ways to support BLM movements in the UK
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Videos/Pictures:
Here are some links to videos documenting police violence against the protests:
https://twitter.com/ladyhaja/status/1267726477275148288 - tear gas on peaceful crowd
https://twitter.com/LasVegasLocally/status/1267210841595604992 - snatching walking man
https://twitter.com/KCJ_Swish/status/1266913464234237954 - taser man in car
https://twitter.com/tkerssen/status/1266921821653385225 - cops shooting paint pellets at people on their doorstep
https://twitter.com/EDDIFUL/status/1267338642617364481 - police on bikes taking down someone walking away
https://twitter.com/PollyWilkins/status/1267761369304256512 - media on protester eye view of cops
https://twitter.com/bbcease/status/1267582823428501508 - Firing tear gas at trapped protesters
https://twitter.com/ScottThuman/status/1267599965309763584 - attacks on media
https://twitter.com/jpegjoshua/status/1267599264257015816 - White Vigilante groups organising with police
https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1267762173100593152 - Tear gas at kneeling protesters outside of White House
https://twitter.com/thepoeticgopher/status/1267481617846743042 - A video from the yard of a police station filled with protestors after mass arrests.
https://twitter.com/4dntworry/status/1267747006979735552 - Rubber bullets against unarmed protesters.
https://twitter.com/IolaElla/status/1267479980381999105 - Police arresting people hailing them to stop people breaking into cars
Some videos of powerful actions of solidarity during the protests.
https://twitter.com/michellebhasin/status/1267476355433877504 - (anti-racist solidarity from white protester)
https://twitter.com/WailQ/status/1266655401963065344 - Cornel West
https://twitter.com/CharlieGileNBC/status/1267251347163877376 - Wind Solidarity
https://twitter.com/keywilliamss/status/1267929996430991360 - LA residents speaking back to cop leaders on Zoom
Some links to failed attempts to respond to protests
https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1267396458136907776 - David Guetta’s remix of Martin Luther King Jr.
https://twitter.com/OzanKamiloglu/status/1267189320177385480 Amazon’s Corporate white-wash of systemic racism.
https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1267162772560896001 - Liberal non-violence cooption of movement figures.
https://twitter.com/ProudSocialist/status/1267504043649187840 - Joe Biden suggesting a useful reform should be to shoot unarmed protesters in the leg.
UK BLM
https://twitter.com/KeejayOV2/status/1267585992044707840 - George the Poet exposing UK police racism on Newsnight
https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/a32742001/marcia-rigg-anti-racism/ - Marcia Rigg on UK police racism.
Reading:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2817-the-end-of-policing - Free E-book of End of Policing
https://www.akpress.org/love-with-accountability-e-book.html - Love with Accountability (and all AK Press E-Books) are 2 US Dollars Right now!
Until Next time! Solidarity.
Tom