Event: Abolition Struggles and Archives

Wednesday 18th November 6-8pm BST
Saturday 21 November 1-4pm BST

Join us for a series of workshops where we will be pooling our
collective knowledge around current and historical abolitionist
struggles. The first workshop will provide an insight into recent abolitionist
organising and outline what abolition could look like in the British
context. The workshop will cover struggles against police, prisons and
immigration policing, and the work of building and rooting abolitionist
and emancipatory politics - with organisers from the Reclaim Holloway
campaign and campaigners against immigration policing.

Recently we have been developing an archival collection around prison
abolition and police abolition. This is in it's early stages but we are
inviting those attending the workshop to bring contribution that you
think might be relevant to this collection or speaks to your own work.
We mean material in the broadest sense of the world - it could be a
poster, meme, note, flyer, audio recording, pamphlet, gif etc.

During the second half of the workshop we will be showing you the
archival material we have been gathering as part of our online archive
Leftove.rs. Then we will be discussing how this and the material that
you bring can be turned into an online resource about abolitionist
struggles past and present. A second session on Saturday 21 November
1-4pm GMT will involve delving into our personal archives and May Day
Rooms online collections to generate an online scrapbook together.

If you would like to send any documents in advance please send them to
anthony@maydayrooms.org and we can share them on the screen during the
session.

Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/abolition-struggles-and-archives-tickets-128107046625