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#KillTheBill Coalition Statement
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is a dangerous and unnecessary piece of legislation that endangers the rights and safety of every single one of us.
#RIPtheIPP Sentences
As we push to #KillTheBill we need to also bring an end to the terrible situation faced by prisoners still on IPP sentences. We need to #RIPtheIPP
Reading group: Lewisham Arthouse
New reading group using our reading list starting soon. Faciliated by Lewisham Arthouse artists’ cooperative, South London
#KILLTHEBILL
A series of online events to support the momentum rising to oppose the draconian Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021. 17/03/2021 & 18/03/2021 & 19/03/2021.
The false promise of hate crime laws
S Lamble writes about the false promise of hate crime, arguing that longer sentences and widening criminalisation does not increase safety for women
Book Club: Mutal Aid by Dean Spade
23/3, 27/4, 25/5 - Abolitionist Futures Book Club. Reading Dean Spade’s Mutual Aid
Event: Justice Means Everyone
17/02/2021 - Justice means everyone is a series of 4 webinars bringing to the fore conversations that occur at the faultlines of the left.
Event: Abolition Struggles and Archives
Join us for a series of workshops where we will be pooling our collective knowledge around current and historical abolitionist struggles.
Event: We Can Build a Better World
We can build a different world is a weekly panel series throughout September 2020 exploring abolition and mutual aid in the UK. This series is organised as a collaboration between Decriminalised Futures, Abolitionist Futures and Verso, with support from Arika.
Practising Everyday Abolition
We cannot simply do away the police - we need to address the conditions in which people feel that police are the only or best option for responding to harm in their lives. We must build other means for preventing and addressing harm that will actually keep us safe.
Abolitionist Digest Vol. 5
Hejera Begum outlines 3 abolitionist reforms for the UK: Banning police being posted in schools, ending stop and search, and abolishing Prevent.
Abolitionist Digest vol. 4: Defund the Police in the UK?
In this Abolitionist Digest, we highlight actions and writing that centres on defunding the police in the UK
Abolitionist Digest Vol. 3
There’s a lot going on in the world of Abolition - Hello Minneapolis - Here’s 5 sources to help you keep up to speed.
Abolitionist Digest Vol. 2
Here’s 5 important abolitionist resources from the last 5 days. Please see below for an important solidarity action!
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.
Defund the Police in the UK
This chart breaks down the difference between reformist reforms which expand the scope of policing, and abolitionist steps that reduce the scale of policing and its detremental impact. It is a UK-relevant resource adapted from a poster created by Critical Resistance in the US.
Posters for imagining abolitionist alternatives
These posters can help us think about what safety is and to imagine the infrastructure we need to keep safe. They were designed by Amber Hughson @conflicttransformation