Maureen Mansfield Maureen Mansfield

The Function of Police

The police don’t just exist. They are not a fact of nature. The police are brought into existence to serve a function, and a lot of effort and resources are put into keeping them in existence. Why? What are police for? —Produced by The World Transformed, Abolitionist Futures, The Upsetters and Prisoner Solidarity Network

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Maureen Mansfield Maureen Mansfield

Freeing Education — Conversation 1: Deconstruction, Refusal, Departure

A panel to unpick the harms of schooling as part of a wider system of carceral feminism and imperialism, explore transformational work in progress, and take stock of the struggle in education from an international perspective —Organised by No More Exclusions, in collaboration with Haymarket Books, and Hajar Press

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John Moore John Moore

‘Aftermath’ by Preti Taneja

Aftermath starts with grief and shock, a violent act that has left many calling for an intensification of the punitive state. Taneja has resisted this and has instead recommitted herself to abolition which for her, ‘in the widest sense and at the cellular level is a word, a world, a choice to make. A resonance to action’

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