Posts Tagged ‘abolition’

Michigan university union demands police ‘abolition,’ no-cost abortions, ‘gender-affirming care’

(FOX News) — The University of Michigan’s graduate employees union petitioned for the abolition of campus police and expanded access to abortion during bargaining sessions with university officials, according to the union’s 2022-2023 contact campaign. The Graduate Employees’ Organizations’ (GEO) proposal includes establishing on-demand abortion access to… Source Views: 0

XXI Century: The Abolition of Israeli Expansionist Colonial Anachronism

13 Nov 2021 Source: Al Mayadeen Net Susana Khalil There will be no free and peaceful Arab-Persian world as long as the Israeli colonial Euro-Zionist regime exists. I. By way of dialogue 1907       ABDALLAH: Mustafa, British colonialism prepared a scientific report (Bannerman), in order to prolong itself as an empire. The report says […]

The ‘Forgotten Fight’ For Prison Abolition In France

Above photo: Abandoned prison in Avignon, France. Jef Wodniack / Shutterstock.com. Long-time prison abolitionist Jacques Lesage de La Haye reflects on decades of anti-prison organizing in France and his personal journey from inmate to activist. When I saw that Jaccques Lesage de La Haye had a new book called The Abolition of Prison, published by the French […]

Kaepernick Editing, Publishing Essays Calling for the Abolition of Police and Prisons

The publishing company owned by Colin Kaepernick is editing and soon to publish a collection of essays calling for the abolition of police and prisons. “Today, I’m excited to share that we at @KaepernickPublishing will be releasing our first title, ABOLITION FOR THE PEOPLE: THE MOVEMENT FOR A FUTURE WITHOUT POLICING & PRISONS, on 10/12/21,” Kaepernick wrote […]

‘Justice Looks Like Abolition’

‘Justice Looks Like Abolition’ Above photo: Kerem Yucil/AFP via Getty Images. A Minneapolis Organizer on the Chauvin Verdict. While George Floyd’s killer was found guilty, Miski Noor of the Black Visions Collective says that true justice requires replacing policing with systems of care—and democratic control over public safety. On Tuesday, April 20, jurors in Minnesota found […]

In The Spirit Of Abolition, Let’s Shut’em Down!

A call to action. National “Shut’em Down” demonstrations August 21st and September 9th.  Originally published on the Jailhouse Lawyers Speak blog. Over the last year prisoners across the country have been holding the longest and largest spontaneous demonstrations in response to covid. With approximately 300,000 (the number is possibly as high as 800,000) people in prison having […]

Gottfried Feder’s Manifesto for the Abolition of Interest-Slavery

It should be abundantly clear that a sound economic system must rest not on debt or even some extraneous (i.e. useless) metal, but on the productivity of the worker alone. Money in itself is properly a medium of exchange and a store of value, not a commodity such as bread or steel. Therefore money should […]

Defund The Police Is Not Abolition

In practice, defunding police leads to endless dickering with local politicians and allows reformists to present themselves as abolitionists. “The only way police will leave Black neighborhoods is because Black people took community control of public safety and opposed police presence.” The demand to defund the police has become a central narrative responding  to the graphic killing of […]

Mariame Kaba Talks Abolition, Mutual Aid And Campus Police

Above photo: Mariame Kaba is an activist and prison-industrial complex abolitionist. On Wednesday she addressed an audience of over 1,000, supporting student organizers and the campaign against University Police. Northwestern Now. Activist and prison-industrial complex abolitionist Mariame Kaba celebrated the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by praising NU Community Not Cops and speaking […]

New York City’s Newest Neighborhood: Abolition Park

Above image: Illustration by Leia-lee Doran. At the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, City Hall Park lies in a cold-stone land where law and order rule. The area is defined by French Renaissance-style courthouses and municipal buildings. The NYPD’s headquarters is across the street and the Manhattan Detention Complex, colloquially referred to as “the Tombs” by […]

Far-Left Leader Openly Calls for ‘Abolition of the United States as We Know It’

At a rally marking the 50th day of protests in Portland, one of the event’s lead speakers openly called for the “abolition of the United States as we know it” during her extremist speech.  Black Lives Matter activist, Lilith Sinclair, who describes herself as an “afro-indigenous non-binary local organizer,” warned the crowd she is not just “organizing for the abolition […]

Prof Urges ‘Abolition of White Democracy’ During Lecture

A professor recently encouraged students to break the law in order to “destroy” the system of “white democracy,” saying the American flag doesn’t even represent about half of them. Video footage obtained by The Red Elephants purports to show Diablo Valley College professor Albert Ponce lecturing on “white supremacy in the USA,” at one point […]

Prof Urges ‘Abolition of White Democracy’ During Lecture

A professor recently encouraged students to break the law in order to “destroy” the system of “white democracy,” saying the American flag doesn’t even represent about half of them. Video footage obtained by The Red Elephants purports to show Diablo Valley College professor Albert Ponce lecturing on “white supremacy in the USA,” at one point […]

Police Unions, Police Officers, And Police Abolition

It is inherently forward-thinking: we are no closer to abolition than to the revolution. The question of how the Left should regard police unions is therefore a question of whether and how police unions fit into the goal of abolition. I argue that we must understand police officers as individuals, with different interests, experiences, and […]

The Unifying Force of War Abolition

The Unifying Force of War Abolition By DavidSwansonwashingtonsblog.com Remarks at United National Antiwar Coalition in Richmond, Virginia, on June 18, 2017. It’s not unusual for an activist, focused on one of the millions of worthy causes out there, to try to recruit other activists to that particular cause. That’s not exactly what I want to […]

Not even kidding: College will require "Abolition of Whiteness" course for political science majors

(Natural News) Many once-fine institutions for higher learning in America are slowly but very steadily being transformed from educational facilities to cultural revolution centers aimed at destroying traditional American principles, values and mores. How else can you possibly explain this outrage: Requiring political science majors to take and pass a course called “Abolition of Whiteness” […]

Nevada: First-Of-Its-Kind Rail Energy Storage Project

Nevada: First-Of-Its-Kind Rail Energy Storage Project April 29th, 2016 Via: Utility Dive: The newest entrant into the energy storage market bears a passing resemblance to cutting edge 19th century technology. It is a rail car with no passengers or freight that goes nowhere. But […]

Cop Arrested After Pulling Gun On Maintenance Worker – Charged With False Imprisonment

An Oakland police officer has been arrested and charged with false imprisonment and brandishing a firearm on a man hired to paint the door to his apartment in February, according to court records – (though the arrest happened in February, the city is only now releasing the information). Officer Matthew Santos graduated from the Oakland […]

Obama’s obsession with removing Assad makes him unsuitable as an ally in fighting terrorism

Obama goes full blown nutter in ABC News interview In an interview for ABC News, President Barack Obama suggested that sooner or later, Russia will wise up and join the US-led anti-ISIL camp in Syria. Moreover, again emphasizing the need to remove Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, the president noted that he would try […]

Hitler and the Banksters: The Abolition of Interest-Servitude

by Dr. Ingrid Rimland Zundel   This article was written for mature and thoughtful people who want to understand today in light of yesterday. It was not written for baboons who start to howl the moment they hear “Hitler” – the way the monkeys of my youth used to howl in front of my window […]

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