#abolition 101

[anarchistmemedistro]

[rosarenn]

We were attempting to capture the globality of the organization of punishment, even as we were very specifically attempting to create a way to understand why it was that such huge numbers of people were in prison in the US, the racial disparities of the prison population, and at the same time, the decline of education, of healthcare, etc.

Angela Davis, “The Shifting Concept of the PIC” a video by Critical Resistance, for the series “Breaking down the PIC”

[rosarenn]

from Abolition 101 lecture by Orisanmi Burton 

[ID - “Abolition requires that we change one thing, which is everything. When one says prison abolition, one cannot be talking about only prison... It’s building the future from the present in all the ways we can.” Ruth Wilson Gilmore]