#beyondpolicing

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If You're New to Abolition: Study Group Guide

A six week study guide for newcomers to abolition with a wealth of resources for further collective study.

Are you new to #abolition?

We made a study guide for you! 

This guide is here for you to self-organize weekly meetings for discussion with your friends, co-workers, neighbors, comrades.

Please share widely!

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from Abolition 101 lecture by Orisanmi Burton

[ID - White text set against a background of moss-covered tree roots. “No one has yet made a successful revolution without a revolutionary theory” Amílcar Cabral]

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From  Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Abolition, Part 1, from Intercepted Podcast

[ID: Quote on a blue square set against a gold textured background. Image reads: “What are the conditions under which it is more likely that people will resort to using violence and harm to solve problems? What can we so about it so there is less harm?” Ruth Wilson Gilmore]

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The everyday vulnerability of modestly educated people in the prime of their life [cannot] be addressed in a meaningful way as long as the forces of organized violence and prison expansion [take] the place of solving the problems that people actually [experience].

Ruth Wilson Gilmore from Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Abolition, Part 2,  from Intercepted Podcast

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From  Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Abolition, Part 2, from Intercepted Podcast

[ID - Text set against a background of knotted ropes. "The threat of violence [...] only produces more of itself. This is the knot we're trying to untangle." Ruth Wilson Gilmore]