Post by Admin on May 28, 2023 1:22:32 GMT
This Fight Is Global: Abolitionists From the US and France Join in Conversation
Prison abolitionists are talking across national lines about the connections and differences between their struggles.
truthout.org/articles/this-fight-is-global-abolitionists-from-the-us-and-france-join-in-conversation/
In the summer of 2020, at the onset of a deadly pandemic, George Floyd’s murder propelled unprecedented numbers of people across the globe to take to the streets. From Australia to India, from Johannesburg to Saskatoon, demands reverberated to defund police and invest in safer communities.
While people flooded the streets in anger and grief, these crowds also represented the success of decades of political education, supported by grassroots Black and Indigenous-led abolitionist campaigns and networks. The crowds also telegraphed a clear message: Communities are stronger and safer without police and prisons.
Despite the predictable backlash — an indication of the profound impact of these massive street protests — demands to defund police have persist. #StopCopCity, the movement to defeat the largest proposed police and military training facility in Atlanta, continues. In Winnipeg, Vancouver and Montreal, Canada, students continue to organize to remove police from public schools. Chicago’s Treatment Not Trauma campaign resoundingly won a referendum (non-binding) to invest in police-free mental health and trauma services.
Prison abolitionists are talking across national lines about the connections and differences between their struggles.
truthout.org/articles/this-fight-is-global-abolitionists-from-the-us-and-france-join-in-conversation/
In the summer of 2020, at the onset of a deadly pandemic, George Floyd’s murder propelled unprecedented numbers of people across the globe to take to the streets. From Australia to India, from Johannesburg to Saskatoon, demands reverberated to defund police and invest in safer communities.
While people flooded the streets in anger and grief, these crowds also represented the success of decades of political education, supported by grassroots Black and Indigenous-led abolitionist campaigns and networks. The crowds also telegraphed a clear message: Communities are stronger and safer without police and prisons.
Despite the predictable backlash — an indication of the profound impact of these massive street protests — demands to defund police have persist. #StopCopCity, the movement to defeat the largest proposed police and military training facility in Atlanta, continues. In Winnipeg, Vancouver and Montreal, Canada, students continue to organize to remove police from public schools. Chicago’s Treatment Not Trauma campaign resoundingly won a referendum (non-binding) to invest in police-free mental health and trauma services.