Abolition Means Reclaiming the Commons and Rejecting Securitization
Movement Memos
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Abolitionists and Community Based Violence
i would ask you to grapple with me a bit further, because brandon has a way of referring to these kinds of efforts, and to mutual aid more generally, that i find fascinating. He describes these projects as commoning against security. Abolition is closing the prisons and defunding the police. But it's also something bigger. It's creating different institutions to manage the problems that we now leave to the police in prisons. I think this begins with a certain social democratic common sense right,. A universal right to housing, health care, livelihood, unemployment. So a world of decentralized, communal life where we all work together to care for each other.
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