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    Nov 26

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    And formerly incarcerated is no substitute for currently incarcerated. Especially when the token formerly incarcerated person is almost always a cis-het, neuro-typical male.
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    Jun 16

    ...In tandem with these two processes integral to promulgating a mass abolitionist movement, Critical Resistance emphasized their conference model of organizing."

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    Jun 16

    ...Truly multi-sited activism, CR chapters began hosting radio programs, making CDs and video productions, held film festivals, spoke in classrooms, on TV news, in churches and “virtually anywhere people are interested in learning” about the PIC...

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    Jun 16

    "On the other hand, CR understood early the imperatives of abolitionist “consciousness raising” through public education projects, injecting an abolitionist analysis of the PIC into the public discourse at multiple institutional sites and on numerous social scales....

    ...Beyond an organization, Critical Resistance was thus also consolidating as a “concept”—adaptable, applicable to a far-range of possible struggles in different geographical contexts."
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    Jun 16

    ...Beyond an organization, Critical Resistance was thus also consolidating as a “concept”—adaptable, applicable to a far-range of possible struggles in different geographical contexts."

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    Jun 16

    ...Some members describe this supporting function as a type of infrastructure for bolstering community organizing at the local level, a framework that might guide and inform but never override the activism already going on in these different geographies....

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    Jun 16

    ...These campaigns intend to strengthen the work of community groups and activists who were already at work on the issues of state violence specific to their home regions...

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    Jun 16

    "On one hand, the organization mobilized through grassroots organizing campaigns carried out by local chapters scattered mostly in the United States, with international analogs...

    ...And by the year 2003, the approach to movement-building that was experimenting with can be described as manufacturing an abolitionist culture of resistance along three general lines of tactical significance."
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    Jun 16

    ...And by the year 2003, the approach to movement-building that was experimenting with can be described as manufacturing an abolitionist culture of resistance along three general lines of tactical significance."

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    Jun 16

    "To paraphrase George Jackson, 'Where the conditions for revolution do not exist, they must be manufactured'...

    Conferences as a Vehicle for Abolitionist Organizing ~ shout outs to and in there.
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    Jul 19

    So we have a blog.... and there is a ton of content on there that’s useful for abolitionist organizers, scholars culture workers, and students. Share us with your friends and loved ones. We’re seeding abolition in the belly of the beast 🖤

    I wanted to share some of the process, the way, I engage other prisoners about abolition, safety and transformative justice. I would love feedback.
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    Jul 22

    PIC Abolition (defined)

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    Jul 23

    Solidarity with Black, Third World, and Indigenous people in revolt all over the world

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    Oct 3

    There is no objective “crime” there are only contested definitions and relations of power.

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    Oct 3

    The media apparatus has deeply entrenched racial-crime correlations within the U.S. populace

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    Oct 3

    “Acts are not, they become” --> “Crime does not exist, crime is created” (Niles Christy) “First there are acts. Then follows a long process of giving meaning to them.”

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    Oct 3

    [Crime is a theater]

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    Oct 3

    The Prison Industrial Complex is a cultural production

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    Oct 21

    related | clear growing pattern of collective hunger strikes challenging jails, prisons, and detention

    Over the last few years, there has been an ongoing surge in collective hunger strikes that form a clear pattern at a national level.
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    Oct 21

    start paying attention and imagining what matching the levels of risk people are taking inside might look like ~c

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    Oct 21

    and the asymmetries in risk taken up in US prison movements is sometimes quite appalling

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