"How do we create a world where checks don't need to be cut because harm never happens in the first place?"

Ant Smith on connecting reparations with abolition on Quakers Today
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#Quakers #Reparations #Abolition

#FreePalestine is offensive and causes discomfort just like cries for #Abolition, #BlackLivesMatter, #CivilRightsForAll, #EndApartheid, #LGBTQLivesMatter, #TransRightsAreHumanRights, #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles, and every other call for justice.
Oppressors are offended over being called out.

"The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited." — Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003) · #davis #abolition

At its centre was a question that would become impossible to avoid: could a government claim to protect slavery while people who had escaped slavery actively resisted being returned to it?

#ChristianaResistance #AmericanHistory #FugitiveSlaveAct #Abolition #UndergroundRailroad #BlackHistory

Long-time economic advisor Peter Bofinger has warned the SPD that they should abandon any effort to abolish the "pension at age 63" scheme. According to Bofinge... https://news.osna.fm/?p=63456 | #news #abolition #citing #costs #economic

"The Warehouse showcases the #abolition futures being crafted from the inside as people resist through direct action and artistic expression. This book is designed to inform, enrage, and ultimately inspire the same radical hope propelling incarcerated underminers of the carceral state."

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This resistance is an important part of US history, and has become invisible! Thanks to the amazing @eddsmitty.bsky.social, @akibasolomon.bsky.social and others working on abolition and the incredible @TheMarshallProjrct.org for documenting this,
and so powerfully! #Abolition #PINKS