Defund | Abolish | Reconstruct
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Police have killed at least 1068 people in the U.S. since they murdered George Floyd in Minneapolis last summer. They are a force of state terror in our communities, paid for by public dollars. They should be abolished and new resources and services put in their place.
Scholar-activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore says abolition is about eliminating the conditions that led to prisons being offered as a solution to problems. It is about creating a new world.
Her forthcoming book is “Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition.” We must build the movement for Abolition to stop mass incarceration and recreate our society. Abolition is revolutionary.
Join us July 17 as we host Ruth Wilson Gilmore for a discussion of the way forward to abolition and to achieving the revolutionary goal of reconstructing society on the basis of equality, freedom, and justice for all.
Download – LRNA July 17 Abolish Flier
The news that slavery was abolished finally reached Texas on June 19, 1865, over two years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Today we celebrate June 19, Juneteenth, as the end of U.S. slavery. Hundreds of thousands of people, Black and white, sacrificed their lives to end chattel slavery and open up the possibility of a society of freedom and equality. Yet legal emancipation and true freedom are not the same. The enslaved were set “free” with no compensation for over 200 years of back-breaking labor and no means to survive economically or be independent of their former “owners,” few legal or political rights, and precarious physical safety.
Still today, the masses of the U.S. people are not free. Every year, police kill about 1,000 people nationwide and brutalize and harass thousands more. Black, Indigenous, and Latinx Americans suffer at the highest rate, but workers of all colors are targeted by our increasingly fascist corporate State. Most people murdered, terrorized, and incarcerated by the police are poor.
Real freedom means the abolition of State violence, including police terror and the poverty imposed on so many people by a corporate ruling class. Instead of meeting people’s needs for housing, food, clothing, healthcare, and education, the ruling class hoards the abundance of society through its control of the economy and every level of government. Abandonment by the government of our people is the result. The scarcity lie is laid bare by the $1.3 trillion increase in the combined wealth of the nation’s 657 billionaires since the pandemic lockdowns began. Clearly, there is abundant societal wealth to provide true freedom for all. Read the full article at https://rallycomrades.org/…/juneteenth-2021…/q
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