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keeping quiet, keeping civil, keeping peace will not get us to liberation

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keeping quiet, keeping civil, keeping peace will not get us to liberation

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constant work, in all sorts of media and directions, and creative ideas -- together -- will help us get there

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constant work, in all sorts of media and directions, and creative ideas -- together -- will help us get there

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Abolition and progress will be made in community, with creativity, over time, and as a unit.
"People want to treat 'we'll figure it out by working to get there' as some sort of rhetorical evasion instead of being a fundamental expression of trust in the power of conscious collective effort." pg. 166-167

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Organizing all the time, to be ready for the moment

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Units of interest/impact--relationships and harm

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You have a responsibility to live in this world. Your responsibility is not just to yourself. You are connected to everyone.

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And not pointing to one collective or org as the "model." What works in one context may not work elsewhere but we can learn from all the work

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Revolution is a slow small batch, experimental, process

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Revolution is a slow small batch, experimental, process

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community, community, community. that's the part that matters. do the work, be accountable to each other. don't stop. 

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community, community, community. that's the part that matters. do the work, be accountable to each other. don't stop. 

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"I want to figure out how to transform harm in every possible context because I have been harmed and I have harmed other people."

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"I want to figure out how to transform harm in every possible context because I have been harmed and I have harmed other people."

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Listening to dad talk about bout revolution and what people really mean by revolution. And what people don’t understand about what revolutions really do.

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How it seems failure is celebrated everywhere except when associated with organizing, at least from outside eyes

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I read this interesting article vs. I believe in this.

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Centering relationships and impact of harm

"I would be very depressed if it only was up to me to solve every problem in the world, but it's not." pg. 186

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policing is a one-size fits all model - there will be a million alternatives

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policing is a one-size fits all model - there will be a million alternatives

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knowledge is built through struggle: together.

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knowledge is built through struggle: together.

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"Accumulation does not enumerate harm"

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police are violence, full stop. deaths are only one type of violence, but don't come close to expressing the spectrum, since the violence that is lived through is often ignored. the mundane. 

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police are violence, full stop. deaths are only one type of violence, but don't come close to expressing the spectrum, since the violence that is lived through is often ignored. the mundane. 

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"“What happens when you define policing as actually an entire system of harassment, violence, and surveillance that keeps oppressive gender and racial hierarchies in place?”

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shifting our lens to systemic instead of individual

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"When you start talking about policing is a system that's actually about harrassment, violence, and surveillance, then you're not going to accept bullshit reform." --p. 189

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"Reformers are management for the elite." P. 310

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enter with curiosity and humility

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“I think about sites of struggle as just constant learning”

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you can be in this work and *not* be an abolitionist - but a PIC abolitionist wants elimination of surveillance, prisons, policing

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you can be in this work and *not* be an abolitionist - but a PIC abolitionist wants elimination of surveillance, prisons, policing

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 “I don’t believe in allyship, and I’m super bored with the concept of performativity. I believe in strugglers and I believe in coworkers and I believe in solidarity” 🧡

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 “I don’t believe in allyship, and I’m super bored with the concept of performativity. I believe in strugglers and I believe in coworkers and I believe in solidarity” 🧡

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"Abolition is the practice of transformation in the here and now and the ever after" pg 196

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Elimination of: policing, surveillance and imprisonment.

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we need to know that Black youth are HERE

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we need to know that Black youth are HERE

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Hope is a discipline. - p197

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PIC abolition "calls for the elimination of policing, imprisonment, and surveillance." It's okay to not have everything "right" when you are first learning as long as you're coming from a place of genuine interest. Not everyone is an abolitionist, and that's okay. Instead of co-optation we can distinguish between reformers and abolitionists.

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PIC abolition "calls for the elimination of policing, imprisonment, and surveillance." It's okay to not have everything "right" when you are first learning as long as you're coming from a place of genuine interest. Not everyone is an abolitionist, and that's okay. Instead of co-optation we can distinguish between reformers and abolitionists.