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Mary Hooks, "What is the prison industrial complex?"

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Angela Davis, "Developing New Ways of Moving Toward Revolution"

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Maya Schenwar, "Jail Hasn't Worked for My Sister"

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Dylan Rodriguez, "Abolition Is Our Obligation"

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Don't Reform Prisons, Abolish Them - Ruth Wilson Gilmore

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Andrea J  Ritchie - Building Alternatives Is Everyone's Job

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Reforms should never include more resources or power for police.

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Reforms should never include more resources or power for police.

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Reforms *should* give more money and power to community and community-building. Reforms can also provide more transparency of police workings/violence to community.

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Reforms *should* give more money and power to community and community-building. Reforms can also provide more transparency of police workings/violence to community.

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"Violence is endemic to policing itself."  Reforms should always be laying the groundwork for abolition.

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"Violence is endemic to policing itself."  Reforms should always be laying the groundwork for abolition.

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Question: what other criteria could be used to rule out kinds of reforms?

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Question: what other criteria could be used to rule out kinds of reforms?

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What are the possible problems with Citizen Review Boards as a reform measure?

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What are the possible problems with Citizen Review Boards as a reform measure?

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"Prisons themselves are a reform. Prisons haven't always existed."

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"Prisons themselves are a reform. Prisons haven't always existed."

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What does it mean to focus on the mundane instead of the spectacular?

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A cyclical pattern: police violence results in uprisings, which those in power use as an excuse to crackdown.

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A cyclical pattern: police violence results in uprisings, which those in power use as an excuse to crackdown.

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"Instead of more militarized borders, why not ensure that all youth have access to meaningful , discipline-building co-curricular activities such as music, drama, art, and sports?" -pg 80

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"Instead of more militarized borders, why not ensure that all youth have access to meaningful , discipline-building co-curricular activities such as music, drama, art, and sports?" -pg 80

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Police make the vast majority of people feel secure, not safe. Security is a function of the weaponized state.

Non-reformist reforms. Ideas meant to tweak the system help to embed the system.

"The cops are in our heads and hearts."-Paula Rojas

Getting to know each other to keep each other safe.

We don't need to imagine abolition--it already exists in certain neighborhoods.

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Black and Brown people are already under surveillance everywhere they go- by police, gang members, store owners, etc. etc. with presumption of criminality. We should pay attention to the mundane surveillance already happening.

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Relating to what is "excessive" security breaching to what is "scary" to white folks

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This article is mentioned at the vbery beginning of this section, on page 76.

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The ACLU believes that children should be educated, not incarcerated.

We are working to challenge numerous policies and practices within public school systems and the juvenile justice system that contribute to the school to prison pipeline. For more information go to aclu.org/school-prison-pipeline.

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11 Students Whose Punishments We Wish Were Made Up

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We are working to challenge numerous policies and practices within public school systems and the juvenile justice system that contribute to the school to prison pipeline. For more information go to aclu.org/school-prison-pipeline.

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"What does facial recognition technology mean to young people who are regularly recognized and hassled by the beat cop in their neighborhood? They don’t need technology for that. They just need their eyes.” pg. 165 (ebook)

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How do we train ourselves to see the everyday violence if we're not living it? 

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How do we train ourselves to see the everyday violence if we're not living it? 

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Summary:

During Ferguson many people were comparing scenes of war from Gaza to what was happening in response in Ferguson but this is an unhelpful metaphor. For Black people the war on terror hasn't come home, it has always been there. Various narratives of fear through violence in general

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Resources from Chicago's Community Organizing and Family Issues
https://cofionline.org/COFI/learn-how/training-manuals/

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COFI has developed manuals for each phase of the Family Focused Organizing process of parent leadership development and organizing. These manuals are provided to attendees of COFI Center for Action and Learning trainings, and are also available for purchase.

Each manual includes curriculum and activities to build and support parent leadership development and organizing experience, incrementally over time. The manuals are based on long and successful experience with more than 3,000 parents and hundreds of organizers and staff.

The manuals are designed to be useful to organizations that want to build and support parent power and adapt COFI's work. The manuals include outlines for each training workshop, tips for organizers, trainers or facilitators, real-life stories of parent leaders' experiences, and practical, usable handouts and processes to work effectively with parents.

COFI Training and Organizing Manuals are soft cover, spiral bound, and approximately 100 pages each. There are English and Spanish versions of each. They are available for $50 per manual.

This manual walks people through Self, Family & Team, the first phase of COFI's model.

In this manual, you'll find support for implementing Community Outreach & Action.

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Community Organizing and Family Issues (COFI)

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COFI has developed manuals for each phase of the Family Focused Organizing process of parent leadership development and organizing. These manuals are provided to attendees of COFI Center for Action and Learning trainings, and are also available for purchase. Each manual includes curriculum and activities to build and support parent leadership development and organizing experience, incrementally over time.

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"Abolition for me is a long-term project and a practice around creating the conditions that would allow for the dismantling of prisons, policing, and surveillance, and the creation of new institutions that actually work to keep us safe and are not fundamentally oppressive." p.72

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"Abolition for me is a long-term project and a practice around creating the conditions that would allow for the dismantling of prisons, policing, and surveillance, and the creation of new institutions that actually work to keep us safe and are not fundamentally oppressive." p.72

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"In Florida, for example, schools have suspended low performing students in order to improve their overall test results." page 78

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"Mass criminalization is also mass surveillance--these things are not separate even if they are treated by some civil libertarians as such."

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Since there once was a world without prisons, how do you imagine the next world without prisons looking?

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Since there once was a world without prisons, how do you imagine the next world without prisons looking?

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How does surveillance culture show up in your own life? How have you been surveilled or surveilled someone else?

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How are immigration, borders, and policing/prisons connected?

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How are immigration, borders, and policing/prisons connected?

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Police make the vast majority of people feel secure, not safe. Security is a function of the weaponized state.

Non-reformist reforms. Ideas meant to tweak the system help to embed the system.

"The cops are in our heads and hearts."-Paula Rojas

Getting to know each other to keep each other safe.

We don't need to imagine abolition--it already exists in certain neighborhoods.

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"Every time someone is murdered by police: "Let the DOJ handle it!...It's not an effective strategy and it sucks up so much activist energy"

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Question 1: What is the intersection/conflict between abolitionism and 2nd amendment right to have guns? How to deal with fear of reaching out to neighbors due to fear of them having guns.

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Question 2: How many of us live without obvious police presence?

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New Mexico asks National Guard to work as substitute teachers to keep classrooms open

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New Mexico is short 1,000 teachers. National Guard volunteers now serve as substitute teachers.

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Question for the white group members: What were your personal interactions with school discipline systems, officers, etc growing up? More questions: What can (non-caregiver, non-school staff) community members do to engage with school and district change? How to decouple high-stakes testing from the punishments to underperforming schools (and trickle-down punishments to students)?

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Question for the white group members: What were your personal interactions with school discipline systems, officers, etc growing up? More questions: What can (non-caregiver, non-school staff) community members do to engage with school and district change? How to decouple high-stakes testing from the punishments to underperforming schools (and trickle-down punishments to students)?

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That's the politics that we should be focused on , a politics that attends to the grievances that people have in their day-to-day life. The everyday. The mundane, Not the spectacular or the excess.

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Quotes from the Book:

"Precariousness of empathy." - several pages

"Attention is drawn to the spectacular event rather than the point of origin or the mundane."-pg 84

"We're ignoring the mundane, the day-to-day terror, a terror that is often taken for granted. " -pg 87

"White people, in their corporeality, are the police. How does it feel to be the prototypical target?" -

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What are the ways that you individually or we as a collective focus more on the excess on than the mundane? And how do we disrupt and change that pattern?

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"What is the terror of the mundane and quotidian?" Who gets to define that and how does that affect Black people?

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How do we get rid of "the police within"? The existence of white people can act as a policing agent, how can we become more conscious of this and/or stop it?