We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Krystal Collins https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u Participants will be broken into 5 breakout groups who will summarize their assigned section, bring forth prominent quotes and pose at least 3 questions to the group that pertain to the specific reading section.Click on the plus sign below your assigned reading and add your summary/thoughts en-us 2022-02-07 18:43:27 UTC 2022-02-08 18:31:54 UTC hello@padlet.com krystalc2 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2033895490 2022-02-07 19:13:09 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2033895490 krystalc2 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2033899628 2022-02-07 19:14:21 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2033899628 krystalc2 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2033903334 2022-02-07 19:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2033903334 krystalc2 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2033924192 2022-02-07 19:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2033924192 krystalc2 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2033925685 2022-02-07 19:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2033925685 krystalc2 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2033938067 2022-02-07 19:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2033938067 Reforms should never include more resources or power for police. https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034391053 2022-02-08 01:18:37 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034391053 Reforms *should* give more money and power to community and community-building. Reforms can also provide more transparency of police workings/violence to community. https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034393387 2022-02-08 01:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034393387 "Violence is endemic to policing itself." Reforms should always be laying the groundwork for abolition. https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034395288 2022-02-08 01:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034395288 Question: what other criteria could be used to rule out kinds of reforms? https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034396510 2022-02-08 01:22:56 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034396510 What are the possible problems with Citizen Review Boards as a reform measure? https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034397335 2022-02-08 01:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034397335 Connections between high-stakes testing and STPP https://www.justice4all.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Test-Punish-Push-Out.pdf https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034397725 2022-02-08 01:23:55 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034397725 "Prisons themselves are a reform. Prisons haven't always existed." https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034398754 2022-02-08 01:24:39 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034398754 Question https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034399384 What does it mean to focus on the mundane instead of the spectacular?

]]> 2022-02-08 01:25:10 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034399384 A cyclical pattern: police violence results in uprisings, which those in power use as an excuse to crackdown. https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034400870 2022-02-08 01:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034400870 "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 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034402600 2022-02-08 01:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034402600 "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 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034403020 2022-02-08 01:28:13 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034403020 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034403877 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.]]> 2022-02-08 01:28:54 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034403877 Summary https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034404181 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.]]> 2022-02-08 01:29:09 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034404181 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034404790 2022-02-08 01:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034404790 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034404826 This article is mentioned at the vbery beginning of this section, on page 76.]]> 2022-02-08 01:29:42 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034404826 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034406799 "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)]]> 2022-02-08 01:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034406799 How do we train ourselves to see the everyday violence if we're not living it? https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034407099 2022-02-08 01:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034407099 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034407580 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 ]]> 2022-02-08 01:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034407580 COFI https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034407921 Resources from Chicago's Community Organizing and Family Issues 
https://cofionline.org/COFI/learn-how/training-manuals/]]> 2022-02-08 01:32:16 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034407921 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034408379 "In Florida, for example, schools have suspended low performing students in order to improve their overall test results." page 78]]> 2022-02-08 01:32:42 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034408379 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034409240 "Mass criminalization is also mass surveillance--these things are not separate even if they are treated by some civil libertarians as such."]]> 2022-02-08 01:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034409240 Since there once was a world without prisons, how do you imagine the next world without prisons looking? https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034409367 2022-02-08 01:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034409367 Question https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034409530 How does surveillance culture show up in your own life? How have you been surveilled or surveilled someone else?]]> 2022-02-08 01:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034409530 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034410734 2022-02-08 01:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034410734 How are immigration, borders, and policing/prisons connected? https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034410912 2022-02-08 01:34:51 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034410912 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034410977 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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]]> 2022-02-08 01:34:55 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034410977 Armed guards in New Mexico Schools https://www.npr.org/2022/02/02/1077056059/new-mexico-national-guard-substitute-teachers https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034411261 2022-02-08 01:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034411261 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)? https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034411642 2022-02-08 01:35:30 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034411642 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034414859 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.]]> 2022-02-08 01:37:59 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034414859 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034418568  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?" -


]]> 2022-02-08 01:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034418568 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034419010 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?

]]> 2022-02-08 01:41:25 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034419010 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034419281  "What is the terror of the mundane and quotidian?" Who gets to define that and how does that affect Black people?]]> 2022-02-08 01:41:39 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034419281 https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034419450  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?    ]]> 2022-02-08 01:41:47 UTC https://padlet.com/krystalc2/a9096la9wlp3jy1u/wish/2034419450