what is our abolitionist bookclub? we are new and are trying to build a community of people that come together to share, celebrate and learn through reading abolitionist texts. we will be reading one book per month with biweekly meetings. we hope to create a space that allows for joy within the bleak reality that we reside, in deconstructing the creation of modernity. by reading, we can find understanding of the world, but to keep that understanding alive we have to share it with eachother. we want to use learning as a form of organizing while also sharing our individual organizing efforts to create a stronger community network. we believe in a free palestine, an end to all prisons and police and liberation for all oppressed people.
abolitionism defined: systems that produce racial inequality operate using prisons and police, and those systems exist to allow capitalism to persist.
Historically,the needs of those who benefit from the current economic system, have shaped and developed punishment in society
joyful militancy (blurb to come)
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin at haymarket books website
supporting texts for "in defense of looting"
gentrification, police, and crime: comparative reading
possible future readings
sources for books
every other sunday, 1-3pm.
