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Police Abolition 101: What a world without cops would look like -
Madison Pauly: Why defund the police, rather than reform them?
Alex Vitale: Five years ago, in the wake of the murders of Mike Brown and Eric Garner and Tamir Rice, we were told, “Don’t worry, we’re going to fix it. We’re going to give the police implicit bias training. We’re going to hold some community police encounter sessions. We’re gonna buy some body cameras.” A whole set of what we often refer to as “procedural reforms” designed to make the police more professional, less biased, more transparent—and that this is going to magically fix the problem. But things did not get better. People are still being killed, and more importantly, the problem of overpolicing remains.
Why didn’t it work?
Procedural justice folks, they want to restore the public’s trust in the police so that the police can go back to policing. But this ignores the question of what they are policing, and whether they should be policing it. We have [millions of] low-level arrests in the United States every year and most of them are completely pointless. It is just a huge level of harassment meted out almost exclusively on the poorest and most marginal communities in our society. There is a deep resentment about policing in those places. And then, when there’s a high-profile incident, it unleashes all this pent-up anger and rage.
Reducing policing goes hand in hand with widespread decriminalization, then—of things like having an open container in your front yard or selling untaxed cigarettes.
Absolutely. It goes hand in hand with decriminalizing sex work, drugs, homelessness, mental illness. We don’t really need a vice unit, we need a system of legalized sex work that’s regulated just like any other business. We don’t need school police, we need counselors and restorative justice programs. We don’t need police homeless outreach units, we need supportive housing, community based drop-in centers, social workers.
(Source: Mother Jones)
So, the main reason why this blog exists at all is to compile posts I find which are educational, instructional, related to relevant subcultures, or otherwise worth coming back to. I’ve trawled my way through the darkest depths of Tumblr so that you don’t have to. The tagging system works like this:
#useful: General category for anything educational or instructional.
#gardening: How to grow stuff
#organizing: How to get all your neighbors and co-workers together and throw a big ol’ party
#agitprop: How to win friends and influence people [Includes art and graphic design guides]
#diy: How to make stuff and fix stuff
#comms: The wireless. How to stay in touch and stay safe while you’re doing it.
#afa: How to keep your neighborhood safe from ruffians and ne’er-do-wells and troublemakers
#theory: Get learned about commulism and anarchristmas and the dialectics
#our history: Get learned about all sorts of commie SJWs and their struggles down through the ages
#education: Get learned more generally
#bushcraft: Survive and thrive inna woods
#food: For when you’re hangry
#medical: For when you’re under the weather
Also There Is:
#solarpunk: Stuff for inventing the future
#country: Anything having to do with rural life, regional Gothic, and all of hillbillydom
#formerposting: The profligacy of youth and my adventures on the wrong side of the barricades [hopefully this is helpful]
#dystopia: End-of-the-world chic and the beauty of decay. [This has also become my general not-solarpunk futurism tag so there’s programmer jokes and #aesthetic computer shit in there too]
#the old country: Me being a shitty white American potato weeb disconnected from her roots
#hooah: Military history and dumb Army shit
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John Saxon in Cannibal Apocalypse (1980) dir. Antonio Margheriti
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THE INHUMAN CONDITION (1985) By Clive Barker / Cover Art by Jim Warren
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