Abolition and the State: Responses Vol. 1
Abolitionist Futures in Conversation
This is the first in a series of ‘zines engaging questions raised in Interrupting Criminalization’s Abolition and the State: A Discussion Tool. Our hope in creating the discussion guide was that it would spark and fuel engagement, debate, and sharpened analysis among abolitionist organizers around the role of the state(s) in bringing about and sustaining abolitionist futures.
This ‘zine gathers reflections from two cross-border conversations held in the fall of 2022: a conversation between Interrupting Criminalization co-founder and No More Police: A Case for Abolition co-author Andrea J. Ritchie and Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, co-authors of Rehearsals for Living, and a conversation hosted by Dean Spade and the Barnard Center for Research on Women with Harsha Walia, author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism and the Rise of Racist Nationalism and William C. Anderson, author of The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition.
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