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James Baldwin and Abolition
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James Baldwin and Abolition
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In this episode, we speak with Mary C. Turner, a registered nurse and a member of the Council of Presidents of National Nurses United,
the largest nurse’s union in the US,
which is forcefully calling for the abolition of ICE.
https://therealnews.com/nurses-union-a

Largest nurses union calls to abolish ICE after Alex Pretti killing: ‘They messed with the wrong profession’
“What Alex did that day was pure instinct, pure professional behavior,” NNU President Mary C. Turner tells us. “That’s just what you do when you're a nurse.“

Trump Administration Scraps Plan to Mint Quarters Featuring Abolition, Suffrage (Richard Rubin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-administration-scraps-plan-to-mint-quarters-featuring-abolition-suffrage-073583d4
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p39#a251211p39

#abolition #revolution

I also think that Standing Rock has already brought this up for some of the folks I'd otherwise be talking to. I'm definitely not early to the party here.
I'm just coming back to this from recently finishing "Safety Through Solidarity" (a book everyone should read) and thinking about my own identity.
One of the things that came up in the book was the potential intersection between Haredim and anarchists on prison reform and abolition. Yet, we tend to neglect this opportunity for collaboration, I think for such reasons as I'm talking about.
Edit:
https://www.akpress.org/safety-through-solidarity.html

Milwaukee & Madison DSA have endorsed Hong for Governor of Wisconsin.
“Working people have seen that the system doesn’t work for them. Time and again, the establishment has failed us so as not to upset their billionaire donors. As ICE threatens to terrorize our communities and kidnap our neighbors, Francesca Hong stands committed to fight back as the only candidate calling for their abolition.”

THIS weekend.. Antonio Guterres, will be visiting Britain. ..marking the 80th anniversary of the first meeting of the UN general assembly in London in January 1946.
At that first UN general assembly meeting there was only one substantive resolution. It called for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Support came from both... the United States and Vyacheslav Molotov for the Soviet Union.
Guterres visit highlights need for intensified

'Deplorable': Outrage as Trump admin scraps quarter honoring abolition, women's suffrage - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-coin-2674393416/

Recent polling shows the majority disapprove of how ICE operates.
But to truly stop the damage requires going further
– it means eradicating the security logic that ever made people think that arming a secret police on an ethnic cleansing mission could ever make them safe.
Formed in 2003, during the embarrassing and disastrous national excesses of the post-9/11 era
– when the nation launched two ill-fated forever wars, and demonized Muslim immigrants
– ICE’s ma…

The latest issue of the journal I edit - the Canadian Historical Review - dropped last week. It includes articles on the influence of Indigenous practices on European medicine (it'll help you understand the origins of the term "blowing smoke up your ass" too), First Nations' dispossession and the funding of settlement, early campaigns for the abolition of the death penalty, Trudeau's return to power in 1980, and the UN's World Refugee Year.
Check it out.

I fully agree, no borders—prison abolition, and honestly this tracks because Snufkin spends the series tearing down private property signs.
#Anarchism #Anarchy #Moomins

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115872130198816490
Wait, I didn’t mean to say it like that. Reading it again, it sounds like I’m against abolishing prisons, but hell no—I’m all for abolition!

Thoreau and Abolition: ALA 2026 Chicago
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