Session 5: Abolitionist Mutual Aid and Responses to COVID-19
2018-2021 Core Readings:
Adam
Elliott Cooper & The Monitoring Group (2020) ‘Covid-19 Lockdown - Policing the Police’ [Video 10min]
Gal-Dem (2020) ‘The state will not save us, only we can save us’: a collective response to Covid-19. Gal-Dem.com [4 pages]
INQUEST / Women in Prison (2020) Covid-19 Letter Inquest.org.uk [2 pages]
Micah Herskind (2020) ‘Three Reasons Advocates Must Move Beyond Demanding Release for “Nonviolent Offenders”’ Medium.com [9 pages]
Further Reading:
If you’re joining an Abolitionist Futures reading group for the second time, we recommend you read these instead of the core readings.
‘Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Covid-19, Decarceration, and Abolition: How should abolitionists respond to the coronavirus pandemic?’ Ruth Wilson Gilmore, in conversation with Naomi Murakawa for Haymarket Books (2020) [Video 1hr 37 minutes]
‘The Lockdown: Arresting the Virus’ [Podcast 1 hour 18 minutes] Oonagh Ryder and Carl Cattermole with Kevin Blowe and Becka Hudson (2020)
Afary, Frieda and Lara Al-Kateb (2020) What is holding back the formation of a global prison abolitionist movement to fight COVID-19 and capitalism? SpectreJournal.com