Abolitionist Futures Digest March 2025
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Events
Leeds Abolitionist Futures (in person) Reading Group
April‐July 2025
School of Solidarity: What can we do to keep each other safe?
Organised by The People’s Tribunal on Police Killings, Lambeth Mutual Aid and Lambeth Copwatch as part of the School of Solidarity series — with open discussion, workshops on how to intervene in police harassment, and a film viewing.
Sunday 30 March, 3pm‐6pm, The Advocacy Academy, Brixton
Register here - food provided & wheelchair accessible
Policing, Colonialism and Land Justice Part 1
Organised by Community Action for Land Liberation as part of the Land Justice Popular Education Circle series
Sundar 30 March, 1.30pm‐4pm
Hillbilly Social, 101 Myddleton Road, N22 8NE
Articles & Reports
Complexifying Carceral Feminism: Interrogating an Emotional Entanglement by molly ackhurst
The neoliberal slide into a carceral gender-based violence sector by Leah Cowan
Building prison solidarity by Francesca Nadin and John Bowden
Recordings
Recording of the launch event for ‘Addressing Gender-Based Violence: Carceral Reforms vs Abolitionist Strategies’
Maslaha and Surviving society 'Maslaha, UK prisons and Social Justice'
Radicals In Conversation: 'Trans femme futures and abolitionist ethics for trans feminist worlds'
Solidarity Support
Copwatch fundraiser for the Allianz3
Support the Allianz 3 pro-Palestine direct actionists with legal costs! Copwatch Network is fundraising to support 3 direct actionists who, on Monday 10th March 2025, occupied and shut down the London HQ of Allianz Insurance for 10 hours as part of a campaign of sustained direct action against UK complicity in genocide.
Nejma Ramadan 2025 Fundraiser
Nejma Collective is running an annual fundraiser that provides direct financial support to our siblings in prison, supporting those imprisoned of all faiths.