An audio teach-in with clips from activists, abolitionists, and more that traces the call to defund the police back to the history of policing, through the tangled web of systemic racism that touches health, housing, and everything in between. By deprioritizing police through the NYC Budget, as a city we assert that we can emerge on the other side, we can collectively imagine and begin to enact a world where police are no longer necessary. Edited by Brian Hochberger, Janette Lu, and Vanessa Thill. 

 

Featuring remarks by:

Rachel Himes, Central Brooklyn DSA, from 6/3/20 #DefundTheNYPD: NYC-DSA Chapter-Wide Meeting

Omari Soulfinger, Brooklyn Movement Center from 6/5/20 #DefundTheNYPD & #Repeal50A Teach-In

Anthonine Pierre, Brooklyn Movement Center, from 6/5/20 #DefundTheNYPD & #Repeal50A Teach-In

Leo Ferguson, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, from 6/5/20 #DefundTheNYPD & #Repeal50A Teach-In

Sochie Nnaemeka, Working Families Party, from 6/3/20 Communities United for Police Reform: NYC Budget Justice Press Conference

Zohran Mamdani, NY State Assembly candidate, from 6/3/20 #DefundTheNYPD: NYC-DSA Chapter-Wide Meeting

Lurie Daniel-Favors, Center for Law and Social Justice, from 6/3/20 Communities United for Police Reform: NYC Budget Justice Press Conference

Nnennaya Amuchie, Rachel Kuo, Eli, Micah Herskind and Reina Sultan, 8 To Abolition, Millennials Are Killing Capitalism interview, 6/15/20

Angela Davis, 6/14/20 Dream Defenders Sunday School: Unlock Us, Abolition in Our Lifetime

 

- Artist(s)/Organization Name(s) and pronouns:

Brian Hochberger (they/them)

Janette Lu (she/her) 

Vanessa Thill (she/her)

 

- Artist/Organization bio: 

Presented by Art Against Displacement, a coalition of artists and arts professionals based in Manhattan's Chinatown and Lower East Side. AAD seeks to amplify the demands of those whose lives and livelihoods are placed at risk by predatory development and resettlement, and to work in solidarity with grassroots organizations toward community-led rezoning. The group affirms that gentrification is not an inevitable effect of urban development, and refuses to let the work of cultural producers be instrumentalized towards the displacement of long-term residents and businesses. www.aad.nyc

Defund NYPD Audio Teach-in

altin mikrofon began as the web incarnation of vanessa's wbar radio show of international psych and garage
fem mcs, fire mixtapes, misanthropic club hits
soft spot for middle eastern sounds

Defund NYPD Audio Teach-in

altın mikrofon