Bea speaks with Andrea Ritchie about the movement to defund and abolish policing, how police budgets sap resources from state and local governments, and how to understand abolition as a core principle that advances the goals of so many other movements.

Find Andrea's book, co-authored with Mariame Kaba, "No More Police: A Case for Abolition" here: https://thenewpress.com/books/no-more-police

Find more information on Interrupting Criminalization and the "Beyond Do No Harm" project here: https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/beyond-do-no-harm

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Death Panel 437 No More Police w/ Andrea Ritchie (06/01/23)

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No More Police w/ Andrea Ritchie (06/01/23)

Beatrice speaks with Andrea Ritchie about working to build abolitionist futures in the face of rising fascism and unrelenting state violence, resisting the ongoing annihilatory campaign on Gaza, and her new book Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies. Transcript forthcoming.

Find Andrea's new book here: https://www.akpress.org/practicing-new-worlds.html

And two links Andrea mentions early in the episode:

"Stop Gaza Genocide," a public toolkit: https://bit.ly/StopGazaGenocide

Another toolkit to find protests and more:
https://gazaispalestine.org/

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Pre-order Jules' new book here:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/

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Death Panel 475 Practicing New Worlds w/ Andrea Ritchie (11/16/23)

Practicing New Worlds w/ Andrea Ritchie (11/16/23)

Politics, culture, and public policy from the left. Stay alive another week.

w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Phil Rocco and Jules Gill-Peterson. 

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