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Abolishing the Police

Reading list: https://abolitionistfutures.com/everyday-abolition-2022

Barnard Center for Research on Women / (2020) Everyday Practices of Transformative Justice [video]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-UE8wwXEtc

Session 6 2022: Everyday Abolition

Martial Politics, Police Power: Abolition, War and the Arms Trade - Chris Rossdale

The strategic-political logic of counter-subversion - Connor Woodman

Introduction - Koshka Duff

Why Borders And Prisons, Border Guards And Police - Phe Amis And Tom Kemp

Practising Everyday Abolition - Sarah Lamble

We are all police now: Resisting Everyday Bordering and the Hostile Environment - Arianne Shahvisi

Original article: https://batjc.wordpress.com/resources/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/

Session 6 of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list. For the full readings see here: https://abolitionistfutures.com/everyday-abolition-2022

Pods and Pod-Mapping Worksheet - Mia Mingus

From 'Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)', by Dean Spade. Published by Verso Books, in October 2020. 

Reading part of Session 6 (Everyday Abolition)of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list 2020. For the full readings see here: abolitionistfutures.com/whats-wrong-with-reform

Mutual aid - Building solidarity during this crisis (and the next)

Three key elements of mutual aid - Dean Spade

Reading of Ann Russo(2019) - Chapter 6: Everyday Responses to Everyday Violence from Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power. New York: New York University Press, p. 132-142.

Reading part of Session 6 (Everyday Abolition)of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list 2020. For the full readings see here: abolitionistfutures.com/whats-wrong-with-reform

Ann Russo(2019) - Chapter 6: Everyday Responses to Everyday Violence

Your Gut Instinct Summit Interview

EMMA Talks Podcast lives on our website at emmatalks.org
Recorded at the VPL inspiration lab, November, 2016.

Sarah Hunt - Decolonizing the Roots of Rape Culture

Together We Rise

DESCRIPTION:
In June 2018, generative somatics (gs) created a podcast with Spenta Kandawalla, Prentis Hemphill and Staci K. Haines, hosted by adrienne maree brown. We had a conversation about trauma, oppression, healing and organizing for structural change. We dug into the connections between personal, collective and structural transformation, and between healing and building collective power. We also explored the term Healing Justice. What does embodied healing have to do with creating liberation? 

HOST:
adrienne maree brown is author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, pleasure activist, healer and doula living in Detroit. She is on the teaching bodies of generative somatics and Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity.

GUESTS:
Prentis Hemphill  is healer, Somatics practitioner, teacher, writer and organizer who works at the intersections of healing and justice. As the former Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter, Prentis committed to supporting and nurturing the brilliant strategies of organizers and healers to address trauma, move through conflict and center wholeness in the BLM network and in the broader movement for Black freedom and liberation. Prentis continues their ongoing work as a teacher of somatics and personal transformation with Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD), a training program for Black organizers throughout the US, and with generative somatics, which is focused on bringing a politicized Somatics practice to movement building organizations. Prentis has worked for years with communities developing transformative responses to violence and envisioning new ways of being together, including work with generationFIVE and Communities United Against Violence. Prentis is committed to transformation on the cellular level and the belief that who we are and how we are in our most intimate spaces is vital for our collective liberation.

Spenta Kandawalla is a co-founder of generative somatics (gs).  She is an auntie, acupuncturist and herbalist, generative somatics teacher, and member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC). Over the past 13 years, Spenta has been studying, teaching, and growing generative somatics work for organizers, movement builders and healers across the country. She is committed to helping move and expand work at the intersection of healing and organizing toward more freedom and possibility for all of us.

Staci K. Haines is a co-founder and the Executive Director of generative somatics. She integrates trauma and healing and a systemic analysis of power, into this unique and powerful work. Staci is committed to the interdependence of personal, collective and systemic transformation: “We are shaped by our deeply personal experiences and our social conditions. Through embodied transformation and collective action we can move ourselves, communities and society toward what is life­ affirming. The focus of gs is to bring the transformative power of somatics to serve social and environmental justice movements.” Staci is also a founder of generationFIVE, which has the mission to end the sexual abuse of children within 5 generations. She is the author of Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma (Cleis 1999, 2007).  

THANK YOU
Producer: Janvieve Williams Comrie
Music: Oakland-based collective Mass Bass.

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Trauma, Healing & Collective Power

What is critical media literacy? Wanna hear about some resources to support building that skill *and a critique of those sources too? Come thru for a decolonial feminist critique of @DemocracyNow and other independent media sources that I listen to w/ a grain of salt. Hope you enjoy this 2nd installation of our “Weeds & Seeds” autumn series. Hope to see ya Wednesday for some weeding! PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.”

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