We urge designers, especially designers who seek to build a world without policing and cages, to adopt a praxis of Abolitionist Design. To do so, we have three recommendations. One, designers must refuse to design policing tools and should prohibit their work from ever being used for policing’s ends. Two, designers should resist and push back against the appropriation of design methods and discourse for policing’s ends. Three, designers must develop their knowledge and discernment of policing ideologies, and in turn, of abolitionist ones. Designers should fight to abolish literal cops and the ones in their heads. Freedom demands that, and nothing less.

Building transparency with a public, searchable database of law enforcement officers.

https://github.com/lucyparsons/openoversight

CopDB is a community-powered police database. It is inspired by the Wikipedia-model of collective data management, with a goal to document the most domestically violent part of the state.

Read more about the project at https://copdb.org

Det är ju vidrigt att grisarna ska tafsa och kladda.

Så polisögat och polisörat är på plats.

Kallocain-injektioner nästa steg?

Det är lätt att genomföra men väldigt svårt att rulla tillbaka.

We urge designers, especially designers who seek to build a world without policing and cages, to adopt a praxis of Abolitionist Design. To do so, we have three recommendations. One, designers must refuse to design policing tools and should prohibit their work from ever being used for policing’s ends. Two, designers should resist and push back against the appropriation of design methods and discourse for policing’s ends. Three, designers must develop their knowledge and discernment of policing ideologies, and in turn, of abolitionist ones. Designers should fight to abolish literal cops and the ones in their heads. Freedom demands that, and nothing less.

During the George Floyd rebellion of 2020, for the first time, it became possible to speak of police abolition as a viable proposal about how to break the cycle of violence that poverty and police militarization impose on our communities. Yet every effort to “defund the police” via institutional means reached a dead end. Under Joe Biden, the Democratic Party has doubled down on unconditional support for police. If there is any hope of limiting the continuous expansion of police infrastructure and state violence, grassroots movements and direct action will have to show the way.

In Search of New Forms of Life

ATLANTA, GA – Atlanta-area forest defenders, community activists and their allies from around the country and the world are initiating a “week of action” ag…

ATLANTA, GA – Atlanta-area forest defenders, community activists and their allies from around the country and the world are initiating a “week of action” ag…

The ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest are home to giant trees and many secrets, which science is just beginning to understand. But these forests are at risk of disappearing. In British Columbia on First Nation territory, a small band of forest defenders are risking life and liberty to protect some of the last remaining ancient forests.

Atlanta, GA – Atlanta-area forest defenders, community activists and their allies from around the country and the world are initiating a ‘week of action’ against a proposed ‘Cop City’ urban warfare campus and a movie industry facility that would demolish much of the largest urban forest in the country.

#ACAB Daily Digest (January 12, 2022)🧵:

Oh, the people you’ll meet…

Fucking gross and your regular reminder that private policing will continue to grow and abuse our communities on behalf of “the haves” until we shut them down too. #ACAB