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How are we safer for this?

This man was in prison 70 years, then 6 years in a secure nursing home, for a 1949 murder. That someone later confessed to and a police major believed he was wrongly convicted.

But there he sat.

#prison #abolition #deathpenalty

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/us/francis-clifford-smith-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.71A.YCQX.4PtHWGZhzIyQ&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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《International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition》

#SlaveTrade #Abolition #Rememberance #UNESCO

https://www.unesco.org/en/days/slave-trade-remembrance

@BrianJopek @tanavit

The far right is everywhere. They transcend boundaries. It's class war. Something the French know quite a bit about. Guillotine's still make the parasite class shudder in fear. It's not about France. It's not about the USA. The far right is about global enslavement. We need to fight it everywhere, all the time.

Police hold the billionaire class in power. #Abolition

👉️ 5th AI ABOLITION NETWORK & STRATEGY MEETING
📅 Saturday Aug. 29 at 14:00 - 19:00
📍Svarta Koppen @svarta_koppen
🎟️ rsvp (see info link below)

"Many of us object to the fascist logic of the machine, but we are fragmented and isolated. It's time to come together.

We invite everyone interested, or already working towards, AI abolition to our 5th monthly networking + strategy meeting.

For the first, but not last time, we come to Malmö, to connect with those fighting the machine this side of the Öresund bridge. Newcomers welcome!

Our aims for the meeting:
- get to know each other & strengthen our ties across Øresund;
- coordinate AI resistance in the region (incl. by expanding our support of local data center protests);
- work towards strategic consensus by answering the questions: What we mean by AI? By its abolition? Can it be achieved under capitalism?

Our aims beyond the meeting: conscientiously objecting, rejecting, resisting, and finally smashing AI.

There will be drinks, snacks, stickers, and humans."

more info: https://dukop.dk/en/event/ai-abolition-network-strategy-meeting-nr-5-malmo/10362/

#AI #Resistance #Abolition
#Activism #Climate #ClimateChange
#Science #ArtifiicialIntelligence
#Revolution #dkpol #svpol

«54th European Group Conference»
Alternatives to Punitive Security Culture: Organizing for Social Liberation.

🗓️ 1–4 September 2026
🏙️ Vitoria-Gasteiz

(🧵💬 SPA ↑ / EUS ↓)

#Antipunitivism #EuropeanGroup #Antiracism #Anticolonialism #Abolition #PrisonAbolition #BasqueCountry

〝Gallagher ticked through the pieces of Mamdani's agenda, like affordable housing, educational access, and food. "These are things that decrease criminality," she said. "I think he is actually doing criminal justice reform right now outside the usual framework."

I suggested that this sounded like supply-side police reform—trying to fix the criminal justice system not by making it more just, but by trying to keep people from doing anything that might bring them into contact with police.

"Exactly," Gallagher said. "He's doing supply-side criminal justice reform."

Ending the cycle of criminalized poverty that drives mass incarceration is a noble goal indeed. Whether it's possible to make New Yorkers so well housed and fed that they have nothing to fear from a criminal justice system still geared toward arrest and incarceration may be another question.〞

https://hellgatenyc.com/mamdanis-policing-looks-a-lot-like-eric-adamss-policing/

#NYC #ACAB #Abolition #Politics

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Sheinbaum announces the construction of six new prisons after the population of imprisoned people grows by 15% during her term.

https://www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/2026/8/12/sheinbaum-planea-construir-seis-penales-ante-aumento-de-la-poblacion-penitenciaria-377875.html

#Mexico #prisons #abolition

Content Warning: mass murder for money.

(Stuff the British Stole series 3)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-12/the-zong-slavery-jamaica-england-stuff-the-british-stole/106923602

#Abolition #art #booksofmastodon #Capitalism #Colonialism #quilting #slavery #Zong

Le #Liban adopte l’ #abolition de la #peinedemort, une première au Proche- et au Moyen-Orient
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/08/11/le-liban-adopte-l-abolition-de-la-peine-de-mort-une-premiere-au-proche-et-au-moyen-orient_6743866_3210.html
Cette décision a été qualifiée d’« historique » par le ministre de la justice libanais, Adel Nassar. Le pays n’avait plus procédé à des exécutions depuis 2004.
On espère que la justice va continuer à se renforcer au Liban
#justiceForLokman

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rare misdemeanor charges filed against Ohio prison employees who definitely killed an inmate.

nurses, in particular, need to face charges and lose their licenses for this kind of shit that happens ALL THE TIME.

https://pnqk.me/8rluhp #prisonabolition #abolition #medicalfascism

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Hey, the petiiton is ready to go.

Here's the thing, in the wake of Seattle's 2020 protests one of the supposed BIG win's was WA's Karen Law.

The only problem is that a Karen still spends nothing calling the cops and ANY single cop interaction with a false basis could be deadly.

The legislature reocgnized this be making Karen's liable for police mistakes.

But shouldn't the STATE also be liable for cop violence?

https://www.change.org/p/make-karen-law-accessible-in-washington-state

#Karen #KarenLaw #BlackLivesMAtter #PWN #abolition #ACAB

"'This year we’ve seen such a skyrocketing of numbers that indicates how much people are willing to put their lives at risk in order to call attention to these conditions that are ultimately life-threatening for people.'"

https://prismreports.org/2026/07/27/hunger-strikes-ice-detention-centers/

#ICE #immigration #abolition #USpol

"'We wouldn’t let anyone else live in a place that doesn’t have a smoke detector.'"

https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/07/prisons-fire-watch/

#California #prisons #abolition