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Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉I have often been told that I was cynical for believing that laws are made by the ruling class to control the rest of us for their benefit. I've often been told that I'm utopian for believing that we'd be better off without laws and the people that use them to control us. Apparently the non-cynical POV is that laws are made democratically by society for our collective benefit. Apparently the non-utopian POV is that people need to be controlled otherwise we'll harm one another. But how cynical to believe that people are just naturally so dangerous that the constant threat of police violence is necessary to stop us from hurting each other. How utopian to believe that the violence of law enforcement can be restrained and directed by mere laws, that pieces of paper can protect us from bullets and clubs. I'm not cynical, I'm not utopian, I'm an anarchist!<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anarchism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Utopianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Utopianism</a>

Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉LA Metro will vote tomorrow on creating their own police force rather than contracting with LAPD and LASD as they currently do and here's the LA Times editorializing in favor of this absolutely gross plan. This editorial is chock full of lies about safety, declining ridership, etc. Obviously this plan is about harassing the homeless, the poor, and other vulnerable populations, because that's what the cops do now. These people have never ridden a damn bus."While there are legitimate concerns about the cost and logistics of building a police department from scratch, including Metro’s ability to staff up at a time when agencies are struggling to hire officers, contracting for law enforcement service is not working well. It’s time to try a different approach. Metro is facing a doom spiral if it cannot make the system safer and increase ridership. An in-house police force is not a panacea for all the system’s ills, but rather one piece of a broader safety strategy that ensures riders feel comfortable and well served on L.A. public transit."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LosAngeles</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LAMetro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LAMetro</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LAPD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LAPD</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LASD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LASD</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PublicTransportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicTransportation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a><a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-06-26/editorial-why-metro-wants-its-own-police-force-again" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-06-26/editorial-why-metro-wants-its-own-police-force-again</a>

Ⓐnarchist hacker village 🏴💻<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Intro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Intro</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Introduction</a>We are the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anarchist</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hacker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hacker</a> village at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HOPEXV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HOPEXV</a>! July 12th-14th, at St. John's University in Queens, NYC.An anarchist, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Queer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Feminist</a>, self-organized and do-it-together space. Where <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hacking</a> is a tool for total <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Liberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Liberation</a>. Come to meet others, discuss ideas, and conspire against all forms of oppression. Or just for a chill social space. We'll have free <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zines</a>, stickers, and more!Follow this account for updates on what we're up to during the conference, boosts appreciated! Help us spread the word!<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anarchism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anarchy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiAuthoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiAuthoritarian</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiFa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiFa</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiFascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiFascist</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreePalestine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HackerCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HackerCon</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hackers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hackers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HackThePlanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HackThePlanet</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hacktivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hacktivism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandBack</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Piracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Piracy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrisonAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrisonAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Privacy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Programming</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SolarPunk</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trans</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransRights</a>

Liam O'Mara IV, PhDAnother example of *cough* "America's Finest" has been caught showing what complete and utter trash he is. That police departments keep hiring violent arseholes like this tells us the whole barrel is rotten. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DefundThePolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DefundThePolice</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a><a href="https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/crime/2024/04/17/york-city-officer-faces-charges-in-connection-to-13-month-olds-injuries/73353680007/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/crime/2024/04/17/york-city-officer-faces-charges-in-connection-to-13-month-olds-injuries/73353680007/</a>

Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉Huge win for LA Students Deserve!! 50 positions to be cut from LAUSD school police and $3.7 million to be allocated to community safety programs!<a href="https://www.studentsdeserve.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.studentsdeserve.org/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LosAngeles</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LAUSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LAUSD</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SchoolPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SchoolPolice</a>

Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉The Riders Come Out at Night by <a href="https://sfba.social/@darwinbondgraham" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@darwinbondgraham</a> and Ali Winston is a highly detailed, highly local recent history of Oakland PD. It's essential reading for abolitionists. So many of the arguments against police abolition are based on abstract ideas about the police that just don't match up with real experience. So many opponents of abolition are deeply invested in theoretical and false ideas of what police do. This book is loaded with reality. It's really good -- I highly recommend it!<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Police</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oakland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oakland</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#California</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a><a href="https://search.worldcat.org/title/1330896303" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://search.worldcat.org/title/1330896303</a>

Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉Watch the watchers is a website set up by Stop LAPD Spying where you can look up LAPD officers by name or serial number and see their official headshots. It's incredibly useful for cop watching and other activism and it's one year old today!<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LAPD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LAPD</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WatchTheWatchers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WatchTheWatchers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopLAPDSpying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StopLAPDSpying</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LosAngeles</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LosAngeles</a><a href="https://watchthewatchers.net/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://watchthewatchers.net/</a>

Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉Since it came up in another thread I thought I'd post a link to About Face, an anti-war, anti-cop veterans organization.----We are Post-9/11 service members and veterans organizing to end a foreign policy of permanent war and the use of military weapons, tactics, and values in communities across the country. As people intimately familiar with the inner workings of the world’s largest military, we use our knowledge and experiences to expose the truth about these conflicts overseas and the growing militarization in the United States.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AboutFace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AboutFace</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForeverWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ForeverWar</a><a href="https://aboutfaceveterans.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://aboutfaceveterans.org/</a>

Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉Capitalists are lion tamers and the working people they exploit are the lion. Capitalists provide us with food, shelter, education, and other goods, and in return we perform for their profit. Lion tamers feed and shelter their lions for the same reason. Without those needs being met we and the lions would rebel and kill them or else die and not profit our masters. Without education, without training, we and the lions wouldn't be of use to them. Capitalists and lion tamers meet the needs of their victims that are expedient for them to meet. In neither case are the interests of their victims a motive. But we're not lions. We can at least potentially figure out what's going on and act on our understanding.Lion tamers whip their lions to make them perform and capitalists have the police to keep us in line. By the time they're trained lions only need to see the whip to know what's best for them to do. Without violence or the threat of violence we'd rise up and rebel.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Police</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LionTamers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LionTamers</a>

Unsalted Counter-InfoA Report-Back and Call to Action from Madison, Wisconsin"On Tuesday February 13th, University of Wisconsin police officers assaulted at least two UW students at a protest against Israeli arms suppliers BAE systems, CAT and General Dynamics at a “career fair” on their campus. ... We thought people might like to know a little more about [officer] Boardman ... Adam E Boardman address: 2031 Saint Albert the Great Drive Sun Prairie, WI 53590 work phone number: 608-265-0022 home phone number: 608-843-4304 work email: adam.boardman@wisc.edu, AEB@athletics.wisc.edu. "<a href="https://unsalted.noblogs.org/post/2024/02/21/a-report-back-and-call-to-action-from-madison-wisconsin/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://unsalted.noblogs.org/post/2024/02/21/a-report-back-and-call-to-action-from-madison-wisconsin/</a>(Photo is of officer Boardman, staring directly at the camera)<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Madison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Madison</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wisconsin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wisconsin</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreePalestine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceViolence</a>

Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉If you want to know the level of extreme violence police are capable of just look at what people will do to avoid it. Homeless people will literally die of exposure on the street in front of a vacant building rather than breaking in and saving themselves. What kind of terroristic threats would it take for you to make that choice? That's what police will do to you.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Homelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Homelessness</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Violence</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AbolishThePolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AbolishThePolice</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Squatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Squatting</a>

Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉Police violence is more than just physical assault, more than just shooting, killing, beating.Every day unhoused people die from living on the street. Police stop them from building themselves houses on the hundreds of millions of acres of unused land, from living in the millions of vacant units in the US. This is also police violence.Every day millions of people go hungry in the US. Police stop them from eating the millions of tons of wasted food. This is also violence.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anarchism</a>

Unsalted Counter-InfoNoise Demo Outside of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago"In 2024, as always, it’s time to call for the abolition of police, prisons, and prosecutors."<a href="https://unsalted.noblogs.org/post/2024/01/02/noise-demo-outside-of-the-metropolitan-correctional-center-in-chicago/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://unsalted.noblogs.org/post/2024/01/02/noise-demo-outside-of-the-metropolitan-correctional-center-in-chicago/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chicago</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anarchism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoiseDemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoiseDemo</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrisonAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrisonAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NYE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NYE</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewYearsEve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewYearsEve</a>

Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉I just watched LA 92, about the uprising after the acquittal of the cops who beat Rodney King. It was excellent and I recommend it. It also got me thinking about anti-abolition rhetoric, which so often relies on the unexamined claim that without the justice system, cops, judges, jails, society would descend into chaos.Both '92 and the 1965 Watts rebellion were huge compared to other twentieth century American uprisings, but objectively they were small scale compared to the mad max scenarios predicted by anti-abolitionists. In both cases LAPD was overwhelmed, unable to restore order without a full scale military occupation. Police alone are incapable of preventing civil disorder. There just aren't enough of them. Los Angeles isn't occupied by the military to the extent that history shows is required to restore and maintain law and order and yet it's generallly quite peaceful here. People can and do just get along. This day to day calm cooperation is the default. It's certainly not due to the cops because history shows they can't enforce it.Not only that but both rebellions were kicked off by police brutality sanctioned and approved by the justice system.* In the case of '92 this was exacerbated by a judge's sentencing Latasha Harlins's killer to probation rather than the recommended ten years incarceration. It's easy to make a case that without cops and courts neither uprising would have happened.So the fact that Americans are largely peaceful isn't due to cops and courts while two of the twentieth century's biggest instances of civil disorder were caused by cops and courts and cops and courts were unable to quell them. Tell me again why we need cops and courts?---- * A jury acquitted the cops who beat King, but it was a judge who changed the venue to Simi Valley, practically guaranteeing this outcome.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LosAngeles</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LA92" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LA92</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WattsRebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WattsRebellion</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LA_92_(film)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LA_92_(film)</a>

Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉Here's a problem I have trying to explain to people why I want to abolish police, abolish prisons. No matter how I phrase things many people hear a moral argument. That police are evil, prisons are evil. But this isn't at all what I mean. In fact seeing the issue that way, as a matter of good and evil, completely obscures the explanation. It brings it into the realm of opinion. It lets people nod their heads and stop listening. Of course people can disagree over things like this!Dichotomies like that, good/evil, moral/immoral, work this way to cover up truths about the world that are impossible to face and still go on normally. The two poles of such dichotomies immediately conjure up a continuum between them. If something is evil or immoral it can be made less evil or less immoral and that's some kind of progress. Not accepting this kind of incrementalism makes one a moralist, a perfectionist, an idealist, a purist, someone who can ultimately be ignored, someone they can agree to disagree with, like we all do in order to get along with people with so many matters of opinion. There's no need to listen any more, it's just another extreme theoretical position among all the others.Imagine buzzards eating corpses on the road with their heads deep in the guts of a rotting deer. The stench of death, the slimy putrid ooze on their bald heads. It's not evil, it's how they live, but it's not how human beings live. Being seen by other people willingly, joyfully, smearing one's body with corpse juice, reveling in putrefied rotting dead goop, eating gobbets of rotting flesh, would be shameful, inhuman. It's beyond good and evil. It's not the kind of thing that invites accepting, polite disagreement. No one wants to hear that person's explanations about why wallowing in rotten corpses is good, actually. We want to run far away.This is what the police are like, what prisons are. They thrive on the bodies of murder victims, they blossom on fields soaked with human blood, rotting corpses. Cops, jailers, their supporters, are willingly swimming in pools of rotten stinking death, joyfully breathing its vapors. This essence is very, very well- hidden inside whitewashed mausoleums by ideologies, social narratives, cultural handshakes, and so on. I saw this all of a sudden a few years ago and I can't unsee it, the corpses swinging in the wind hanged by the tens of thousands and left to decay, but it's not so easy to explain to people. It's not a matter of stating the right facts, measuring the right statistics, it's a way of looking at the world. It can't be explained quickly, which in practice means often it can't be explained at all.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrisonAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrisonAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhitedSepulchres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhitedSepulchres</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BeyondGoodAndEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BeyondGoodAndEvil</a>

Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉Even if abolitionists came up with pragmatic and convincing answers to every possible question about handling violence without police, and I have no doubt that they can, will, and mostly already have done so, they’ll never convince anyone that capitalism can survive abolition. It cannot. I don’t know how to get rid of the police – if I did they’d already be gone. But I think the stakes are too high, the very survival of capitalism itself, for the police to be abolished because the arguments are sound, because it’s the right thing to do, because enough people want it to happen. Abolition will be a revolution. It will take a revolution to make it happen. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anarchy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anarchism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheAnarchistLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheAnarchistLibrary</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a><a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/adrian-riskin-end-of-policing-means-the-end-of-capitalism-some-likely-but-rarely-discussed-econ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/adrian-riskin-end-of-policing-means-the-end-of-capitalism-some-likely-but-rarely-discussed-econ</a>

Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉A great deal of discussion about police abolition concerns non-police responses to violent crime, but most police work is unrelated to violent crime. Most, maybe all, of this is economic in nature – designed to keep working people from using productive property to meet their own needs directly – to keep the commons enclosed. This work means the police are inextricably integrated into the economy in surprising ways that are largely undiscussed in the context of abolition, which would trigger monumental, almost unimaginable changes in how we as a society meet our human needs through work. It’s likely that the end of policing would mean the end of capitalism, which suggests that it won’t be easy to achieve given the magnitude of what’s at stake.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Police</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LosAngeles</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anarchy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anarchism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Enclosure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Enclosure</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Commons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Commons</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Landlords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Landlords</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TenantsRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TenantsRights</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Squatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Squatting</a><a href="https://chez-risk.in/2023/08/24/the-end-of-policing-means-the-end-of-capitalism-some-likely-but-rarely-discussed-economic-effects-of-abolition/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://chez-risk.in/2023/08/24/the-end-of-policing-means-the-end-of-capitalism-some-likely-but-rarely-discussed-economic-effects-of-abolition/</a>

Angel City Anarchist BandStop cop city stickers. Low bulk prices!<a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/AngelCityAB" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.etsy.com/shop/AngelCityAB</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Stickers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stickers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anarchism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anarchy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StopCopCity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckLAPD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckLAPD</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a>

HeavenlyPossumA lot of people would probably say that we “need” some sort of Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). In the US, the DMV manages the critical process of licensing people to operate motor vehicles on American roadways. Considering that there are nearly 300 million cars and over 4 million miles of road, it’s very important that we have some kind of minimum standard of skill and ability to keep all those people safe as they hurtle their multi-ton boxes of metal, plastic, and glass at high rates of speed in very close proximity to each other and people walking or cycling. Even with the DMV managing this process, 46,000 Americans still die each year from traffic collisions. So you can only imagine how bad it would be if there were no DMV!Now let’s imagine that we were to discover that, in addition to licensing drivers, employees of the DMV were, in their official capacity, routinely killing people and stealing millions of dollars from them each year. Let’s imagine we discovered one DMV was rife with gangs that commit serial murder and another had set up a torture chamber where DMV employers spent years torturing DMV patrons.Might you wonder what’s going on with the DMV?1/<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#police</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceViolence</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceAbolition</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a>

SkupprHeyooo this is my <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/intro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intro</a> post pls boosti'm a multiply <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/disabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disabled</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autistic</a> white <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trans</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lesbian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lesbian</a> living in the so-called uk (specifically on the island of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Britain</a>), I'm Bargee, I live nomadically on a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/narrowboat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#narrowboat</a> which I mostly successfully maintain myself. Interested in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToRepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RightToRepair</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/repair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#repair</a> more generally. A factor of the way autism manifests for me is hyperlexia (verbose speech, obsessive about choosing the exact right word, obsessed with learning new words and ways of speaking), this means my writing comes out really formal; read it as a class thing if you want but I'm working class, no now or future inherited wealth, no access to managerial or corporate power, lived paycheck to paycheck my whole adult life.Politically speaking i'm into <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/greenanarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greenanarchy</a>, I love the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/iww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iww</a>, i'm here for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/familyAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#familyAbolition</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policeabolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#policeabolition</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/transformativejustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transformativejustice</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prisonabolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prisonabolition</a>. I want an end to all colonial rule, capital, states, nations, borders and capital. In terms of the island I am on I am here for the end to the English occupation of the six northern counties in Ireland, the end of English rule/occupation/power in Scotland and Wales, and the end to all English overseas domination in all forms perpetrated under the flag of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I'm pessimistic about technology and I think it and legislation can't solve social problems.I mostly post about disability justice, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CovidIsNotOver</a>, queerness, transness, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukpol</a>, anarchism and anticapitalism.I'm a linux user, obviously, and a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#foss</a> advocate.I'll make a separate pinned post with a cw for sexy. Flirts welcome if you're a dyke, don't think covid is over and still mask up (or disability precludes you masking), and if you're like mid twenties or older (i'm in my thirties). CIS AND TRANS MEN NO FLIRTING, THIS IS IN CAPS BECAUSE YOUR PEOPLE SEEM INCAPABLE OF READING COMPREHENSION.To People of Colour: I collect my cousins, particularly white trans/disabled girls and autistics. If someone is doing a racism from an instance mine is federated with and you want collection please let me know. If I see this myself I do my best to not need asking. Being gracious and grateful when receiving criticism and asks for accountability or change in my behaviour is important to me and I do not expect your tone to be a certain way for me to hear it, and I am grateful for any time you take a chance on me and do me the generosity of feedback. I understand that feedback does not have to be complete and that a gift of feedback does not obligate the giver to provide further explanation/education/contact. I understand what diunital thinking is and do my best to employ it. I can usually keep my temper and own feelings in check when collecting and recuse myself when they get in the way of constructive action. I have no qualms with conflict, upsetting people and being "mean" where necessary, however. This paragraph is here for your informed consent and does not obligate you to like or trust me or interact with me.A note on language: I use nondisabled, disablis(t/m) to honour the disability activists I have known and organised with in Britain, over the more common americanisms abled, ablis(t/m) but I don't care what anyone else uses. I use C(oercively)AFAB and CAMAB over AFAB/AMAB and if you're TME I think you should do the same. I don't really mind what language other trans women and TMA people use but I would encourage you to look into the terf historical useage of FAB (female at birth) and the transmasc transmisogynist useage of AFABulous, as well as to think about how CAMAB both decenters our ASAB and centers the violent upholding of cisgenderism, and think about whether this might be a useful lingustic distinction for you. But I'm not the boss of you, do what feels important/right to you.

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