Occupy Sonoma County

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"An abolitionist vision ultimately is a world without policing and prisons. And that builds on the work of Critical Resistance, the wonderful work of Angela Davis and Mariame Kaba and Ruth Wilson Gilmore and other important Black feminist voices, radical Black feminists, who encourage us to have these ambitious sort of freedom dreams of what the world could be. It’s not just about what we’re getting rid of. It’s what we want. We want a world where people’s needs are met... Wh...en people call for defunding, they’re saying, What would it mean for a public safety force to come out rather than police? What would it mean to have a social worker or a therapist on the scene instead of these police who are trained to shoot first and ask questions later? This is the problem. We need to reimagine what the world looks like. And we need to reimagine our social arrangement. For me, that is abolition." See more