Join Metro DC DSA Abolition Working Group to connect with neighbors and learn how policing, police, and prisons do not keep us and our communities safe, what we would like to see instead, and how we can work together to build true safety for ourselves.
In this session, we'll discuss what policing and prisons are, what abolition means, what abolitionists do, how abolitionist approaches differ from other critiques (like mass incarceration), why abolitionists demand more than reform, what some alternatives to policing and prison look like, and the relationships between capitalism and the carceral state, abolition and socialism.
Event details:
Police Abolition 101 on Tuesday, February 3, 6pm-8pm
This event will be hybrid, with the in-person location at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in downtown DC and virtual access over Zoom (link sent after registration).