I just got this lovely tote from the For Everyone Collective, and it’s such a perfect distillation of what abolition can be. For example, safety, housing, food, education, water for everyone. These calls can also be inspiration to think about the different ways we can all contribute!

The dog days of summer mean we don’t have as much to report this month, but still want to share resources and ideas for everyday abolition connected to different parts of work and community.

Also hoping that everyone is keeping as safe as possible given the environmental chaos we are all dealing with these days. Speaking of, take a re-look at last month’s update with resources and ideas about the connections between environmental planning and abolition.

à bientôt
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Learning + Action

• Grasping at the Root [Canadian Association of Black Lawyers]
  This report from the CABL gives an example of how other professions (even lawyers who are so tied into the criminal legal system) are working to support restorative and transformative justice.

• Jailing is Failing [Justice Reform Initiative]
  An initiative from Australia, so with lots of parallels to what we see in Canada, that is grounded in the lived experience of criminalized people and committed to alternatives.

• Alternatives to Policing Based on Disability Justice [issuu + The Abolitionist and Disability Justice Coalition]
  Abolition is everyday, and connects to so many different parts of our lives, this zine from a disability justice perspective reminds about the ways people in disability communities are criminalized, and what everyone can learn from the community.

• Penal Abolition & Restorative Justice [Canadian Friends Service Committee]
  Quakers have been calling for the abolition of prisons since 1981! And funding projects to support that work. Another example of how different parts of our identities can come together around restorative and transformative justice.

• Shareable Planning for Abolition Ideas [Basecamp/Planning for Abolition]
  From us, just for you! A set of shareable ideas that summarize some of our learning through the project and preview some of what we’ll be sharing in the fall.