Indyclass October 17, 2008 – a brainstorm:
How do we make prisons obsolete?
Language/discourse
-government is in state of trespass on stolen Native land (change the terms of ownership)
-“victim” vs. “criminal” = problematic
-“security” – question whose security, etc.
Decriminalization
-sex work
-immigration
-survival crimes
-non-status people
Social Services/programs
-rehabilitations
End genocidal policies to Indigenous people
-“Third World” nation situation
-recognize demands
-land claims
-Olympics
Food security (?word)
-communal eating
-urban agriculture
Rape criminalization: looks at bodies as private property
Listening to survivors of sexual assault for ideas on rehabilitation
Bringing more anti-oppressive/anti-racist analysis to problems.
Conflict Resolution on smaller levels
Pushing for reform vs. Abolition?
-reforms should force people to shift money into the services sector (e.g. from prisons/military to…)
Community justice/Mediation/Restorative Justice
Get rid of bail (i.e. needing to give money for bail)
No imprisonment before conviction.
No mandatory minimums.
No forced prison labor.
Free and accessible education.
Popular education
-including edu. on listening, non-violent communication
Less or NO money to “national security”
Financial stability of collective, not just individual
More structures for communal living.
Create new forms of wealth redistribution
-collective bank accounts
-funding
Independent media.
Decarceration.
No borders.
Getting lawyers on side.
Getting rid of police structure/surveillance culture
-cop watch, deter police brutality
Networks for bail money for incarcerated activists.
