- community based safety is rooted in abolitionist thought and praxis. Practicing CBS is inherently abolitionist, and abolitionists are the ones defining and creating new methods of safety in their communities.
- abolition is a politic defined by the burning desire to see the end of punitive and carceral culture and the actions and theories that underpin those ideas.
- abolition occurs first in our own minds, now, when we decide to kill the cop in our minds. from there abolition continues to unravel itself in our lives;
- it takes place first inside of you, then inside of your home as your beliefs and behaviors begin to change and then in your neighborhood and community as the ideas of justice and care and repair take root in place of the propaganda of punitivism.
- abolition isn’t just better; it is necessary. without abolition the path we are on can only lead us all to more sufferring, hatred, violence, oppression, and maybe one day, to extinction. abolition (of the white supremacist patriarchal system and the punitive institutions that enforce that system) is the basis for all forms of justice; environmental, racial, gendered, disabled, etc etc etc
- being an abolitionist takes 2 key actions: 1–to shut up, listen and learn and 2–to take those lessons and apply them to rewiring your thoughts and beliefs about fairness, punishment, justice, etc.
- (list of prompts to kill the cop in your head;)