The Abolition Suite is a series of AirGo episodes exploring the concepts and practices of policing and prison abolition with the thought leaders who have been pushing an abolitionist future forward for decades. The Abolitionist Suite is presented in support of the #DefundCPD campaign and the Black Abolitionist Network.

Volume 3 features writer, organizer, and movement worker Andrea Ritchie. Andrea is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, and has devoted the last 25 years naming and advocating for women of color, especially LGBTQ women of color, who have been victims of police violence. Ritchie co-authored the report SayHerName: Police Violence against Black Women and Women of Color with Kimberle Crenshaw and the African American Policy Forum. She and the guys talk about the portals opening in this moment, the ways that gender-based violence is an intrinsic tactic of policing, and much more.

SHOW NOTES:

CORRECTION: In this episode, we state that Congressman Elijah Cummings is still alive and well. The congressman passed away in 2019.

Sign on to the #DefundCPD campaign: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-to-demand-defunding-of-the-chicago-police-department

July 17 Black and Indigenous Solidarity Rally: https://www.facebook.com/events/s/black-indigenous-solidarity-ra/580611602644351/

Arrested Justice by Beth Ritchie: https://nyupress.org/9780814776223/arrested-justice/

INCITE!, a network of radical feminists of color organizing to end state violence and violence in our homes and communities. https://incite-national.org/

Blackness, Animality, and the Unsovereign by Che Gossett: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2228-che-gossett-blackness-animality-and-the-unsovereign

Dancing the Carceral Creep by Mimi Kim: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/804227k6

Ruthie Wilson Gilmore: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html

Breonna Taylor and Gentrification: https://www.salon.com/2020/07/06/breonna-taylor-lawsuit-claims-no-knock-warrant-was-part-of-louisville-gentrification-plan/

Octavia Butler: https://octaviabutler.org/

Nalo Hopkinson: http://nalohopkinson.com/index.html

Interrupting Criminalization: https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/

Vision 4 Black Lives 2020: https://m4bl.org/policy-platforms/

In Our Names Network: https://www.inournamesnetwork.com/

Invisible No More: http://invisiblenomorebook.com/

Recorded 7/6/20

Music from this week's show:

Song 33 - Noname

I'll Do My Best - The Ritchie Family