Join Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Harsha Walia, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Mijente, Paula X. Rojas and Beth Richie for a virtual discussion focused on the question: "How Do We Relate to the State?" This public event picks up threads of ongoing conversations among abolitionist organizers regarding the political processes, practices, and institutions that will bring us closer to visions of safer, thriving, and liberatory communities in which everyone's needs are met without surveillance, policing, or punishment.

How do we rehearse liberatory abolitionist forms of governance translocally and transnationally? How do we protect our experiments in the midst of a global rise in authoritarianism, climate collapse, and white supremacist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, and misogynist violence? What are the generative questions and possibilities organizers can and must engage as we develop and pursue strategies, campaigns, and demands focused on divestment from policing and investments in collective, non-carceral approaches to individual and community wellbeing in the context of a racial capitalist settler colonial carceral state?

*Note — this public event will be followed by a private virtual gathering in which abolitionist organizers will explore these questions in greater depth. If you have questions or are interested in learning more, please contact info@interruptingcriminalization.org.

Be sure to also check out our Abolition and the State Discussion Tool and 'zines gathering responses from organizers (volumes 1 and 2)!