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Month: June 2020

June 23, 7PM: Restorative Justice & Prison Abolition Discussion

Posted on June 16, 2020 by Creatrix

GilmoreDrawing upon our previous readings, we decided to take the topic of systemic racism and the police state further to explore issues relating to prison abolition and restorative justice.

We will be discussing two readings:

  1. Ruth Wilson Gilmore in the New York Times
  2.  Transformative Justice and Community Accountability

Although we are no longer physically meeting as a group, we still operate on occupied, unceded Lekwungen territory. Our next meeting will be held on our private Jitsi server on Tuesday, June 23th at 7pm PST. Jitsi is open-source software that is fully encrypted end-to-end, and which does not track your IP address. In the time when it seems like everyone’s falling for the most insecure communications platforms motivated solely to collect, sell and trade in your data, we created our own Jitsi instance as an infrastructural countermeasure.

If you are interested in participating in this week’s reading circle, please contact varc[at]victoriaanarchistreadingcircle.ca introducing yourself to confirm your place in the shadow-cabinet list and obtain access to the meeting.

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June 9: Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Creatrix

Justice for George Floyd

Given the recent events galvanizing resistance to systemic racism and police brutality in North America, we decided to delve deeper into the issue in order to unpack what it means in terms of building communities against social oppression and State violence. Our next reading is an excerpt from the edited anthology, Who Do You Serve? Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States. It was edited by Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan Price, and recently came out on The Anarchist Library this May, 2020.

We have assembled a series of 4 chapters from the second half of the book to discuss at our next circle.

  • Heeding the Call: Black Women Fighting for Black Lives That Matter by Thandisizwe Chimurenga
  • Our History and Our Dreams: Building Black and Native Solidarity by Kelly Hayes
  • A New Year’s Resolution: Don’t Call the Police by Mike Ludwig
  • Building Community Safety: Practical Steps Toward Liberatory Transformation by Ejeris Dixon

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Although we are no longer physically meeting as a group, we still operate on occupied, unceeded Lekwungen territory. Our next meeting will be held on our private Jitsi server on Tuesday, June 9th at 8pm PST. Jitsi is open-source software that is fully encrypted end-to-end, and which does not track your IP address. In the time when it seems like everyone’s falling for the most insecure communications platforms motivated solely to collect, sell and trade in your data, we created our own Jitsi instance as an infrastructural countermeasure.

If you are interested in participating in this week’s reading circle, please contact varc[at]victoriaanarchistreadingcircle.ca introducing yourself to confirm your place in the shadow-cabinet list and obtain access to the meeting.

 

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