“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

When they propose spending increases on violence work, you can treat that as a big pot of money that should be given to life affirming things instead.

probably should abolish the police at the same time just to be safe

We rely on the volunteer support from everyday people to get this important mahi done - if you can this year, please consider donating to our Holiday Card Drive fundraiser here: givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-p...

We invite you along to draw, write, or decorate holiday cards to go to people behind bars during this holiday season, whilst sharing kai & connection with other wonderful people from the community.

Ōtepoti friends & whānau, come along to our Holiday Card Drive event on Sunday 23 November from 1-4pm at the Fua Lelei Room, Catholic Social Services, 42 Macandrew Bay Road. www.facebook.com/events/13638...

can’t wait to read this, need to order asap!

We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.

this coming Sunday, Ōtepoti!! @papa.org.nz @pcn.nz

People Against Prisons Aotearoa invites you to support us in calling on the Department of Corrections to give people in prisons appropriate clothing and hygienic supplies on Sunday 16 November from 1PM outside Auckland Region Womens Corrections Facility. www.facebook.com/events/68706...

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

No efforts to reform policing have ever been successful because the police cannot be reformed - they are enemies of equality that we must struggle against and overcome.

The massive cover-up of allegations made against former Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming gets right at key contradictions in policing itself. The police exist in order to maintain social order - but that social order is fundamentally unjust.

The Department of Corrections is failing to provide people basic necessities like hygenic bedding, underwear, socks, shoes and thermals. This is a breach of human rights and a failure to care for those in state care. Sign our petition: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ge...

We invite you along to draw, write, or decorate holiday cards to go to people behind bars during this holiday season, whilst sharing kai & connection with other wonderful people from the community.

We are holding our 9th annual holiday card drive! We’ll be sending holiday cards to hundreds of incarcerated people. We rely on the volunteer support from everyday people to get this important mahi done - if you can this year, please donate to our fundraiser: givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-p...

Demand that NZ's Unisaver divest from Israel and companies complicit in occupation and genocide docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

ah two of my faves, what a treat!!! my fav things I’ve read this year are def enemy feminisms, the politics of emotional life, and everything for everyone: an oral history of the New York commune 2052-2072 (also the main subjects of my lectures/conversations/monologues over the last six months)

So called "prison riots" are a last resort protest against intolerable, inhumane conditions. We need an investigation and full transparency around what prompted this. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Experimental philosophy

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

Week in Review: Humour mixed with anger at the first day of a 'people's select committee' on the Government's controversial pay equity changes.

Those concerned about violence might want to start with violence against immigrants, by ICE here, by illegal deportations to gulags and third countries, the violence against so many federal departments, against the law, the climate, the public lands, waters, civil rights, reproductive rights...

Every time they say “we can’t afford that,” remember: they could afford armored tanks, a dictators birthday parade, and enough tear gas to choke a city. They just don’t want you fed, safe, or alive.

organizers from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla has announced those aboard the Madleen have been abducted by the Israeli army, and the aid resources aboard taken

carceral realism: it is easier to imagine the end of america than the end of cops?

Huge win for the TEU which is now a P@lest!ne Solidarity Union. 🇵🇸

Comment from the University of Otago: The Best Start payment helped me continue my education – cutting it harms countless families

Otago staff/students/grads - former and current - please sign on. If you’re in Ōtepoti, please come along on May 15 12pm at the Museum lawn to adopt this Declaration together. @uwp-aotearoa.bsky.social

Otago alumni may want to sign this Declaration on the Situation in Palestine: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

newsrooms of the world did u know that when Rümeysa Öztürk gets out you can pay her to write an editorial, and then publish it? did u know that if all of you did this it would be a whole thing and a good one

Oh this makes me cry

The Week That Was: Under urgency, Govt rushed bills that kill kiwi, silence pay equity claims, & punish striking workers. A war on wāhine, workers, & wildlife all in one week. Meanwhile, developers laugh all the way to the bank Hika mā! #StopTheBill #WarOnWāhine #TePātiMāori #UrgencyAbused #NZPol

3 helicopters fly overhead Columbia as NYC Mayor Eric Adams announces NYPD is on its way to campus

Remember that time 95% of Iceland’s women went on strike from their paid work and unpaid household labour and childcare? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Ic...

Rights are not privileges – they are rights. And history shows that when they are taken away, they are not easily restored.

Why I’ve told my principal I will not teach the new proposed English curriculum

From Auckland University - Opinion: Stripping thousands of people of the right to vote shows the Crown never believed in sacred democratic principles to begin with.

People Against Prisons Aotearoa spokesperson and UoA criminologist Dr Emmy Rākete said the total voting ban was an “attack on democratic principles”. “The Supreme Court has already ruled that banning prisoners from voting is unlawful. The Government is spitting on the rule of law,” she said. #nzpol

The art featured in the post below is from our abolition imagination postcards project, which features beautiful quotes/art on All of the art is available for free our website. Explore, download, print, share, imagine: bit.ly/ImaginationCards

She wrote an article in the student newspaper. That’s all she did. The U.S. can’t call itself a free country if that gets you sent to jail.

This right here. Spreading "perfect victim" or "innocence" narratives is dangerous and cedes ground on the fact that *all* people deserve dignity, humane treatment, and access to due process. Feeding into perfect victim or innocence narratives isn't just irresponsible messaging, it is copaganda.

and, as @interruptcrim.bsky.social says, defunding is the basement floor - abolition is the sky we are reaching for

"The demand to defund is just the basement floor, abolition is the sky we are reaching for." — @dreanyc123.bsky.social and @prisonculture.bsky.social in No More Police: A Case for Abolition Resources related to the book (excerpts, interviews, videos) are available for free here: bit.ly/NoMorePolice

We have allowed ourselves to believe that it's normal to have 4% of the world's population and 25% of the world's prisoners. We have allowed prisons that violate multiple basic provisions of international humanitarian law. Our prisons are filled with people being literally tortured.