Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 31: Abolish the Police
Cathy G. Johnson
Artwork by remus jackson.
Drawing a Dialogue is a podcast discussing comics in historical + educational contexts by Cathy G. Johnson + remus jackson.
Episode 31: In this episode, Cathy + remus talk about police abolition, and what comics are capable (and NOT capable) of doing. Comics as an activist tool are discussed, as well as ways educators can work to eliminate police presence in schools. Solidarity forever. Black lives matter.
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Episode Links:
A Brief History of Slavery and the Origins of American Policing, Victor E. Kappeler, Ph.D. - Link
Angela Davis, “Are Prisons Obsolete?” 2003 - PDF
Founder/ Director of Project NIA, Mariame Kaba’s website on prison abolition - usprisonculture.com
Critical Resistance, a long time abolitionist, transformative justice/mutual aid org - criticalresistance.org
African American Intellectual History Society’s Abolition syllabus - Link
Big drive folder compiling texts by radical Black thinkers/activists, compiled by Alijah Webb - Link
Guidebook to police alternatives created by @raeddand, 2020 - Link
Anti-racism resources for White people, made by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein, 2020 - Link
“A Decade of Watching Black People Die,” Code Switch, May 31st 2020 - NPR
I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina, published by Lee & Low Books, 2017 - Social Justice Books
March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydan + Nate Powell, 246 pages, Top Shelf Productions, 2016 - ComicArtEd
Teaching Tolerance, Racism + Police Violence teaching resources - Link
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 16: Incarceration, the School-to-Prison Pipeline + Resistance - Link
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 23: Restorative / Transformative Justice - Link
Justice Policy Institute, Education Under Arrest: The Case Agasint Police in Schools - PDF
Minneapolis Public School System broke ties with the Minneapolis Police Department: Minneapolis School Board Director Josh Pauly - Twitter
Update: On 6/2/20, this resolution was been voted on and passed.
University of Minnesota also broke a bunch of ties with the Minneapolis Police Department - Twitter
Providence Student Union, Student Bill of Rights - Link
“Equity Work Should Start From the Top” - Teaching Tolerance
“Nearly $4M cut from Providence’s proposed school budget” - Providence Journal
“Cut funding for wasteful police/prison expenditures, e.g. the proposed $35 million state police barracks.” - Twitter
Theme song by Downtown Boys