David Walker Abolition & Freedom Reading Group
Join ANUBIS as we work and struggle alongside a several of other communities members (Lettie Gore, George Vlasits, Ashley Daniels, and others) as well as various other local organizations (New Hanover 4 All, DSA, and others) to collaborate in building a gentle space to cultivate a shared understanding and language around abolition aimed at producing a shared language and conceptual language regarding abolition and its different traditions.
Next Meeting: Wednesday, September 22, 8pm
Register: bit.ly/abolition-reading
September 22 Meeting Materials
In our initial meeting, we will be discussing our guiding pedagogy (or art of learning), voicing our needs and expectations, and beginning to build a conceptual foundation around abolition, racial capitalism, and the prison industrial complex. We recommend engaging with the materials below to guide our initial conversation.
Read: Freire, Paulo. “Chapter 2,” in Pedagogy of the Oppressed
hooks, bell. “Introduction,” and “Chapter 1: Engaged Pedagogy,” in Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Read: Kelley, Robin D.G., “What did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism”
Watch: “Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore”
Read: Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier, "Introduction," in Rethinking the American Prison Movement
Read: Kaba, Mariame, “Yes, We Literally Mean Abolish the Police
Recommended: “What is Racial Capitalism and Why Does it Matter?”
Further Reading: Robinson, Cedric. “Introduction” and “Chapter 1 – Racial Capitalism: The Nonobjective Character of Capitalist Development” in Black Marxism
For a deeper dive and more resources around abolition, check out a selection curated here.
let this radicalize you, rather than lead you to despair…
— Mariame Kaba
Upcoming events
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Mariame Kaba
In our upcoming meetings, we will be delving into Mariame Kaba's, We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice. You can purchase a copy of the book directly from Haymarket Books, bookshop.org, or your favorite local book seller. George Vlasits has a longstanding relationship with Pomegranate Books and can get books at a discounted group price, so if you’d like please let us know. If you need access to the book and/or cannot afford it, please contact us here and we'll do our best to get you a physical or digital copy as soon as possible.
Lastly, please take a few minutes to fill out this short poll so we have a better sense of who all is interested in learning with us!