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Rad Webinar - a webinar series from Law For Black Lives. Guest speaker: Benji Hart.

Abolition 101: Foundations is a dive into abolition during a time of heightened law enforcement and deployment of troops and ICE to U.S. cities. This session grounds us in the truth that police is police is police -- whether it's local PD, ICE, or militarized federal forces -- and that these systems exist to invisibilize and manage harm, not prevent it.

Together, we will unpack:

* What abolition means (and what it doesn't)
* Why abolition--not reform--is necessary
* What we are naming when we say abolish police and prisons
* Abolition as a framework and a practice

Held in collaboration with Benji Hart, this workshop draws on Ruth Wilson Gilmore's framing of abolition as "about presence, not absence." Through guided discussion and a collective exercise mapping instances of harm -- and the interventions that could have prevented them--participants will interrogate PICE as an inherent form of violence and imagine the resources that actually create safety.

Register at http://www.tinyurl.com/l4blabolition101