A Brief Introduction to Anti-colonial Abolition

From: Disarm, Defund, Dismantle

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In A Brief Introduction to Anti-colonial Abolition the Free Lands Free People group discusses how two facets of the Canadian penal system– policing and prisons– function to maintain and expand settler colonialism and support the ongoing genocide of Indigenous peoples. The chapter does this by applying an anti-colonial lens to abolition, and it examines the unbroken lineage of Indigenous dispossession at the hands of settlers and the settler state and the criminalization and incarceration of Indigenous peoples, as well as explores how Indigenous resistance movements, actions, and justice traditions are a potential space for abolitionist thought and action.