Tag Archives: DefundThePolice

Radio: Dispatches from the movement for police abolition in Canada

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Scott

Ellie Ade Kur and Abby Stadnyk are grassroots organizers with abolitionist politics. They are also both involved in Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada (Between the Lines, 2022), a new book collection bringing together pieces by organizers and scholars … Continue reading →

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Radio — Police and prison abolitionist organizing in Vancouver

Posted on November 23, 2021 by Scott

Tonye Aganaba and Chantelle Spicer live in the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people, in what is colonially known as Vancouver. They are active in the Defund 604 Network, a collective that organizes around police and prison … Continue reading →

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Radio: Prison abolition and how we respond to the worst forms of gendered violence

Posted on October 12, 2021 by Scott

Ardath Whynacht is an activist, writer, and scholar who lives in Mi’kmaq territory and teaches sociology at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. She is also the author of Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide (Fernwood Publishing, Nov 2021) which … Continue reading →

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Radio — Fighting to get police out of Winnipeg schools

Posted on November 24, 2020 by Scott

Cam Scott, Daniel Friesen, and Irene Bindi are community organizers and members of Police-Free Schools Winnipeg. Scott Neigh speaks with them about the struggle to get police out of Winnipeg schools. In general, middle-class white people tend to experience police as a source … Continue reading →

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