June 2022: Abolish Everything - Disability Justice
Start: 2022-06-01 19:00:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)
End: 2022-06-01 20:30:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)
This is a virtual event
The June 2022 meeting of the Abolish Everything Series will focus on "Disability Incarcerated" (formerly called "Disability Justice").
We will focus on two main sources:
- Mia Mingus, “Medical Industrial Complex Visual”
- Talila Lewis, “Disability Justice Is an Essential Part of Abolishing Police and Prisons”
Supplemental Reading:
- Washington Post articles (PDF copies) and video about a young Black autistic man - Matthew Rushin - sent to prison after a car accident
- Katie Tastrom, “Disability Justice and Abolition” - particularly beginning at the Crip Strategies for Abolition section of the article
- Patty Berne, “Disability Justice - A Working Draft”
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