The Abolition Open School: How We Spread the Message (an ASA 2020 Freedom Course)

An American Studies Association 2020 Freedom Course The Abolition Open School: How We Spread the Message How do we build public media platforms and engage abolitionist practices in this political moment? Join Kim Wilson and Brian Sonenstein (Beyond Prisons Podcast); J. Khadijah Abdurahman (We Be Imagining); and Hamid Khan (Stop LAPD Spying) as the engage in a conversation around this very important question and talk to us about how we effectively tell the stories of our communities and share information and other resources so we can get free. The Abolition Open School is a Cops Off Campus collaboration between abolitionist groups working across the California State University (CSU) and University of California (UC) systems who seek to build shared knowledge of abolitionist principles with our communities. This is a series of conversations, debates, and interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and others impacted by the carceral state, colonialism, and racial capitalism. Collectively, The Abolition Open School seeks to explore the history, necessity, and shared horizon of abolition in an accessible way for those both familiar with and new to abolitionist strategies and practices.