We need to abolish the death penalty globally. Government sanctioned murder of the proletariat should never be okay.
The people killing the government, and/or the powers that be, is perfectly acceptable.
Punch up, not down.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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Abolition of police and prisons
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Abolish is to flourish! Against the prison industrial complex and for transformative justice.
See Critical Resistance's definitions below:
The Prison Industrial Complex
The prison industrial complex (PIC) is a term we use to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social and political problems.
Through its reach and impact, the PIC helps and maintains the authority of people who get their power through racial, economic and other privileges. There are many ways this power is collected and maintained through the PIC, including creating mass media images that keep alive stereotypes of people of color, poor people, queer people, immigrants, youth, and other oppressed communities as criminal, delinquent, or deviant. This power is also maintained by earning huge profits for private companies that deal with prisons and police forces; helping earn political gains for "tough on crime" politicians; increasing the influence of prison guard and police unions; and eliminating social and political dissent by oppressed communities that make demands for self-determination and reorganization of power in the US.
Abolition
PIC abolition is a political vision with the goal of eliminating imprisonment, policing, and surveillance and creating lasting alternatives to punishment and imprisonment.
From where we are now, sometimes we can't really imagine what abolition is going to look like. Abolition isn't just about getting rid of buildings full of cages. It's also about undoing the society we live in because the PIC both feeds on and maintains oppression and inequalities through punishment, violence, and controls millions of people. Because the PIC is not an isolated system, abolition is a broad strategy. An abolitionist vision means that we must build models today that can represent how we want to live in the future. It means developing practical strategies for taking small steps that move us toward making our dreams real and that lead us all to believe that things really could be different. It means living this vision in our daily lives.
Abolition is both a practical organizing tool and a long-term goal.
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Like a certain Italian who likes green and punches up to hit bricks and get rewards?
The execution proceeded after Governor Mike Braun, a Republican, denied Ritchie’s clemency request following the unanimous recommendation of the Indiana Parole Board and the US Supreme Court who denied without comment the condemned man’s request for a stay of execution.
Republicans are experts at not listening to what experts and their constituents want.
It's honestly a vast majority of every part of powerful people in society; Democrats, CEOs, and even most journalists nowadays. Republicans have just let the mask slip sooner than the rest