AUTOMATING BANISHMENT is a community-based report envisioned, researched, drafted, and edited by dozens of people coming together to study the relationship of “data-driven policing” to real estate development and settler colonialism. The report comes from the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition’s Land and Policing Workgroup. But it belongs to the community, produced through collective study and grassroots self-defense. To join their work, email them at stoplapdspying@gmail.com or sign up for the community discussion groups they’re planning. You can also make a donation to their work.

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As social workers, social service practitioners, researchers, educators, students, and activists, we believe abolitionist inquiry, scholarship, and praxis in social work are of critical importance and aligned with the actualization of social work values. We have composed this open letter to the University of Houston, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), Society for Social Work and Research(SSWR), Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), National Association of Deans and Directors (NADD), and Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education (GADE) calling on each of these organizations to take action, inclusive of the steps below to support abolitionist efforts in social work.

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The Women’s Council supports the Breathe Act as a vision of societal well-being and safety, based on community self-determination, peer support, and self-care. The Electoral Justice Project of the Movement for Black Lives, which developed the Breathe Act, asks us to reimagine a new paradigm for public safety based on social work values (care, compassion, transformation, restoration, and recovery) while acknowledging our historic reliance on violence and lethal force. The task of reimaging is complex but crucial to human well-being. It requires the suspension of assumptions based on long-established paradigms in order to freely explore new paths toward social justice.

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