About this Episode
In this Episode of It Will Probably Be OK, Nkenge talks through the ideas of defunding and abolishing the police. Additionally, Nick wistfully remembers making those cool S’s, and Gabe derails the whole conversation with so he can talk about the movie “Elf.”
Mini Topics:
Nick enjoys the television program “Dave” on the FX Network.
Gabe wants someone to paint his gold house.
Cover art courtesy of Taymazavalley on Flickr, who published this photo on Flickr using a Creative Commons liscence. Cool!
Episode Links
Abolish Policing – Critical Resistance — Policing is a social relationship made up of a set of practices that are empowered by the state to enforce law and social control through the use of force.
Abolish the police: What does it really mean? - Vox — “I’m sorry that the fight for justice and inequality could not be more convenient for political timetables, but it isn’t.”
Download CR's Abolitionist Tooklit — Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex; edited by the CR10 Publishing Collective, 2008.
First Published: July 21, 2020
Total Length: 55:15
Season 1