Abolition Cats

We are UC workers-- students and faculty and others--who are committed to ending policing on and off our campuses.

The police do not make us safe. They make us unsafe.

We follow INCITE!, a network of radical feminists of color organizing to end state violence and violence in our/their homes and communities, when they insist that “the ongoing violence and terror caused by police in our homes, on the street, in schools, on borders, abroad, and in hidden places like police cars, jails, prisons, and detention centers has to end.”

In place of policing and prisons, we envision, alongside INCITE!, a society in which “safety and security will not be premised on violence or the threat of violence,” but “will be based on a collective commitment to guaranteeing the survival and care of all people.”

We follow abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore; we believe that “abolition is about presence, not absence. It’s about building life-affirming institutions.”

We are committed to creating the world we want to inhabit, on campus and off of it.

Here, you will find some of our thoughts, workshops, and collaborations--our efforts to build life-affirming institutions that secure a collective commitment to the care and survival of human and nonhuman lifeworlds.