Abolition of police and prisons
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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Both links dead.
Works for me.
The link in the post title (https://chuffed.org/project/dpk4nvzkr4emIf) returns "page not found" for me. The link in the YouTube video's text block (https://chuffed.org/project/dpk4nvzkr4em) works.
About the guy being tried - my personal opinion is that his goal was not to expose war crimes. He caused the war crimes investigation by a lucky accident. I hope he gets away with a mild sentence. For those who don't watch videos without absolute need:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McBride_(whistleblower)
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/what-i-ve-done-makes-sense-to-me-the-complicated-colourful-life-of-david-mcbride-20190621-p5204h.html
Short summary: he was accused of leaking the documents. He pleaded guilty and will be sentenced in the coming May. Interestingly, he leaked the documents because he was dissatisfied with the excessive investigation of soldiers while journalists who examined his materials arrived at the conclusion that soldiers were likely committing war crimes and needed far more investigation. From Wikipedia:
As for the war crimes (journalistic account)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Files_(Australia)
As for the investigation of journalists (not war crimes)...
(I guess they understood that they would piss off the public with their witch-hunt against journalists. That left the leaker himself.)
As for the investigation of war crimes (military account)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brereton_Report
...as for the results...
Ah, I thought they meant the youtube link from lemmy, not the donation link.
If your sources are correct, then that is rather unfortunate. I would personally still support his trial, if only in the hopes that it would create legal precedent to protect whistleblowers in the future.