Abolition & COVID-19 w/ Nicolás Cruz, Mohamed Shehk, Emmy Rakete, Ruth Wilson Gilmore

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The Red Nation

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Organizing abolition amidst a pandemic and a moment of uprising.

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0:00.0	And the I'm going to Good evening everybody. Thank you for joining us for tonight's Friday Night Forum.
0:36.7	Really excited to have you with us. This is the last one for the month of May and our topic as I'm sure you know this evening is abolition and COVID-19.
0:49.0	To get us started this evening, we will have Nicholas Cruz from the Red Nation.
0:55.0	Nicholas, you want to get started?
0:57.0	Yeah, thanks, Rachel.
1:00.0	Hi, everybody.
1:01.0	Welcome to our last Friday night forum at least for the time being.
1:06.0	As I just said today we're going to be talking about abolition.
1:09.0	Friday night forums are a partnership between the Arab Resource Organizing Center, A-Roc, and the Center for
1:15.9	Public Education and the Red Nation. They provide an anti-imperless perspective and lesson on
1:21.0	organizing around the world.
1:22.6	My name is Nicholas Cruz, and I'm a member of the Red Nation
1:24.7	based here in Oakland, California.
1:27.3	I want to start out by acknowledging that there have been,
1:32.4	there's been a lot of, you know know a lot going on in social media and with
1:35.6	uprisings around the country and with the recent killings of multiple black
1:38.8	people by police this topic takes on a renewed urgency, right?
1:42.8	And hopefully that's kind of the energy
1:45.0	that's driving you to be here today.
1:46.8	I mean, we appreciate you being here in this time.
1:49.7	In this space tonight, we wanted
1:50.6	to hold the memories of George Floyd, Brianna Taylor, Tony McDade,
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