Police Abolition

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

It's been a week. Amid uprisings and violent police suppression, we turn to Mariame Kaba. Mariame is a longtime police and prison abolitionist, educator, and organizer who has been doing the day-in, day-out work of activism and opposing state-sponsored violence since the early 2000s.

If you've been wondering: what's police abolition? what's prison abolition? why not simply reform or defund police departments? how do I commit myself to racial justice? what does a post-police future look like? is there room for hope?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long distance besties everywhere.
0:06.8	I'm Amina Tusso and I'm Anne Friedman.
0:10.0	Hi Anne Friedman.
0:11.8	Hello Amina Tusso.
0:14.1	What a week.
0:15.8	I know I was going to say something like how you holding up over there and just like didn't
0:21.3	didn't want to ask that question.
0:23.6	Yeah, I um I will only speak for myself.
0:27.0	I am very exhausted.
0:30.2	I am exhausted by coronavirus.
0:33.4	I am exhausted by just being surrounded by black death.
0:40.8	I am exhausted by the fact that it just seems like we are getting nowhere.
0:47.8	I'm exhausted by the fact that there's background noise in my tape.
0:50.6	So I'm going to do that again.
0:53.4	I mean, I also feel like there's a point at which it's like you know what?
0:57.4	Just deal with it.
0:58.4	Like a little background noise on the tape and the scope of like everything that else that's
1:03.2	happening right now.
1:04.2	It's like I think everyone who's listening is very accustomed at this point to the interrupted
1:09.9	audio and video experience.
1:11.9	Great.
1:12.9	In that case, please deal with the little bit of background noise in my in my quarantine
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