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This Will Be an Uncomfortable but Necessary Read
An Informative Open Letter and Call to Action to "Vancouver" Organizers

“No movement can survive unless it is constantly growing and changing with the times. If it isn’t growing, if it’s stagnant, and without the support of the people, no movement for liberation can exist, no matter how correct its analysis of the situation is. . .”
Assata Shakur

We are a group of organizers, artists, disabled and immunocompromised activists, and community members writing to express our grief and solidarity in proactively requesting increased COVID protections in our community in the spirit of harm reduction, disability justice, and fighting genocide and mass deaths on all lands.

Madness, Disability, and Abolition
A Call for Movement Solidarity + Healing in Autonomous Communities

In 2020, police abolition erupted into popular discourse following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and others. With one out of four U.S. prison inmates testing positive for COVID-19 in some facilities, calls for prison abolition have also attained a new prominence. We want to abolish these systems of violence – but what does that mean for the psych ward?

This essay explores responses to that question in two parts. Part one focuses on the intersections between abolition, madness and disability. Part two focuses on ways we can continue the fight for mad and disabled communities while creating an abolitionist future.