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June 9, 2020

Critical Resistance

"Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe"

The US shoots, kills and imprisons more people than other developed countries. Here's what the data says - CNN
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Study Guide – Disempower, Disarm, Disband

This looks like an interesting reading list. It is based mostly on Kristian Williams' Our Enemies in Blue which I've read before. No mention of the newer The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale.

Movement to defund police gains 'unprecedented' support across US | The Guardian
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Lessons from the History of Quarantine, from Plague to Influenza A - Volume 19, Number 2—February 2013 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC
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"Quarantine and other public health practices are effective and valuable ways to control communicable disease outbreaks and public anxiety, but these strategies have always been much debated, perceived as intrusive, and accompanied in every age and under all political regimes by an undercurrent of suspicion, distrust, and riots."