Abolition in Practice
abolitionpractice.bsky.social
Abolition in Practice
@abolitionpractice.bsky.social
A radical reading & discussion group centered on police abolition, anti-imperialism, and antifascism, meeting in so-called Minneapolis

NEXT MEETING: December 5th, 2025 at 7:00pm

https://linktr.ee/abolitioninpractice
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Reintroducing Abolition in Practice, a discussion group meeting in-person (masks required) and virtually in so-called Minneapolis.

AIP is open to the general public; no prior knowledge is needed. We especially welcome beginners, as well as queer, BIPOC, & disabled folks.

linktr.ee/abolitioninp...
AIP's next meeting on Friday, December 5 at 7:00 PM is about the NPIC and how it operates within Empire’s broader system of control.

📖 Optional reading is the 2015 zine, “What’s the Non-Profit Industrial Complex and why should I care?”

🔗 Reading and printable versions in the Linktree in our bio.
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 AM
AIP’s next meeting this Friday, November 21st at 7:00 PM is about pod mapping! We’ll discuss what pod maps are, how to create them, and how we can use these tools to strengthen our relationships and develop community care. This will be a workshop-style meeting.

🔗 Link in bio for the article
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
** UPDATE ** AIP's next meeting on Friday, November 7th at 7:00 PM will be **VIRTUAL** due to cold!

We’ll post the Jitsi link in our Signal loop. Please message us for the Jitsi link or to join our public Signal loop.
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The topic of AIP's next meeting on Friday, November 7th is the Congolese fight for their own wealth. Based on the text by the same name, we’ll discuss how the DRC’s wealth and natural resources have been exploited and the Congolese fight for sovereignty.

🔗 Link in bio for the article
October 30, 2025 at 1:04 AM
For our next meeting on Friday, October 17th, we’ll discus lessons from the revolutionary Assata Shakur and Black antifascism.

What can we learn from Assata's relationship with internationalism & the Black diaspora? How has Black antifascism challenged power globally?

🔗 Link in bio for resources
October 14, 2025 at 4:17 AM
During our next meeting on Friday, October 3rd, we’ll discuss care austerity, how the institution of the family reproduces capitalist, patriarchal, and racist hierarchies, and how the family abolitionist movement envisions a better world.

🔗 Optional resources are in the link in bio.
September 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Our meeting tomorrow at 7:00 PM on apathy, fascism and hope as a discipline will be VIRTUAL due to a poor weather forecast. Please DM for the meeting link and/or to join the signal group.
September 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
During our next meeting on Friday, September 19th, we’ll discuss how life under empire can push us towards overwhelm, inaction, and individualism, and how we can intentionally resist that pressure by cultivating hope.

🔗 Optional resources are in the link in bio.
September 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
At AIP's next meeting this Friday, Sep 5th, we’ll discuss labor uprisings & capitalist backlash, in honor of Labor Day. We’ll talk about the history of people power against state & employer brutality and the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters' Strikes & massacre.

🔗 Optional resources are in the link in bio
September 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
AIP's next meeting on August 15th is about Care in Crisis. How can we support people in their madness and navigate body-mind crises outside the many Industrial Complexes (prison, psychiatric, etc)?

This is Part 2 in our series on Psych Abolition.

🔗 Optional readings are in the link in bio
August 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
During our next meeting on Friday, August 1st, we'll discuss navigating harm in leftist spaces—part 1 in a series on conflict, harm, and abuse.

We'll talk about how harmful behavior occurs and impacts people in leftist spaces + basic ways to address harm safely, consensually, and effectively.
July 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This friday!

We are watching the weather & AQI and will announce by Thursday if we're meeting virtually instead 😷💕
There will be no meeting on July 4th. Our next meeting on July 18th is a 6-month retrospective discussion about the trump administration and Native sovereignty.

🔗 Optional resources will be in the link in bio by July 7th.

➕ New folks are welcome to join. Please DM for the Signal loop link.
July 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
There will be no meeting on July 4th. Our next meeting on July 18th is a 6-month retrospective discussion about the trump administration and Native sovereignty.

🔗 Optional resources will be in the link in bio by July 7th.

➕ New folks are welcome to join. Please DM for the Signal loop link.
July 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Our next group meeting on Friday, June 20th at 7:00 PM is about making personal decisions around protest & mobilization: roles, risk factors, threat modeling, safety plans, and so on.

🔗Optional resources are in our link in bio.

➕ New folks are welcome to join. Please DM for the Signal loop link.
June 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Our next meeting on June 6th will be on psych abolition. We’ll discuss the history of psychiatry, madness, and the pathologization of resistance and non-westernized existence.

See link in bio for optional readings.

Masks required. See you at 7pm 🔥

DM for the signal loop to stay up to date!
June 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
We're switching to virtual due to rain! Please DM us for the Jitsi link or to attend future meetings. See you there 💞
May 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Our next meeting will be this Friday, May 16th to discuss the Stop Cop City movement, the criminalization of protest, and militarization.

Optional readings are in our link in bio!

As always, masks are required, and we'll see you at 7:00 PM.
May 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Reintroducing Abolition in Practice, a discussion group meeting in-person (masks required) and virtually in so-called Minneapolis.

AIP is open to the general public; no prior knowledge is needed. We especially welcome beginners, as well as queer, BIPOC, & disabled folks.

linktr.ee/abolitioninp...
May 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM