Since the racial uprisings in 2020, Presbyterian Peace Fellowship has been in deep learning and re-organizing of our commitment to anti-racism practice. One fruit of this season has been the emergence of a group called Presbyterians for Abolition.
Together, we are committed to the following values: - Abolish, not reform.
- A fundamental belief of this group is that the prison industrial complex (policing, courts, jails and prisons, etc.) and its many tendrils in our society are beyond reform. They must be dismantled and we must seek to build new experiments in community safety and care.
- Follow the voices of people most directly impacted by the Prison Industrial Complex, including people currently and formerly incarcerated, Black queer femmes, and others who are at the intersection of multiple forms of oppression. They have the clearest vision of how to create a world where everyone has what they need to thrive.
- “Nothing about us without us.”
- We are committed to being accountable in our actions to organizers and leaders who have lived experience of incarceration and oppression at the hands of the prison industrial complex.
- Move resources out of predominantly white institutions like the PCUSA and into the hands of BIPOC leaders of the abolition movement.
Our first public event will be focused on that last commitment!
We will gather online for an hour of art and story as we lift up the voices of those most impacted by our criminal punishment system and dream of a world built instead on community care, grace and accountability, and systems that support and heal.
During the hour we’ll hear testimony from people who are on the frontlines. We invite you to give in solidarity with those who are directly supporting people who are incarcerated and who hold an abolitionist commitment. We will raise $10,000 to be split among three organizations. | 
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