WITH HODA KATEBI
Hoda shares what safety means to her, how she seeks safety and protection from threats of violence without calling the police, and how she builds relationships in her communities as a daily abolitionist practice.
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WITH ZUHDI MASRI & NAHID SOLTANZADEH
This piece is a combination of our interview with Zuhdi Masri (a non-Black Palestinian store-owner of Yeatman Market in St. Louis, MO) and Nahid Soltanzadeh’s (Digital Organizer at MPower Change) reflections on the interview. Zuhdi tells us about how his store came to be a peace corner in the neighborhood, how they bring the community members and religious leaders together to work for the neighborhood’s prosperity, and how all of this is based on a reciprocal relationship of love and respect between him and the Black community that welcomed him as a non-Black Muslim immigrant decades ago.
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BY SAQIB BHATTI and REEMA AHMAD
While it’s important for us to show up as allies in movement spaces and support Black-led organizing, that alone is not enough. We also have a responsibility to have conversations with our families about police abolition, and yes, this means directly confronting anti-Blackness in our own communities.
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A CONVERSATION WITH SIJAL & ABDERHIM NASRALLA and MUNIRA, SAMINA, & ABBASI LOKHANDWALA
As members of the Crescendo project creating this digitial zine, we thought it would be “cute” to have a short conversation with our Muslim families on police violence and abolition—and make it public for #PolicingIsHaram. Munira and Sijal, for some reason, agreed to participate.
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BY CRESCENDO
The problem of policing isn’t limited to the police departments. It’s a system intertwined with so many public and private institutions, and many aspects of our social lives. In this easy-to-digest PDF, Crescendo breaks down the ways in which big tech companies like Amazon, Google, and and participate in and contribute to the surveillance and policing of Black and brown people’s lives.
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