From the Turtle Island-wide Cops Off Campus Coalition Website
Abolition Spring 2022: (Re)Building Community
This year’s Abolition Spring continues and expands the work of Abolition May 2021. Abolition Spring is a series of actions on campuses across Turtle Island to demand the removal of ALL police and a real investment in the communities universities sit within.
Historically and in the present, campus police departments have brutalized students and surveilled and assaulted activists while enforcing racialized campus borders. Colleges and universities, both public and private, have also played a violent and continuous role in global U.S. policing projects. You can learn more about the Cops Off Campus campaign by reading our statement of solidarity or visiting our comrades’ linktree. Despite what administrators tell us, students/staff/faculty know that a campus is not a bubble, but a constellation of relationships: universities employ us, universities criminalize and condemn people whose very lives conflict with their real estate investments, and universities are founded on settler colonialism in Turtle Island and fund imperial violence across the globe.
This year’s Abolition Spring continues and expands the work of Abolition May 2021. Abolition Spring is a series of actions on campuses across Turtle Island to demand the removal of ALL police and a real investment in the communities universities sit within.
Historically and in the present, campus police departments have brutalized students and surveilled and assaulted activists while enforcing racialized campus borders. Colleges and universities, both public and private, have also played a violent and continuous role in global U.S. policing projects. You can learn more about the Cops Off Campus campaign by reading our statement of solidarity or visiting our comrades’ linktree. Despite what administrators tell us, students/staff/faculty know that a campus is not a bubble, but a constellation of relationships: universities employ us, universities criminalize and condemn people whose very lives conflict with their real estate investments, and universities are founded on settler colonialism in Turtle Island and fund imperial violence across the globe.