In this episode, we speak with organizer, writer, and researcher Jasson Perez about the defund movement, abolition, and organizing in Chicago against multiple forms of oppression toward its population. --- Work by Jasson Perez "Lori Lightfoot is wrong. ‘We’ didn’t fail Adam Toledo.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/20/lori-lightfoot-is-wrong-we-didnt-fail-adam-toledo/ "The quest for justice for Adam Toledo requires that Lightfoot resign" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/chicago-lightfoot-adam-toledo/ "Don't Blame Defund" https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/dont-blame-defund "Snatching Victory" https://spectrejournal.com/snatching-victory/ "The Left's 'Theoretical' Problem" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gWiFjrjddUNcCHRiz0UvgW84zcRg17o_/view?usp=sharing Additional Readings & Resources: Joy James - “The Architects of Abolitionism” (talk) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9rvRsWKDx0 “Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html Mariame Kaba - We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice https://www.akpress.org/we-do-this-til-we-free-us.html Alex Vitale - The End of Policing (note: the e-book version here is still free!) https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing Angela Davis - Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture https://www.akpress.org/abolitiondemocracy.html Angela Davis’s Abolition Democracy Pt 1 - #Reading Revolution Left POCket Project Podcast https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/29-angela-daviss-abolition-democracy-reading-revolution-left-pocket-project-podcast Angela Davis’s Abolition Democracy Pt 2 - #Reading Revolution Left POCket Project Podcast https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/30-angela-daviss-abolition-democracy-pt-2-reading-revolution-left-pocket-project-podcast --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc