Mutual Aid for Build Abolition 101 at CCSF

The "Build Abolition 101 at CCSF "cohort are fundraising for our speakers that are participating in our pilot class on abolition, with additional funds possibily used for other mutual aid efforts. This course is student-initiated, student-run, and community-centered. At the end of the semester, we will submit a proposal to have it be standardized as an official course, alongside pursuing how we build an abolitionist community and alternatives. Every contribution will help us towards this goal!

***Background on "Build Abolition 101 at CCSF"***

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Build Abolition 101 is a project developed by CCSF Collective, an abolitionist arts activism group, in accompliceship with the California Black Student Union Coalition. This course will be the starting point in building upon our shared vision of creating a sustainable base for tuition-free abolitionist education and practice at community colleges. The resources that CCSF provides (trauma prevention, healing, English as a second language, learning about our history, exploring our creative passions, and more) provide us with care that is invaluable to our communities. Through this course we wish to better understand how we can grow and protect the care that we rely on through these programs while eliminating the forces that cause us harm.

Build Abolition 101 will focus on exploring the ways in which we need to be present in our communities while abolishing capitalism, the settler-colonial state, and their armed protectors, the police. In terms of action steps, we intend to propose new curricula for abolitionist education and training at CCSF by the end of the Fall 2021 semester of this course. With the knowledge that community colleges train 80% of California police, we intend to pass statewide resolutions to remove police and police training from all community colleges through the Student Senate of California Community Colleges, and explore how abolition can be included in legislation for free higher education in 2022. Finally, we plan to standardize abolitionist practices at CCSF, and coordinate direct actions. The course will invite community members and organizations to discuss how we can materially achieve these goals while deepening our understanding of abolition and broadening the abolitionist community among our peers. Together with the California Black Student Union Coalition we intend to build these programs at CCSF as a blueprint for other community colleges.