Leon Laidlaw - Winnipeg Police Cause Harm

On the WPS’ decision to not search the landfill: An abolitionist call for justice and Indigenous self-determination

The WPS’ decision to not search for the bodies of these women is a deliberate choice – one that exemplifies the institutional lack of protection and the failure to respond to violence against Indigenous women by police institutions across Canada.

9 min read - Published: a year ago

Prisoners’ Justice Day in Winnipeg: Fostering Life Through Abolition

PJD proves to not only be an occasion to demand better and humane living conditions for those surviving incarceration, but also to call out the inhumanity of prisons themselves.

8 min read - Published: 2 years ago

A Local History of Queer Abolitionist Organizing and a Call for Police Abolition

I recently visited the Gay and Lesbian Archives [https://libguides.lib.umanitoba.ca/c.php?g=703093] for the first time, held at the Elizabeth Dafoe Library at the Univers

10 min read - Published: 2 years ago