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Event details of Abolition Ecology: Police, Violence, Ecology
Date
15 February 2023

The beginning of 2023 has been marked by a series of environmental show-downs between state-corporate powers and activists. The response has demonstrated the escalation of repression and force against activists across Europe and the US. Key ruptures, such as Lützerath, Atlanta's 'Cop City', and occupations of infrastructure and buildings in the Netherlands such as the Binnengasthuis in the UvA, and occupations at Erasmus Rotterdam, and A12, seem to be changing both public sentiment and institutional policy.

However, the actions of the police have been ever-more aggressive. This discussion brings together activists and scholars to discuss the prospects for an abolitionist response to police repression, and to interrogate the historical and contemporary entanglements between state power and environmental harm.

The Abolition Democracies project will be joined by Harriët Bergman, an activist and scholar at the University of Antwerp working on issues of climate justice, anger, and de-colonial thought, Andrea Brock, an activist and scholar whose work focuses on policing, extractivism, and violence, and activists from Lützerath who have been part of the struggle against a new coal mining. The panel will be moderated by Oscar Talbot, a PhD candidate from the Abolition Democracies project at the UvA.

We hope that you will join us for an open and interactive discussion.