Hell Is a Collective Condition with Dylan Rodriguez

Dylan Rodriguez is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national abolitionist organization that has shaped my thinking about the abolition of police and the prison industrial complex. As importantly, he's a rad, righteous, down-to-earth dude who is fine with people creating Elvis-and-Tupac-style conspiracy theories that he's still alive after he dies. This is a long episode because I just couldn't cut much (though there is an extra 20 minutes on Patreon)!

Content warning: copaganda, collectivity vs. individualism, Boyz II Men, academia, Geronimo Ji-Jaga, humility, rude baby.

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If you're looking for an introduction to abolition, I highly, highly recommend Critical Resistance's "Resource Guide for Teaching and Learning Abolition."

Also, check out Dylan's books:

White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide

Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons (edited by Colin Kaepernick)

Read the article he wrote in response to his invite to the UC Riverside Campus Safety Workgroup: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2021/06/a-public-response-to-ucr-chancellors.html

Check out the Cops Off Campus coalition: copsoffcampuscoalition.com

And, of course, Critical Resistance: criticalresistance.org

Follow Dylan on Twitter: @dylanrodriguez and Instagram: @dylanrodriguez73

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Transcript: This Is Your Afterlife on Podscribe

Music = Future: "Use Me" / James Blackshaw: "The Cloud of Unknowing" / Four Tet: "Two Thousand and Seventeen" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"