The following is a selection of remarks Shaka prepared for the May 10, 2025 People’s Agenda in Chicago, IL.
Abolition
People speak about prison abolition and i ask, “what does that look like and are We able to articulate such to the people where they would be willing to support such?” The same people who are fearful and fed up with krime and reactionary violence within Our communities?
Reform
In a capitalist society, what does prison reform really look like? In a capitalist society infested with the disease of racism and white supremacy, prisons are used as a form of social control and genocide. A form of ethnic cleansing, as they seek to control a demographic and population deemed a security threat.
Revolution
Anything short of the removal of the entire system is equivalent to putting a band-aid upon a major trauma wound. Prison reform has to be used as a tool, as a means to educate and mobilize people as We strip away the legitimacy of the state and expose all of its hypocritical truths to the world.