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K\u00e6re kammerater, gl\u00e6delig 1. maj<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vi kommer fra Forum for F\u00e6ngselsafskaffelse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mange af os, der er her i dag har oplevet politiets og retssystemets magt p\u00e5 vores egne kroppe og vores kammeraters. M\u00e5ske is\u00e6r de sidste \u00e5r, hvor aktivister har gjort modstand mod det igangv\u00e6rende folkemord p\u00e5 pal\u00e6stinenserne som regeringen, og danske universiteter og virksomheder bidrager til. Modstanden er blevet m\u00f8dt med knipler, politihunde, arrestationer og indesp\u00e6rringer, med overv\u00e5gning og med sanktioner fra skoler og arbejdspladser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Men stigningen i politikontrol, overv\u00e5gning og straf rammer selvf\u00f8lgelig langtfra kun aktivister. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Straf er et v\u00e6rkt\u00f8j \u2013 en hammer \u2013 politikerne r\u00e6kker ud efter igen og igen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Men straf er ikke en hammer der reparerer noget som helst. Straf bryder ned. Liv, mennesker, f\u00e6llesskaber, familier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Og dem som politikerne allerhelst vil straffe, dem som bliver h\u00e5rdest ramt. Det er racegjorte personer, migranter og b\u00f8rn af migranter. Det er arbejdsl\u00f8se, arbejdere og arbejderb\u00f8rn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Siden regeringen tr\u00e5dte til i 2022 har de lovet os en ny stor straffereform. Straffene skal v\u00e6re h\u00e5rdere og l\u00e6ngere \u2013 og regeringen har selv sagt at det ikke er vigtigt om det virker. Det vigtige er at der bliver straffet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mens reformen lader vente p\u00e5 sig har regeringen k\u00f8rt p\u00e5 med planer for at udvide f\u00e6ngselssystemet og rekruttere f\u00e6ngselsvagter. For der sidder allerede for mange mennesker i f\u00e6ngsel til at systemet kan klare det.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Men vi vil ikke have flere fucking f\u00e6ngsler!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Samtidig kryber straffene ogs\u00e5 ud af f\u00e6ngslerne og ind i menneskers hverdagsliv p\u00e5 nye og indgribende m\u00e5der.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Det ser vi i den seneste i en uendelig r\u00e6kke af racistiske og paranoide tryghedspakker<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her skriver regeringen om utryghedskabende adf\u00e6rd og utryghedsskabende personer. De skriver om unge m\u00e6nd fra socialt udsatte boligomr\u00e5der, og om kvinder der f\u00f8ler sig utrygge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hvad der i virkeligheden er det utrygge st\u00e5r ikke rigtig klart. Men de skriver blandt andet om unge der \u201dH\u00e6nger ud p\u00e5 stationer og bytorve og chikanerer andre.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Og v\u00e6rkt\u00f8jerne, der skal forhindre det, er mere tv-overv\u00e5gning p\u00e5 stationer og boligomr\u00e5der, forh\u00f8jede b\u00f8der, forbud for nogle mod at opholde sig bestemte steder, forbud mod at komme i nattelivet, omvendte fodl\u00e6nker, og inds\u00e6ttelse af s\u00e5kaldte tryghedsvagter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hvor utrygt er det egentlig, at nogle st\u00e5r p\u00e5 et fortov og r\u00e5ber lidt h\u00f8jt? Hvem skaber det tryghed for, at nogle ikke m\u00e5 bev\u00e6ge sig frit og h\u00e6nge ud offentligt? I hvert fald ikke de unge drenge og m\u00e6nd, der hele tiden skal overveje, om deres “h\u00e6ngen ud” kan opfattes som utrygt af forbipasserende<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Og de vil kunne masseindhente data fra alle offentlige myndigheder. Det g\u00e6lder ogs\u00e5 dine sundhedsjournaler. Og det g\u00e6lder ogs\u00e5 hvis du er fuldst\u00e6ndig irrelevant for efterforskningen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Det betyder, at hver gang du taler med det offentlige, s\u00e5 taler du med politiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Al den her overv\u00e5gning skal g\u00f8re det nemmere at straffe. For tryghedens skyld, selvf\u00f8lgelig<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Den tryghed de taler om. Den er klam og snagende. Den er racistisk og voldelig. Det den passer p\u00e5 er staten og dens gr\u00e6nser, virksomhederne og retten til ejendom og kapital.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Derfor siger vi: Fuck jeres tryghed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00d8nsket om mere straf er ikke nyt, men lige nu spreder det sig med h\u00e6sbl\u00e6sende fart i samfundet. Vi ser det ikke kun i retssystemet, men ogs\u00e5 p\u00e5 skoler, universiteter og p\u00e5 arbejdspladser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vi skal blive ved med at k\u00e6mpe imod. Vi skal blive ved med at komme med alternativer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Og det er ikke kun i institutionerne, at den straffende logik trives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ogs\u00e5 os der er her i dag, antifascister og venstreradikale, straffer hinanden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selvom det ikke er det, de fleste af os tror p\u00e5. Den verden vi ser for os er en, hvor vi st\u00f8tter og beskytter hinanden, n\u00e5r nogle bliver skadet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Det er en verden, hvor vi skaber modstandsdygtige f\u00e6llesskaber, og for at g\u00f8re det, m\u00e5 vi \u00f8ve os i at v\u00e6re i de uundg\u00e5elige konflikter, der opst\u00e5r imellem mennesker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vi g\u00f8r det allerede. Vi har allerede redskaberne. Lad os blive ved med at \u00f8ve os i det. Lad os blive ved med at yde omsorg, vise tillid og solidaritet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vi har brug for hinanden. Vi har ikke brug for straf eller overv\u00e5gning. Det vi virkelig har brug for i kampen mod facismen, er hinanden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
K\u00e6mpe stort tak til jer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tak for at lytte med og gl\u00e6delig 1. maj.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Dear Comrades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are from the Forum for Prison Abolition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many of us here today have experienced the power of the police and the justice system on our own bodies and on our comrades\u2019. Perhaps especially in recent years, as activists have resisted the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, a genocide that the Government, Danish Universities, and companies contribute to. This resistance has been met with batons and police dogs, arrests and imprisonment, with surveillance, and sanctions from schools and workplaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the increase in policing, surveillance, and punishment does not, of course, only affect activists.
Punishment is a tool, a hammer, that politicians reach for again and again. But punishment is not a hammer that repairs anything. Punishment breaks down lives, people, communities, families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And those who politicians most eagerly want to punish, those who are hit the hardest, are racialized people, migrants, and children of migrants. They are the unemployed, workers, and working-class children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the government took office in 2022, they have promised us a major new penal reform. Punishments are to be harsher and longer, and the government has said themselves that it doesn\u2019t matter if it works. What matters is that people are punished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the reform is still pending, the government has pushed forward with plans to expand the prison system and recruit more prison guards. Because there are already too many people in prison for the system to cope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But we don\u2019t want any more fucking prisons!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the same time, punishment is creeping out of prisons and into people\u2019s everyday lives in new and invasive ways. We see this most recently in a seemingly endless series of racist and paranoid “safety packages.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here, the government talks about \u201cunsafe behavior\u201d and \u201cunsafe individuals.\u201d They talk about young men from socially disadvantaged housing areas, and about women who feel unsafe.
What is actually unsafe remains unclear. But they mention, for example, young people who \u201chang out at stations and town squares and harass others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the tools to prevent this include more CCTV surveillance at stations and in housing areas, increased fines, location bans, nightlife bans, reversed ankle monitors (that alert if you are not<\/strong> where you’re supposed to be), and the deployment of so-called \u201csafety guards.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n How unsafe is it really that some people are standing on a sidewalk talking loudly? Who does it create safety for, when others are not allowed to move freely and hang out in public? Certainly not the young boys and men who constantly have to consider whether their hanging out will be perceived as threatening by passersby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another bill would allow the intelligence service (PET) to mass-collect our internet data without a court order. All the information that is stored every time we click \u201caccept cookies\u201d, data that records where we\u2019ve been, what we\u2019ve liked, and what we\u2019ve bought. They also want to mass-collect data from all public authorities. That includes your medical records. Even if you are completely irrelevant to the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That means that every time you talk to a public authority, you are talking to the police. The kind of safety they\u2019re talking about is gross and invasive. It’s racist and violent. What it really protects is the state and its borders, corporations, and the right to property and capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s why we say: Fuck your safety!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The desire for more punishment is not new, but right now it is spreading at breakneck speed through society. We see it not only in the justice system but also in schools, universities, and workplaces. And it’s not only in institutions that the logic of punishment thrives. Even among us here today, anti-fascists and radical leftists, we punish each other. Even though that\u2019s not what most of us believe in. The world we envision is one where we support and protect each other when someone is harmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s a world where we build resilient communities, and to do that, we must practice being in the inevitable conflicts that arise between people. We are already doing that. We already have the tools. We need each other. We don\u2019t need punishment or surveillance. What we really need in the fight against fascism is each other<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (English below) K\u00e6re kammerater, gl\u00e6delig 1. maj Vi kommer fra Forum for F\u00e6ngselsafskaffelse. Mange af os, der er her i dag har oplevet politiets og retssystemets magt p\u00e5 vores egne kroppe og vores kammeraters. M\u00e5ske is\u00e6r de sidste \u00e5r, hvor aktivister har gjort modstand mod det igangv\u00e6rende folkemord p\u00e5 pal\u00e6stinenserne som regeringen, og danske universiteter og virksomheder […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abolition.nu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abolition.nu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abolition.nu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abolition.nu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abolition.nu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/abolition.nu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/abolition.nu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abolition.nu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abolition.nu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abolition.nu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
All of this surveillance is meant to make punishment easier. For safety\u2019s sake, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We must keep fighting back. We must continue to propose alternatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let\u2019s keep practicing. Let\u2019s continue to offer care, to show trust and solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n