A dark money group that has received millions of dollars from George and Alex Soros’s nonprofit network is partnering on a new “Abolition School” that trains activists to eliminate police and prisons.

The Community Resource Hub for Safety and Accountability joined forces with left-wing groups to aid the Philadelphia-based W.E.B Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction to prepare organizers against what they say is a capitalist society created from “overlapping forces of colonial dispossession and genocide, racialized chattel slavery, and violent patriarchal domination, whose extractive brutality toward humanity and nature alike is quickly rendering our planet uninhabitable.”

The school aims to familiarize activists with how to dismantle “oppressive” institutions they believe extensively contribute to their struggles.

“Our students are aspiring revolutionaries and abolitionists of all ages and backgrounds who want to acquire the analytical tools and practical skills necessary to set political change into motion and sustain it through struggle,” the school’s website states. “But we seek above all to help build the leadership capacity of organic intellectuals, those most directly impacted by oppressive structures—policing, mass incarceration, environmental racism, and poverty—and those closest to the struggles to dismantle them.”

The “Abolition School” went public on social media in late May and held its first seminars from Aug. 18 to 20. During its inaugural training sessions, around 60 organizers from Philadelphia and other areas such as Atlanta – where the infamous “Cop City” protests took place – gathered for three days of discussions.

“Through participatory and collective study of political economy, the history of global resistance movements, and the theoretical and practical aspects of social change, we aim to teach a new generation of organic intellectuals not only how to understand the world, but more importantly, how to change it,” the school says of its mission.

Participants screened a film Mangrove School, which centers on “revolutionary guerrilla education in Guinea-Bissau” and followed it with a dialogue on revolutionary education, according to its website. The school committed mornings to “intensive conversations” about “what abolition and reconstruction mean for revolutionary struggles today” to establish future strategies.

Source: The Geller Report