Episode 9 of the Resist + Renew podcast, where we interview Ru from the London Campaign Against Police and State Violence (LCAPSV).
“Very often, the best way to realise what you're about is actually to do something, and not get caught up in the semantics of it all the time”
- Ru
Show notes, links
London Campaign Against Police and State Violence website and Twitter.

Some extra reading suggestions and links from Ru:

From Minneapolis to London: who polices the police? (Freedom News, May 2020)
Hackney Community Defence Association
Asian youth movements in Bradford (Working Class History podcast, September 2019)
REVOLUTION IS NOT A ONE-TIME EVENT (The White Review transcript from a June 2020 panel talk)
The Abolition of Carceral Forms (Base, June 2018)
As we didn't get to spend much time talking about NGOs, Incite's classic Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Mariame Kaba: Everything Worthwhile Is Done With Other People (Adi, autumn 2019)

And finally, the Mariama Kaba tweet that was mentioned:
Questions I regularly ask myself when I'm outraged about injustice:
1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?
Some groups mentioned in the interview were "GBC" (Green and Black Cross) and "ACAB" (Activist Court Aid Brigade).

Transcript
Ali: This is Resist + Renew.

Kat: A UK-based podcast about social movements.

Sami: What we're fighting for, why, and how it all happens.

Ali: The hosts of the show are:

Kat: Me Kat,

Sami: Me, Sami,

Ali: and me, Ali,

Sami: I'm recording this now baby

Ali: Shit it's a podcast.

*Laughter*

Sami: So, Welcome back, everybody, to the Resist Renew podcast. And today we are delighted to have Ru who organises against state violence and also occasionally writes about race, gender, and abolition. Ru is mainly here today wearing a hat of someone who organises with the London Campaign Against Police and State Violence will also be hopefully bringing in other organising experiences. And knowledge is as well. Ru, thanks for coming.

Ru: No worries. Thanks for having me.

Sami: So, to get into it, and could you talk a little bit about the context that you are organising in so I guess broadly, things around like anti violence, campaigning, that kind of stuff? And like, why that's an area that you focus on why you think it's a good area to organise around.

Ru: So I'm generally organising against state violence, and how that manifests in different spaces. So be that police violence, or immigration enforcement and certainly previously gender based violence and how that's exacerbated or accentuated in contact with this state?