Abolition
Abolition
“Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) abolition is a political vision with the goal of eliminating imprisonment, policing, and surveillance and creating lasting alternatives to punishment and imprisonment. Abolition isn’t just about getting rid of buildings full of cages. It’s also about undoing the society we live in because the PIC both feeds on and maintains oppression and inequalities through punishment, violence, and controls millions of people. Because the PIC is not an isolated system, abolition is a broad strategy. An abolitionist vision means that we must build models today that can represent how we want to live in the future. It means developing practical strategies for taking small steps that move us toward making our dreams real and that lead us all to believe that things really could be different. It means living this vision in our daily lives.Abolition is both a practical organizing tool and a long-term goal.” – Critical Resistance
Articles
The Case for Abolition
Original article found on themarshallproject.org The Case for Abolition “We have grown weary of worn-out debates over the feasibility of a world without prisons.” 06.19.2019 Ruth
The New Abolitionists
Original article found Playboy.com The New Abolitionists In the wake of Ava DuVernay’s ‘When They See Us,’ we imagine what prison abolition could look like
How #NoCopAcademy shook the machine
Original article found on Chicago Reader How #NoCopAcademy shook the machine The coalition lost the vote but changed the narrative on police spending. By Benji
Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind
Original article found on NYTimes Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind By Rachel Kushner April 17, 2019 There’s an anecdote that
Abolitionist Practices, Reformist Moments
By Rachel Herzing, Erica R. Meiners, and Nuri Nusrat Original article found on UppingtheAnti.org Photography by @loveandstrugglephotos Despite campaign promises to restore “law and
TAKING FREEDOM: RECLAIMING OUR LINEAGE:
By Che Gossett, Reina Gossett & A.J. Lewis Original article found here Featured Photography by Ted Eytan/Flickr Taking Freedom: Reclaiming Our Lineage: Organized Queer, Gender-Non-Conforming, and
Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex | Women of Color against Violence and Critical Resistance.
By Critical Resistance/INCITE! Original article found here
Freedom to Thrive: Reimagining Safety & Security in Our Communities
By The Center for Popular Democracy Original article found here Over the last 30 years, at both the national and local levels, governments have dramatically increased
Brick by Brick: Creating a World Without Prisons
By Layne Mullet Original article found here This essay appears in the current issue of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, N. 28, on the topic of Justice.
The Fictions and Futures of Transformative Justice
By WALIDAH IMARISHA, ALEXIS GUMBS, LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA, ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN and MIA MINGUS Original article found here OCTAVIA’S Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice
Accounting for Violence: How to Increase Safety and Break Our Failed Reliance on Mass Incarceration
By Danielle Sered Original article found here Click Below to Visit
We Don’t Just Need Nicer Cops. We Need Fewer Cops.
By Alex S. Vitale Original article found here Protests against the recent police killings of unarmed black men and boys—Eric Garner and Akai Gurley in New
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