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
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THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE I SURVIVED TAUGHT ME THE IMPORTANCE OF PRISON ABOLITION
Original article found on here SO OFTEN, THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM RETRAUMATIZES VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE, FURTHER MAGNIFYING THE HARM INFLICTED. TW: This
SURVIVING RAPE AS A PRISON ABOLITIONIST
Original article found on here PEOPLE TRY TO POKE HOLES IN THE PRISON ABOLITION MOVEMENT BY ASKING “WHAT ABOUT RAPISTS, DO YOU WANT THEM JUST
Community Bail Funds as a Tool for Prison Abolition
Original article found on here Click here to read all posts in our Money Bail series, including the introductory post presenting an LPE perspective on pretrial detention and Part I of
What the Prison-Abolition Movement Wants
Original article found on Teen Vogue What the Prison-Abolition Movement Wants No Class is an op-ed column by writer and radical organizer Kim Kelly that connects
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
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