
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
“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
“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
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
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.
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
By Danielle Sered Original article found here Click Below to Visit
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
By Maya Dukmasova Original article found here Until that moment on Fox News, Jessica Disu hadn’t considered herself a police abolitionist. But on July 11,
By Mychal Denzel Smith Original article found here A few weeks ago, there was a shooting at my apartment building. A total of five shots were
By Mariame Kaba Original article found here | Photography by @loveandstrugglephotos I read today that President Obama has offered some measures for ‘reforming’ the police. Here is a
by Project NIA
by International Festival of Arts & Ideas
by Daily Kos Liberation League and Minneapolis-based organizers from Reclaim the Block
Maria and Julio talk about police and prison abolition with Charlene Carruthers, author and founding member of Black Youth Project 100, and Ejeris Dixon, director of Vision Change Win. They imagine a world without police, dive into community safety, and get real about what calls for defunding the police mean.
Recent calls to defund police and abolish prisons have raised the question: But what about rapists? In part one of two episodes exploring that question, prison abolitionist Maya Schenwar presents the case for looking outside the criminal justice system for safety and connects the dots between abolition and feminism.
by Centre for Ethics
by Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration (MUAVI) and Love & Protect
by Haymarket Books
by Elliott Fukui
by BuzzFeedVideo
Rebel Steps
By Haymarket Books
by Haymarket Books
By | Barnard Center for Research on Women
By | Osyris Antham, Mariame Kaba, Joshua Dubler & Victoria Law
by | Maya Schenwar | TEDx Baltimore
by | Ruth Wilson Gilmore
By | The Lit Review
By | Rustbelt Abolition Radio
By | Two Sides of Justice
By | Dean Spade | 94.1 KPFA
By | Justice In america | Josie Duffy Rice & Clint Smith with Mariame Kaba
By | Chris Hayes speaks with prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba about what it would take to dismantle the current “criminal punishment system.”
by | Law for Black Lives
by | The Next Question
by | Naomi Murakawa & Ruth Wilson
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By | A study guide of Mariame Kaba’s 2021 book ‘We Do This ‘Til We Free Us.’
Toolkit by | The Chicago Prison Industrial Complex Teaching Collective
Toolkit by | Advancement Project and Philadelphia Student Union
Toolkit by | Critical Resistance
Resource Guide by | Showing Up for Racial Justice, DC – Policing Team
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by Woods Ervin , Ricardo Levins Morales , Zola Richardson , and Jonathan Stegall
by Nnennaya Amuchie
By William C. Anderson
Abolitionist Policy Changes to Demand from Your City Officials
By | The Center for Popular Democracy
By | Critical Resistance
Compiled by| Young Womxn of Color for Reproductive Justice, A project of Advocates for Youth
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