Parenting Toward Abolition
“We Grow the World Together” explores the complex relationship between parenting and abolition.
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Will California End Forced Prison Labor?
Incarcerated people in California and many other states can be compelled to work for near-zero wages. A ballot proposition could change that.
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Voters Behind Bars
Incarcerated Americans aren’t allowed to vote. Those with felonies also face barriers. Here’s what that means for democracy.
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Prevention, Not Prisons
Dortell Williams, who has spent more than 30 years in prison, reflects on the true causes of crime.
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Facing Life Without Parole Inside a California Prison
Recent reforms in prison communications have allowed Dortell Williams, serving a life sentence without parole in California, to share his experience face-to-face for the first time.
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Ijeoma Oluo Wants You to “Be a Revolution”
A new book by best-selling author Ijeoma Oluo offers powerful examples of how ordinary people are changing the world.
Practicing New Worlds with adrienne maree brown and Andrea Ritchie
In this exclusive conversation, two visionary abolitionist authors and reflect on the how the newest book in the Emergent Strategy series came to be.
Murmurations: Moving from Punishment to Accountability
How can we hold accountable systems that are designed only to understand punishment?
Becoming Abolitionist: A Lawyer’s Radical Vision
“The only way that we are going to get people to have a decent, equitable future is to completely re-envision this entire rubric that is suffocating and killing our people,” says lawyer Noelle Hanrahan.
Judging the Judges
How Los Angeles abolitionist organizers are taking on pretrial incarceration and judicial power through community resistance.
The Care(ful) Work of Abolishing Prisons
How to kick our national addiction to prisons.
Envisioning a New World Through Abolition Geography
“Imagining the impossible is what people have been doing in the struggle for liberation,” says academic and activist Ruthie Wilson Gilmore in a conversation about her latest book.
Abolishing the Nation’s Largest Jail System
L.A. County activists are working to replace violent jails with mental health facilities, and to reallocate funding from incarceration toward social services.
What Do We Do While Waiting to Realize Prison Abolition?
Attorney Sia Henry shares a wrenching personal experience highlighting the challenges of operating in world where prison abolition is not yet a reality.
Reimagining Safety and Liberation Without Police
We can work for safety and liberation by investing in community-based alternatives to policing, like mental health programs, public education, restorative justice practices, and economic justice.
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Murmurations: Realizing Our Abolitionist Dreams
Unlearning our punitive impulses will take slow, hard work, says adrienne maree brown. But it is possible.
Abolitionists and Environmentalists in Atlanta Band Together to “Stop Cop City”
“The people who are killing us can’t also be the people who are keeping us safe.”
A Handbook for Abolitionists
Patrisse Cullors’ new book offers guidance for personal, as well as systemic, change. Breaking the cycle of harm starts with us.
A New Podcast Aims to Shift the Narrative on Police Abolition by Centering Movement Voices
The podcast, produced by the Detroit Justice Center, highlights how organizers are engaged in the hard work of abolishing police and prisons, and offers a counter-narrative to mainstream media reports.
Abolition Through the Ages: Reform Versus Transformation, Then and Now
Just as slavery couldn’t be reformed and had to be ended, policing can’t be reformed and has to be abolished, say leaders of modern-day abolitionist movements.
An Independence Day Reflection
Nearly 160 years after Frederick Douglass first delivered his iconic address “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?,” his questions and challenges are as relevant as ever.
What Does Accountability Look Like Without Punishment?
It’s not easy, but it is possible.
Reckoning With Slavery Requires Access to Records of the Past
What a revolt’s archives tell us about who owns history.
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