Holiday-themed mutual aid efforts are popping up in cities and towns all across the United States.
The Road to Abolition
Amid this galvanizing moment of uprisings and calls to defund the police, Truthout has gathered together some of our most important work on the abolition of policing and prisons. For a decade, we’ve been documenting this work and the ideas behind it. In this feature, we’ve gathered together some recent and past pieces that can help us to envision abolition — both the imagination and the practice of it — and move together toward a more liberated future.
The ShotSpotter system manufactures urgency for aggressive police deployments.
Hiring a diverse police force may change what cops look like, but it doesn’t change what policing means and does.
Alternatives to policing are already being built in Minneapolis.
A ballot question that would fold police into a public safety department has defined the race for mayor.
Last year’s uprisings have created fresh starting places for campus-based abolitionist organizing.
If the system is functioning as it is designed to, then “reform” will almost always find ways to reinforce the norm.
A “closure” sometimes means the use of prisons as training sites that perpetuate oppression elsewhere.
This Black August, incarcerated organizers are calling on supporters to step up in the spirit of abolition.
While conservatives promote more state violence, religious people of different faiths are doing radical liberatory work.