The strike at the University of Michigan highlighted the role of policing in upholding racial capitalism on campus.
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.
Morton Schapiro has failed to recognize the students’ demand for a campus safety that is achieved through abolition.
“We must move for what we want, not for what we think the system can produce, because the system is the problem.”
Abolishing the systems and institutions that propagate white supremacy is an important step toward decolonization.
In the fight for abolition, losing an immediate demand should not deter us from the long-term struggle.
The ongoing protests against police violence have made overt the long historical ties between cops and white militias.
Since September 2, demonstrators have been calling for the defunding and disbanding of the Rochester Police Department.
Focusing on costs of police settlements won’t end brutality but could deprive victims of the reparations they deserve.
It’s time for Muslim communities to re-evaluate their connection to law enforcement.
Prosecutors are part of the prison-industrial complex, which has no place in a community-led quest for reparations.