As an Arab American whose community has endured chilling surveillance, I back the movement to defund the police.
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.
Opponents of the proposed women’s facility in Harlem affirm “there is no such thing as a feminist jail.”
Adams’s plan lowers education department funding by nearly $1 billion, while raising the NYPD budget to $11.1 billion.
We must demand systems of care and accountability that affirm and sustain life and our environment for the long term.
“This really is a time of action,” says Indigenous organizer Morning Star Gali.
Responding to pain by enforcing a criminal code through policing is ineffective in addressing community needs.
Kelly Hayes and Ruth Wilson Gilmore discuss organizing, extraction and time.
Biden’s budget calls for a 26 percent reduction in immigration detention, and ICE is reducing the use of some jails.
Family members observed the one-year anniversary of Wright’s killing on Monday as the push for change continues.
Letters are a source of hope. Policies banning physical mail are yet another attack on incarcerated people.