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The Road to Abolition
Exploring abolition — both in imagination and in practice — and the movement toward a more liberated future.
Radical Mothering for Abolitionist Futures Post-COVID-19
This system no longer serves us. It has never served us. It must fall.
Sex Workers Have Never Counted on Cops. Let’s Learn From Their Safety Tactics.
Sex workers have kept each other safe outside the purview of the state for decades, and probably centuries.
On Juneteenth, Let’s Commit to Learning How to Abolish Oppressive Institutions
To avoid diluting the idea of abolition, we must understand and adopt its Black radical and anti-capitalist principles.
911 Services That Dispatch Mental Health Counselors, Not Cops, Gain Traction
Austin’s Expanded Mobile Crisis Outreach Team is gaining interest but isn't a panacea for ableist police violence.
The GOP’s Police Reforms Won’t Do It. We Need to Defund the Police.
The GOP police reform bill seems more concerned with stopping the protests than stopping the abuses that sparked them.
Police Departments Attempt a Charm Offensive Amid Uprisings
Kneeling in “solidarity” with protesters is another attempt by police to gaslight people’s lived experience of policing.
Defunding the Police Is Not the End Goal. It’s the First Step.
Abolition is not just a divestment from policing, but the creation and resourcing of fundamentally different priorities.
Minneapolis Organizers Are Already Building the Tools for Safety Without Police
Minneapolis is creating a police-free future in real time.
Angela Davis on Movement Building, “Defund the Police” and Where We Go From Here
Public opinion has dramatically shifted on policing and systemic racism.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad Discusses the Significance of Calls to Defund the Police
"We have run out of options in terms of reform, in terms of thinking about what the police can do for themselves.”