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The Road to Abolition
Exploring abolition — both in imagination and in practice — and the movement toward a more liberated future.
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The Abolitionist Echoes of Ferguson: White Privilege as Moral Duty
What are the responsibilities of those enjoying white privilege in a white supremacist society? The abolitionists offer inspiration in the fight against racism and structural injustice.
Suffragettes No More – The Long Struggle for Women’s Equality
Honoring women's history in March each year is a bad joke as long as those who struggled for women's equality are called "suffragettes."
Prison Reform’s In Vogue and Other Strange Things…
What a strange moment we're in. Prison 'reform' is in vogue.
Angela Davis on Prison Abolition and the War on Drugs
Davis’s work around issues of gender, race, class and prisons has influenced social movements across generations.
Lifting the Veil of Mirage Democracy in the United States
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers trace the history and institutions of a not-so-robust US democracy.