To create a world without prisons and policing, we must first push past the ceiling oppression puts on our imagination.
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.
To fight white supremacist violence, we must abolish the systems that perpetuate it, like the prison-industrial complex.
The moves come as new Travis County DA José Garza rolls out bail reform and diversion policies.
Over the past six months, organizers across the country have won significant victories in campaigns to defund police.
Organizers plan to continue targeting city and state budgets to demand divestment from prisons and policing.
One sheriff’s lieutenant described breaking into the Capitol as part of the violent mob as “the best day of my life.”
On the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, let’s commit to building a world free of policing.
The strike at the University of Michigan highlighted the role of policing in upholding racial capitalism on campus.
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.”