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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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Students Like Me Can Target School Boards to Get Police Out of Schools
Students can challenge injustices like school policing by organizing and making their voices heard at school boards.
![A photo of a 2021 San Rafael production of End of Isolation.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/07/14-San-Rafael-Production-2021-scaled-1-400x300.jpg)
A New Play Imagines the End of Isolation for All Incarcerated People
“The Box” shows the humanity of the people being subjected to solitary, says playwright Sarah Shourd.
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Grassroots Defense Committees Support Criminalized Survivors of Violence
The criminal legal system in the United States forces survivors to choose between their freedom and their lives.
![Activists march through the Lawndale neighborhood calling for the defunding of police on July 24, 2020, in Chicago, Illinois.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/07/2022_0701-defund-police-400x300.jpg)
Here’s Why Arab Americans Like Me Are Supporting Efforts to Defund the Police
As an Arab American whose community has endured chilling surveillance, I back the movement to defund the police.
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NYC Activists Push Back Against Proposed “Feminist” Women’s Jail in Harlem
Opponents of the proposed women's facility in Harlem affirm “there is no such thing as a feminist jail.”
![New York Mayor Eric Adams is joined by NYPD Deputy Chief Jason Savino, left, and NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig at a Brooklyn police facility on June 6, 2022, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0621-eric-adams-nypd-400x300.jpg)
Mayor Eric Adams Is Siphoning Funds From Public Schools to Fortify NYPD
Adams's plan lowers education department funding by nearly $1 billion, while raising the NYPD budget to $11.1 billion.
![Family members of George Floyd gather to mourn on the second anniversary of police killing of him in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/GettyImages-1240913583-400x300.jpg)
We Don’t Need More Evidence That Police Can’t Be Trusted. We Need Real Safety.
We must demand systems of care and accountability that affirm and sustain life and our environment for the long term.
![Activists march for missing and murdered Indigenous women at the Women's March California 2019 on January 19, 2019, in Los Angeles, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/04/2022_0428-indigenous-march-400x300.jpg)
Indigenous Abolitionists Are Organizing for Healing and Survival
“This really is a time of action,” says Indigenous organizer Morning Star Gali.
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Beyond the “Ghost Gun” Ban, We Need Local Leaders to Fund Violence Prevention
Responding to pain by enforcing a criminal code through policing is ineffective in addressing community needs.
![The sun shines through high security fencing surrounding Norwich Prison on August 25, 2005, in Norwich, England.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/04/2022_0414-prison-fence-400x300.jpg)
Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Abolition, the Climate Crisis and What Must Be Done
Kelly Hayes and Ruth Wilson Gilmore discuss organizing, extraction and time.