Truthout
Abolition
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Standing Up for Our Communities: Why We Need a Police-Free Future
How to move toward the world we want to live in — free of policing — even in the face of violence and fear mongering.
Fighting Mass Incarceration Under Trump: New Strategies, New Alliances
We cannot hope for a shift toward prison reform under the self-declared “law-and-order” president-elect.
Our Dreams for Bresha Meadows Begin With Freedom
Help bring her home. Help bring all our people home. #FreeBresha
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No Abolition Without Demilitarization: Black and Muslim Solidarity for Ending Police Worldwide
Calling for an end to state terror is not terrorism.
A Growing Asian-American Movement Calls for Prison Abolition
The movement for abolition has meant renegotiating Asian Americans' relation to the prison industrial complex.
We Only Move Forward When We Demand the Impossible: An Interview With Bill Ayers
History shows that progress only happens when we refuse to limit ourselves to the art of the possible, says Bill Ayers.
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There Oughta Be a Law… Should Prison Really Be the US Way?
We are living in a country where the solution to just about any social problem is to create a law against it, and then punish those who break it.
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How Prisoners Are Organizing a Nationwide Strike From Behind Bars
The Free Alabama Movement issued a call to action, with an estimated 40 prisons in 24 states expected to participate.
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Why We Dream About a World Without Police
I, like other authors in this book, take the position that the existence of the police force in this country is unnecessary.
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The Punishment Paradigm: Two New Books Take on Prison, Race and History
Two works by young scholars of color bring fresh perspectives to the history of mass incarceration and the rise of debtors' prisons.