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We Need Collective Healing, Not Commodified “Self-Care”
“What is our freedom if we don't take care of each other?” asks Erica Woodland, co-author of “Healing Justice Lineages.”
Good Analysis Is Not Enough: Jen Angel and Liberation Movement Organizing
We honor Angel by studying the life she lived and the lessons she gave us to build liberatory power.
Federal Grant Is Pushing Social Work Students Into Systems That Police Families
The Title IV-E program uses social work students’ economic precarity to nudge them into the family policing workforce.
Portland Took Cops Out of Schools in 2020. Now It May Put Them Back.
Changing public perceptions that equate policing with safety is challenging, especially in the wake of school shootings.
From Palestine to US Prisons, Radical Love Can Guide Our Fight for Liberation
The Palestinian Feminist Collective is working to decolonize Valentine’s Day this year. Here’s how.
Police-Perpetrated Killings Are Public Executions — We Must Abolish Them
The normalization of extrajudicial killings is a hallmark of fascism where police assume the powers of judge and jury.
As Mourners Gather for Tyre Nichols’s Funeral, Calls Grow for Abolition
Abolitionist Andrea Ritchie and Howard University Professor Justin Hansford discuss the need for structural change.
A Victory for Abolitionists: ICE-Run Immigration Prison Shuts Down Today
It took nearly a decade of exposing the patterns of abuse and neglect at the facility in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Let’s Abolish Systems That Criminalize and Punish Survivors of Abuse
U.S. courts often reject domestic and sexual violence as legitimate justifications for self-defense.
MLK’s Vision Lives On in Atlanta’s Fight Against New Police Training Facility
Plans for the “Cop City” in the heart of a working-class Black community include a mock city to practice urban warfare.