Op-Ed | Culture & Media 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. By Amira Jarmakani , Nadine Naber , Monica Ramsy , Truthout February 13, 2023 Truthout
Op-Ed | Politics & Elections Biden Uses State of the Union to Double Down on Failed Idea of Police Reforms The sorts of liberal reforms promoted by Biden won’t prevent police from killing anyone. By Austin C. McCoy , Truthout February 8, 2023 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing 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. By William C. Anderson , Prism February 6, 2023 Truthout
News Analysis | Prisons & Policing “Broken Windows Policing” Gave Rise to SCORPION Unit That Killed Tyre Nichols Broken windows policing reflects racialized assumptions about what is disorder and which communities are disorderly. By Marjorie Cohn , Truthout February 4, 2023 Truthout
Interview | Prisons & Policing Atlanta’s “Cop City” Moves Forward as 19 People Face Domestic Terrorism Charges The flimsy charges appear to be part of a strategy to undermine the protest movement, says reporter Alleen Brown. By Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh , DemocracyNow! February 2, 2023 Truthout
Interview | Prisons & Policing 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. By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! February 1, 2023 Truthout
News | Environment & Health National Guard Wants to Expand Its Training Site to Twice the Size of Chicago The proposed expansion would allow for increased use and testing of new technologies, particularly electronic warfare. By Joe Garofalo , LeftVoice January 25, 2023 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing 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. By Kwaneta Harris & Leigh Goodmark , Truthout January 20, 2023 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing Biden’s Safer America Plan Will Harm Already Hyper-Policed Communities A safer plan for America would invest in its people by promoting alternative deterrents to violence. By Kamau Butcher , Truthout January 18, 2023 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing Record Police Killings in 2022 Show Need to Continue Organizing for Abolition Building power and transformation is about encouraging the grassroots while confronting a resilient carceral state. By Austin C. McCoy , Truthout January 15, 2023 Truthout