Abortion doula and abolitionist Ash Williams discusses the links between gender policing and the prison system
Revived plans to construct a federal prison in Kentucky lay bare the harms of the prison-industrial complex on incarcerated people, the environment, and surrounding communities
Prisons are designed to be punitive, but intentional design can create spaces that resist systemic biases and the carceral impulse to punish
As domestic terrorism laws are wielded against climate activists, we must resist the urge to turn to the carceral state for protection
Mothers in Chicago are partnering with the UN to pressure Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx to pardon all survivors of police torture and wrongful convictions
Without a deeper understanding of liberatory politics, people become susceptible to manipulative co-opting of progressive slogans in support of the status quo
It is our responsibility to resist industry-typical copaganda and instead produce reporting that focuses on transformative and reparative practices and informs readers how to keep their communities whole, safe, and accountable
As advocates demand that news media reckon with how they have furthered anti-Black violence, entertainment media can’t ignore its guilt in doing the same
After eight years of organizing, advocates have succeeded in emptying and closing the notorious ICE facility. Now, they’re hoping to repurpose the space to serve the community
Abolishing the police requires recognizing police killings as a fascistic tool and breaking cycles of fear and complacency
The UC strike was the largest higher-education strike in U.S. history, but it was an “incomplete act of resistance”
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