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The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.
Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.
The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.
Derecka Purnell discusses her new book Becoming Abolitionists, how she came to join the movement against policing and prisons, and what a just world looks like.
Studying the social world requires more than deference to data—no matter the prestige or sophistication of the tools with which they are parsed.
Detroit police killed hundreds of unarmed Blacks in response to the civil rights movement.
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