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With time running out, jury nullification for civil disobedience is worth the risk.
Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.
Just as abolitionists fought the Fugitive Slave Act, those resisting the criminalization of reproductive health can employ jury nullification.
Draconian individual punishment distracts from systemic change and reinforces the cruelest and most racist system of incarceration on the planet.
Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.
Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.
King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.
The lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison by four American presidents underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.
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.
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