Tag: Crime and Prison

The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.

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.

The strategy of “leaderless resistance” has allowed white power activists to disguise the extent of their organizing.

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

It has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.

King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.

Until COVID-19, tuberculosis killed more people each year than any other infectious disease. Its rising toll is increasingly fueled by mass incarceration.

The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.

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.

We must end the widespread practice of funding government budgets by extorting poor people apprehended for minor offenses.

Effective responses to violence—preventing it, interrupting it, holding people accountable, and helping people heal—already exist. We need to learn from and invest in them.

New York State Rifle & Pistol v. Bruen may give the right—and its politics of racial resentment—a major win,  at the cost of gun control laws known to prevent shootings.