roundtable
Keeping Each Other Safe
Acting within the criminal legal system cannot be the solution, on its own, to the existence of the carceral state.
Essays reflecting on Jocelyn Simonson’s Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration
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Acting within the criminal legal system cannot be the solution, on its own, to the existence of the carceral state.
As organizers in Illinois know well, it is necessary to engage with criminalizing institutions to better learn how to defeat them.
Radical acts of justice can happen within the confines of the system. Or well outside it, as demonstrated by the organized resistance to Atlanta's Cop City.
Organizing and collective acts of resistance allow us to not only imagine new understandings of justice and safety, but to live them out.