organizing
What Solidarity Looks Like
A collaboration between the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago and Northwestern University is helping to save lives by honoring multiple forms of expertise.
chicago
6 posts in ‘chicago’
activism
Anticipating Repression
The Democratic National Convention will be a testing ground for whether progressive politics can meet political dissent without carceral violence.
social control
Safety from Surveillance
In their fight to get ShotSpotter out of Chicago, organizers have emphasized the ways that for-profit technology can never deliver on its promises to make communities safer.
roundtable
From Reformism to Revolution
As organizers in Illinois know well, it is necessary to engage with criminalizing institutions to better learn how to defeat them.
interventions
On Both Sides of the Gun
Community-based gun violence prevention is at a crossroads. A group in Chicago shows how abolition may hold the key to its future.
excerpt
A Point of No Return
Understanding the past of the Cook County Jail is understanding its present.