Making Labor Work
Today’s labor movements must see the carceral state not just as a related progressive battle, but as central to the struggle for workers’ rights.
19 posts in ‘collective action’
Today’s labor movements must see the carceral state not just as a related progressive battle, but as central to the struggle for workers’ rights.
Abolition and public health go hand in hand. Organizers are embracing both as they pursue decarceral projects that center everyone’s well-being.
A hopeful, practical new book shows how abolitionist organizers today are building the world anew.
There can be justice beyond punishment. To realize it, we must challenge the narrative that carceral violence is the only response to other forms of violence.
Taking criminal law out of immigration enforcement is a step toward safer, healthier communities. But is it enough?
Jails are everywhere, trapping people and resources belonging to communities. And everywhere, there are organizers contesting that reality.
Even among abolitionists, there's room for those who lack hope.
How the peaceful takeover of Walpole prison in 1973 holds lessons for abolitionists today.
There are many forms of resistance undertaken by relatives and friends of incarcerated people, but the system renders them invisible.
Acting within the criminal legal system cannot be the solution, on its own, to the existence of the carceral state.
Organizing and collective acts of resistance allow us to not only imagine new understandings of justice and safety, but to live them out.
Putting our ideas into practice—allowing ourselves to try, fail, and try again—will be how we move closer to a world without the harms of policing, prisons, and punishment.
In order to invest in a vision for a new way of living, we have to believe in our capacity to create something better—together.
How organizing workers in immigrant detention can serve as a foundation for abolition and liberation for all.
For the past decade, people incarcerated in Alabama have led successful national worker strikes. Could a new prisoners’ rights movement be underway?
How one labor union in New York is organizing and creating solidarity among formerly incarcerated workers—and winning.
As public defenders, we are not “fighting the system”—we are the system. Because of this, we have power, and the numbers, to change it.
When the state of Virginia starved them, the author and his incarcerated comrades banded together to gain recognition of their right as citizens to access the courts.
The largest public health professional organization in the U.S. took a stand against carceral systems as fundamentally antithetical to public health. Here’s why that matters.