For the People’s Health
Abolition and public health go hand in hand. Organizers are embracing both as they pursue decarceral projects that center everyone’s well-being.
17 posts in ‘community organizing’
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.
They were incarcerated in Eastern Kentucky, far from home. Now they’re free and back, hoping the region won’t build a new prison there.
For many years, Kentuckians have been fighting the construction of a federal prison. They’ve been winning, but their fight isn’t over.
In Illinois, ending money bond was our target. Pretrial freedom is our goal.
To truly provide justice for those with criminal records, we must question harmful binaries that separate “good” from “bad” immigrants.
Despite the stumbling blocks imposed by Republican state governments, abolition is happening in the South and in small towns, with organizing specially tailored to local needs.
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.
Community-based gun violence prevention is at a crossroads. A group in Chicago shows how abolition may hold the key to its future.
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.
ICE entanglement in local law enforcement is just one iteration of a bigger system meant to police our communities. And we can fight it.
A growing carceral state has slowly replaced the coal industry in large swaths of Central Appalachia. But even here, a different future is possible.
The criminal legal system almost took my life from me. The anger that came after now fuels my life’s work.
Before bold, decarceral changes can become a reality, community organizers tirelessly move the policy needle in other ways. Here’s how they did it in Illinois.