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Build Your Fortress
Now more than ever communities must protect our own, even as we prepare for a long battle.
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Now more than ever communities must protect our own, even as we prepare for a long battle.
Participatory defense gives families and communities an opportunity to protect their own in courtroom spaces that have long robbed them of power.
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.