Criminalizing Dissent
Criminalized for Obeying a Higher Law
Nuclear abolitionists in the Plowshares movement have been imprisoned for bringing attention to the fact that nuclear weapons are immoral and illegal under international law.
5 posts in ‘political prisoners’
Nuclear abolitionists in the Plowshares movement have been imprisoned for bringing attention to the fact that nuclear weapons are immoral and illegal under international law.
A recent anthology offers an accessible political education in the long history of seeking to abolish U.S. prisons.
The oral histories of political prisoners shed light on their true character—and expose the darkness of the state.
Abolitionist Ruchell Cinqué Magee is the country’s longest-held political prisoner.
How Martin Sostre’s ‘single act of resistance’ stood for a broader struggle for bodily autonomy and collective liberation.