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fromTruthout
1 day ago

Fascism at the Door, Neighbors in the Street: Abolition in Practice

Abolition requires urgent political education, skill-building, recruitment, and counter-recruitment to translate street energy and experiences with state violence into sustained movement power.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Police and crime commissioners to be abolished, government to announce

The controversial system of police and crime commissioners is to be abolished by the government, the Guardian has learned. Under the system, introduced under the Conservatives, all 43 police forces covering local areas across England and Wales had to answer to an elected official. The system, introduced in 2012, was supposed to boost the accountability and performance of police forces.
UK politics
Social justice
fromTruthout
2 weeks ago

Formerly Incarcerated Women Are Building a Global Network to Fight Imprisonment

Susan Kigula's legal mobilization and the International Network of Formerly Incarcerated Women built global abolitionist power to challenge punitive policies and reduce women's incarceration.
Social justice
fromTruthout
3 weeks ago

When Everything Is Criminalized, We Must Unlearn the Language of "Innocence"

Sustainable grassroots organizing in criminalized movements requires mutual aid, community-based safety, accountability processes, collective care, resource redistribution, and refusal of carceral solutions.
Social justice
fromColossal
3 months ago

Maria Gaspar On Abolition and the High Stakes of Working with Incarcerated Communities

Maria Gaspar transforms carceral spaces through collaborative, material-based art that centers care, abolition, spatial justice, and community-engaged healing.
History
fromWorld History Encyclopedia
3 months ago

Creole Mutiny: The Most Successful Slave Revolt in US History

The Creole Mutiny resulted in the successful liberation of 19 enslaved men, redirecting the ship to British territory where slavery was abolished.
fromWorld History Encyclopedia
7 months ago

Fear of Insurrection

Jacobs provides a poignant description of the widespread fear experienced by the White community post-Turner’s Rebellion, illustrating how this terror manifested in violent reprisals against Black individuals.
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