abolition

"Police generally aren’t trained or qualified to respond to mental health crises."

“All of our movements are made of groups and collaborations that are only as strong as our relationships."

"How can we push back today on this repression and the ideas that underpin it?"

Aubin Pictures’ latest documentary follows the journey of Faith Ringgold’s painting, For the Women’s House, in the correctional facility from 1971 to today.

"The US immigration enforcement system and the prison industrial complex are not separate, but are intertwined systems of repression."

The police are making it abundantly clear they're not there to protect students. But that’s also not news.

Hear what abolitionists have to say.

Civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis explains.

“We felt our lives were in danger. We are traumatized.”

Robin D.G. Kelley’s ‘Freedom Dreams’ is finding itself in the hands of a new generation.

"We could actually knock some sh*t down and build some new sh*t up."

How is sending cops after the mentally ill and unhoused "care"?

Here’s what they had to say.

"There's never been a clearer demonstration of police ineptitude, dishonesty, failure, and callous disregard for our lives."

Through Noname Book Club, the musician and poet is working to share free books and build community.

The Radical Hood Library wants to promote “liberatory and revolutionary ideas.”

These books helped me understand the world.

Indira Sheumaker, 27, was elected to Des Moines's City Council.

Author Derecka Purnell explores alternatives to policing.

“Abolition looks like community care at its core.”