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Maria Thomas
Artist, poet, and organizer whose current work focuses on interrupting criminalization...
September 7, 2023
Abolition and Anti-capitalism: For a Liberation Economy
Solana RiceMaurice BP-Weeks
The following are edited excerpts from remarks shared by Maurice BP-Weeks, founder of The Action Center on Race and the Economy, and Solana Rice, a founder of Liberation in a Generating, during the Abolitionist Organizing Network...
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September 7, 2023
The Struggle to Stop Cop City—By Any Means Necessary
Micah HerskindKamau Franklin
A history of Stop Cop City and the struggle to defend the Atlanta Forest. A must read for anyone interested in getting the whole story and understanding the strategic thinking informing some of the most important organizing in the...
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Kamau Franklin
Founder of Community Movement Builders, Inc. Kamau has been a dedicated community organizer for over thirty years.
September 7, 2023
Abolition as a Transnational, Anti-colonial Struggle
Robyn Maynard
The following is an edited and expanded version of opening remarks from Robyn Maynard at the 2022 Abolitionist Network Gathering. Robyn provides context for the abolitionist movement in Canada and explains how deeply intertwined...
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Robyn Maynard
Author and scholar based in Toronto, where she holds the position of Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms in Canada at the University of Toronto-Scarborough in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies.
September 7, 2023
What Will Increase Everyone’s Well-Being?
Mariame Kaba
Mariame Kaba explains Transformative Justice and why it is essential to improving the lives of all humans. From Mariame's opening statement at the Abolitionist Gathering at the 2022 Allied Media Conference.
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Andrea J. Ritchie
Andrea is a Black lesbian immigrant survivor who co-founded Interrupting Criminalization and the In Our Names Network, a network of over 20 organizations working to end police violence against Black women, girls, trans and gender...
September 7, 2023
What Time Is It on the Clock of Abolitionist Organizing?
Andrea J. Ritchie
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