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Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, and the NAARPR

June 15, 2022June 14, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky abolition, Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, Communism, CPUSA, JoAnne Little, National Defense Organization Against Racist And Political Repression, Prison Abolition

In June 1972, an all-white jury acquitted Angela Davis of charges in her alleged role in an August 1970 Marin County, California

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Prison Policy from the Bottom Up

January 11, 2021January 10, 2021 Amanda Hughett #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, law, mass incarceration, Prison Abolition, prisons

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. We Are Not Slaves:

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Reckoning with Carceral Technologies Through Abolition

November 17, 2020November 23, 2020 Brittany Friedman #ThoseWhoKnow, carceral state, mass incarceration, Prison Abolition, prisons

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Garrett Felber’s Those Who Know Don’t Say.

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Bail Funds, Buying Freedom, and a History of Abolition

August 13, 2020August 14, 2020 Julia W. Bernier abolition, abolitionism, Prison Abolition

In recent months bail funds have gained unprecedented popularity as a way to redistribute funds to release protesters arrested in

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The Everyday Black Life of Abolition

August 5, 2020August 12, 2020 Celeste Winston maroons, policing, Prison Abolition, social justice

The summer of 2020 has seen extraordinary uprisings against policing in the United States. An estimated 15 to 26 million

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