Abolition


Are Prisons Obsolete?
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
The End of Policing
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
No More Police: A Case for Abolition
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
The Invention of Wings
Gary L. Francione
I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally justified, then we ought to be clear about that, and advocate for no use. Although rape and child molestation are ubiquitous, we do not have campaigns for “humane” rape or “humane” child molestation. We condemn it all. We should do the same with respect to animal exploitation. Second, animal welfare reform does not provide significant protection for animal interests. Animals are chattel property; t ...more
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Barbara Deming
Violence is already active here; it is built into the very structure od the existing society. If we seek a world in which men do the least possible violence to each other (which is to state just the negative of it), then we are committed not simply to try to avoid violence ourselves, but to try to destroy patterns of violence which already exist.
Barbara Deming, Prisons That Could Not Hold

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