Remembering Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask
One year ago before America’s “birthday,” Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask passed on and became an ancestor to our lāhui. Dr. Trask was a historian, activist, leader…
Two Years Since Our Collaborative Abolition Article
It’s somehow been almost two whole years since my now-comrade Leilani Maxera and I wrote a collaborative abolition article calling for dismantling of the prison…
Giving Thanks for Ruth Wilson Gilmore
My ‘Activist Profiles’ of the past featured abolitionists like Angela Y. Davis and Mariame Kaba and a lawyer in Bryan Stevenson, so to add to…
Abortion Resources Post-Roe v. Wade
On Friday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade—the 1973 landmark decision that ruled the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protected…
Celebrating Juneteenth and the End of Chattel Slavery
Today we celebrate Juneteenth—a paramount day commemorating the emancipation of Black people from chattel slavery. On June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Texas finally learned…
Remembering George Stinney Jr. 78 Years Later
George Stinney Jr. was only 14 years old when he was executed 78 years ago on June 16. He was just a baby when the…
Two Years Since the Creation of 8 to Abolition
Two years ago I wrote a response to DeRay Mckesson, Brittany Packnett Cunningham, and Samuel Sinyangwe’s police reform proposal 8 Can’t Wait. Although their organization…
Sweltering Summers are Fatal for Incarcerated People
Four winters ago, I wrote about the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn torturing its incarcerated citizens by denying them access to heat, power, winter clothes,…
People and Reading Resources for New Abolitionists
In order to maintain the true definition and study of Prison Industrial Complex abolition—which Critical Resistance describes as “PIC abolition is a political vision with…