#Abolitionist

The Abolitionist

As abolitionists, we believe that social structures, both formal and informal, need to support people's lives and ability to live. As a severe public health crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic has

Gabriel San Román 🎃

When you examine the history of newspapers started by Black people, Indigenous peoples and Latinos in this country—or the publications of abolitionist and trade union whites, you see episodes of

when angela davis encouraged us to imagine justice outside of retributive justice, saying that the impulse towards vengeance is a state impulse, and that we can and should imagine justice

A question for people who respond to calls for PIC abolition with, “what about the rapist?” What about how we currently respond to rape is working for you? A vast

Thread: The American policing system is not broken. It's working exactly how it was intended to work. Abolish it.(Content warning: Police violence and brutality, racism, sexism, assault) Policing is a

the new vanguard

this is a question i've gotten at least 2x a week since i started publicly IDing as an abolitionist. it's been answered by ppl much more articulate than i but

#StandWithTracy!

The presence of rapists in our communities is not an argument for prisons or policing.Prisons uphold rape culture.Instead of asking, "What about the rapists?" ask yourself: How do you respond

words mean things

take a community class on “how not to call the cops” and “how to deescalate” its easy to say “i’ll never call the cops” but what does that mean?? what

Some history I forgot to mention about Mother’s Day for some people who might not know. /thread Mother’s Day as we know it is a holiday formally recognised by the

Metaphors & Memes

CulturedModesty

A Twitter archive of my @BlkPerspectives scholarship. #Blktwitterstorians The Importance of Sarah Forten's Abolitionist Poetry https://www.aaihs.org/the-importance-of-sarah-fortens-abolitionist-poetry/ via @aaihs Black Rights and Black Citizenshi

AndrewRHairston

I began my social justice journey in earnest nine years ago, while I was in college. A number of us protested Troy Davis' execution in Georgia. Though it proceeded, I

Seeing some threads that suggest Hamilton was not against slavery. As far as everything I read, he was a committed abolitionist. Here are details from Chernow's autobiography to contextualize. Hamilton

Tonight we are discussing conditions in prisons and detention centres during the coronavirus crisis, and the challenges abolitionist/ anti-carceral activists are facing #HISTORYACTS First up is Dave from @psn_ldn. The

I have a full time career managing software development teams, but I spend a fair amount of time on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) work. A common question I still

Zinn Ed Project

U.S. Postal Service is often in center of fights for democracy. For exp., the American Anti-Slavery Society launched postal campaign in 1835 to flood South with abolitionist literature. White supremacists

the new vanguard

what's stopping you from identifying as an anarchist/marxist/abolitionist ? what's the question ur stuck on or the theory u don't fully understand? ask the question and i'll do my best