Abolition
A Journal & Community of Radical Theory & Practice
"Abolition requires that we change one thing, which is everything. When one says prison abolition, one cannot be talking about only prison... It's building the future from the present in all the ways we can."Ruth Wilson Gilmore
A Journal and Community of Radical Theory & Practice
![[image description] Book cover with title "Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire" edited by the Abolition Collective - with an outer space scene, one orange planet in the upper right corner and one red planet in the lower left corner.](https://i0.wp.com/abolitionjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/making-abolitionist-worlds.jpeg?fit=684%2C1024&ssl=1)
We will not apologize for being an island of safety in a sea of uncertainty and death.
Article 16 of the Ft. Laramie Treaty signed in 1868 by your government and our respected ancestors dictates the following: ‘stipulates and agrees that no white person or persons shall be permitted to settle upon or occupy any portion of the same; or without the consent of the Indians first… to pass through the same’…
We invite you to join us in protecting the lives of our people and those that live on this reservation.
Chairman Harold Frazier
Statement on SD Governor Kristi Noem’s opposition to Health Checkpoints on the Cheyenne River Sioux reservation.
Black Internationalist Unions
This is a call to support black internationalist unions (BIUs) as a form of “abolitionism” that fights anti-black regimes. BIUs have existed for centuries in opposition to the exploitation and captivity— genocide—of African and African diasporic people. Anti-lynching crusader and investigative reporter Ida Wells (1862-1931), who advocated various forms of black communal self-defense, embodies the legacy of BIUs.
War is not a Metaphor
Political Resistance
Africa / Diaspora
Antiblackness / Genocide
Vulnerabilities
Uprising 2020
!["together we lift the sky" [hands clasped] - A black and white linocut graphic by Eileen Jimenez of two hands clasped tightly from the wrist up. Above the hands “Together we lift the sky” is written, with “together” in lower case flowing cursive script and “we lift the sky” in blocky capital letters.](https://i1.wp.com/abolitionjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/eileen-jimenez_together-we-lift-the-sky_hi-res-credits-1-scaled-2.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&ssl=1)
Bail Funds
Political Prisoners
Pandemic Solidarity & Struggles
Our inaugual issue, published in 2019
Abolition Journal
A project for research, publishing, and study that encourage us to make the impossible possible, to seek transformation well beyond policy changes and toward revolutionary abolitionism
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