Rachel Herzing fights the violence of policing and imprisonment. She is a co-founder of Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization dedicated to abolishing the prison industrial complex and was the co-director of the Story Telling & Organizing Project (STOP), a community resource sharing stories of interventions to interpersonal harm that do not rely on policing, imprisonment or traditional social services.Source
As more activists embrace abolition of the prison industrial complex, here’s what this work demands of us in practice.
In the early 2000s, I sat in an organizing meeting discussing how to prevent a new prison from being built. After listening to several people talk about ways our coalition could encourage the prison to be sited somewhere else or on a smaller footprint, I wondered aloud if we shouldn’t make a case for no prison to be built at all. This meeting sticks out in my mind in part because someone who should have been an ally discouraged me from talking about prison abolition,...…As more activists embrace abolition of the prison industrial complex, here’s what this work demands of us in practice.
In the early 2000s, I sat in an organizing meeting discussing how to prevent a new prison from being built. After listening to several people talk about ways our coalition could encourage the prison to be sited somewhere else or on a smaller footprint, I wondered aloud if we shouldn’t make a case for no prison to be built at all. This meeting sticks out in my mind in part because someone who should have been an ally discouraged me from talking about prison abolition,...WW…
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