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“The majority of people who are in prison are there because society has failed them.”

Racism Prison Abolition Austerity Classism Mass Incarceration Prison Industrial Complex Prison Abolition Welfare Retrenchment

Book:Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

Source: Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

“The very existence of the prison forecloses the kinds of discussions that we need in order to imagine the possibility of eradicating these behaviors. Just send them to prison. Just keep on sending them to prison. Then of course, in prison they find themselves within a violent institution that reproduces violence.”

Abolition Mass Incarceration Prison Industrial Complex Prison Abolition Carceral State

Book:Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

Source: Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

“Today, the growing social movement contesting the supremacy of global capital is a movement that directly challenges the rule of the planet—its human, animal, and plant populations, as well as its natural resources—by corporations that are primarily interested in the increased production and circulation of ever more profitable commodities. This is a challenge to the supremacy of the commodity form, a rising resistance to the contemporary tendency to commodify every aspect of planetary existence. The question we might consider is whether this new resistance to capitalist globalization should also incorporate resistance to the prison.”

Capitalism Abolition Prison Reform Abolition Of Prison

Book:Are Prisons Obsolete?

Source: Are Prisons Obsolete?

“Local issues have global ramifications.”

Activism Abolition Ferguson

Book:Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

Source: Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

“It is a mistake to assume that all we have to do is guarantee the prosecution of the cop who killed Michael Brown. The major challenge of this period is to infuse a consciousness of the structural character of state violence into the movements that spontaneously arise.”

Activism Abolition Ferguson Antiracism Michael Brown

Book:Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

Source: Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement