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A Response to Abolitionist Planning: There is No Room for ‘Planners’ in the Movement for Abolition

  • August 9, 2018

Abolition is a movement that seeks to end prisons, police, and border walls. Why? They are institutions of war built on colonial and capitalist legacies of indigenous, Black, brown, Asian and poor violence. They only produce violence and need to…

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