prison abolition

Ellie Ade Kur and Abby Stadnyk are grassroots organizers with abolitionist politics. They are also both involved in Disarm,...
Martha Paynter and Frédérique Chabot have each spent a lot of years doing a lot of different kinds of grassroots political work...
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The late Peter Collins, who as a prisoner was a key Prison Justice Day organizer, stated: “There is no natural death in prison.”...
Tonye Aganaba and Chantelle Spicer live in the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people, in what...
Ardath Whynacht is an activist, writer, and scholar who lives in Mi’kmaq territory and teaches sociology at Mount Allison...
Scott Neigh Oct 12
Listen to the interview using the audio player below! James Ruston is a member of the Toronto Prisoners’ Rights Project (TPRP), a...
Listen to the interview using the audio player below! Colleen Lynas and Victor Lachance are residents of Kemptville, Ontario....
“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental...
Jeff Shantz May 6
March 20, 2021 was the one-year anniversary of the first prisoner in Canada being confirmed to have contracted COVID-19. This...
Eva Ureta Mar 26
Claire Bodkin and Sara Alavian are both physicians in Hamilton, Ontario. They are also part of an ad hoc group of health workers...
Scott Neigh Jan 19

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