If no credit feels weird to you, my name is Amber Hughson and my IG is @conflicttransformation
About the Abolition these images represent:
Ruth Wilson Gilmore explains "Abolition is about abolishing the conditions under which prisons became the solutions to problems, rather than abolishing the buildings we call prisons;" abolition is the work of building anti-oppressive culture and ways of addressing harm that center care. Abolition as a political practice is grounded in Black liberation; liberation from slavery, Jim Crow, policing, and incarceration. The term abolition as a confrontation with policing and prisons was popularized most notably by former Black Panther Party member and scholar-activist Angela Davis. Later, the work of modern abolition was shaped by the organization Critical Resistance. There are hundreds of organizations shaping this work today, including Survived and Punished, Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, Black & Pink, The Red Nation, Southerners on New Ground, BYP100, and of course, Black Lives Matter. In Minneapolis where rebellions continue, central abolitionist organizations are Reclaim the Block and Black Visions Collective.
