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Migrants as an excuse for security tightening

Latin American and Caribbean governments have used the migration phenomenon to implement aporophobic and xenophobic practices, which have already proved unsuccessful in the US. By: Zhandra Flores Governments’ response to migrants in a context of growing stigmatisation of outsiders, who…

Abolishing Police and Abolishing Militaries

The similarities between the movement to abolish war and the movement to abolish police and prisons jump out at me anew when reading Mariame Kaba’s We Do This ‘Til We Free Us, which is about police and prison abolition. The book…

Activist: For a New Generation, Ferguson Marks Historic Nonviolent Resistance to Police Repression

Democracy Now! As protests continue in Ferguson, activists are traveling to Missouri to join the movement in solidarity. We speak with one activist who has just arrived to Ferguson from Florida, Phillip Agnew, the executive director of Dream Defenders, a…