Abolitionist Struggles Are Also Matters of Global Justice
Protesters hold signs during a People for Peace rally at the Chief Quipuha Statue on August 14, 2017, in Hagåtña, Guam.
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After many decades of organizing, the resurgence of Black-led uprisings have brought abolitionist demands to âdefund, disarm and abolishâ into the mainstream. These struggles largely center on local police department budgets and prison expansion projects in major cities and jurisdictions across the continental United States. But abolitionist struggles are also matters of global justice, and interconnected to the movements to abolish the military-industrial complex, colonization and imperialism. The connections between decolonial and abolitionist struggles are deep and full of coalitional possibilities.