Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
Mexican Is Not a Race
Poet Wendy Trevino argues that a radical new Chicanx politics means forging an identity based on shared political struggle, not myths of racial homogeneity--an idea rooted in anarchist struggles along the Texas-Mexican border a century ago
The Myth of Liberal Policing
For liberals, police reform is always a question of helping police sustain their legitimacy, despite their illegitimate roots
#DeafJustice
A crash course on ableism in the prison and justice systems
Shop Talk
Kristen Stewart haunts Personal Shopper with a presence all of her own.
The Nonviolent/Violent Dichotomy
Focusing on nonviolence won’t decrease our nation’s prison population.
Cruel Pessimism
A new book on debt reminds us that we have not left the time of crisis yet
Strike Force
A dispatch from the Free Alabama Movement and Oakland IWOC.
The Demand Remains
To equate white motherhood, black motherhood and the fear that runs through them is violent and nothing else.
Viral Oppression
Oppressive regimes don't impose a reality; they fracture it
Vacate the Slave State
Taking lessons from maroon societies, it’s time to reimagine and transform how we view prison abolition.
Life Is Too Much Like Real Life
Life is a bad handshake.
#Abolish
@prisonculture's Twitter Takeover
Homeward Bound
With electronic home monitoring, the prisoner pays for her cell and becomes her own prison guard.
Speaking to No One
Broadcasting on social media is less about communication than making you the audience to yourself
Administrative Remedy
The 2.2 million people currently incarcerated in the United States exist in a state of perpetual vulnerability to unchecked administrative power.
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
Abolish the ICE Prison Complex
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Border Theories
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Operation Streamline
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
In the Water
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Cross-Border Operations
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Empire Records
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks