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Across the United States, hundreds of thousands of students encounter law enforcement officers before they encounter a school counselor. The school-to-prison pipeline is not an accident — it is a budget choice, replicated in district after district, that prioritizes policing over care. This guide is for the educators, parents, students, and organizers ready to reverse that choice.
In cities from Denver to Durham, community organizations are not waiting for police reform to arrive from above — they are building functional alternatives from the ground up. These peer-led networks are answering crisis calls, resolving conflicts, and delivering harm reduction services in ways that uniformed officers rarely can and often make worse. This is abolition in practice, and it is working.
Abolition is not an abstraction — it is a practice, built action by action, campaign by campaign, and coalition by coalition. Whether you are newly radicalized or a seasoned organizer, this toolkit lays out ten concrete steps you can take right now to chip away at the systems of incarceration, surveillance, and criminalization that define American injustice. Every action includes the organizations leading the charge and ways to measure your impact.