https://www.abolitionnow.org/ Dismantling Systems. Building Justice. en Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:27:11 GMT https://www.abolitionnow.org/classrooms-over-cruisers-blueprint-removing-police-from-schools/ https://www.abolitionnow.org/classrooms-over-cruisers-blueprint-removing-police-from-schools/ 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. Abolition Now Activist Toolkit Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:20:51 GMT https://www.abolitionnow.org/ransom-before-verdict-for-profit-bail-machinery-caging-unconvicted/ https://www.abolitionnow.org/ransom-before-verdict-for-profit-bail-machinery-caging-unconvicted/ Every night in the United States, nearly half a million people sit in local jails not because they have been convicted of any crime, but because they cannot afford to purchase their freedom. The cash bail system has evolved into a sophisticated industrial apparatus — one that extracts billions from the poorest Americans while generating enormous profits for a small class of bondsmen and insurers. Understanding how this machinery operates is the first step toward dismantling it. Abolition Now Policy & Reform Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:20:51 GMT https://www.abolitionnow.org/fines-fees-fetters-legal-machinery-poor-americans-perpetual-debt/ https://www.abolitionnow.org/fines-fees-fetters-legal-machinery-poor-americans-perpetual-debt/ Across the United States, a sprawling architecture of court fines, bail premiums, and supervision fees has transformed the criminal legal system into a debt-collection apparatus targeting the most economically vulnerable. What appears on paper as routine judicial procedure functions, in practice, as a mechanism of indefinite control. Grassroots organizers are fighting back — and winning. Abolition Now Policy & Reform Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:20:48 GMT https://www.abolitionnow.org/neighbors-first-responders-community-led-safety-networks-rewriting-protection/ https://www.abolitionnow.org/neighbors-first-responders-community-led-safety-networks-rewriting-protection/ 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 Now Activist Toolkit Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:20:48 GMT https://www.abolitionnow.org/beyond-the-badge-cities-reimagining-public-safety-without-police/ https://www.abolitionnow.org/beyond-the-badge-cities-reimagining-public-safety-without-police/ Across the United States, a growing number of municipalities are proving that the presence of armed officers is not the only — or even the most effective — answer to community crises. From Eugene, Oregon to Denver, Colorado, alternative response programs are delivering measurable results while centering care over criminalization. This is what transformative public safety actually looks like. Abolition Now Policy & Reform Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:20:48 GMT https://www.abolitionnow.org/ten-concrete-actions-to-dismantle-carceral-systems-prison-abolition-toolkit/ https://www.abolitionnow.org/ten-concrete-actions-to-dismantle-carceral-systems-prison-abolition-toolkit/ 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. Abolition Now Activist Toolkit Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:20:48 GMT