Motherhood Made Me Even More of a Prison and Police Abolitionist
The Marshall Project
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Jan 10, 2025

Motherhood Made Me Even More of a Prison and Police Abolitionist

In this excerpt from “We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition,” co-editor Maya Schenwar names an unexpected source of wisdom: children.

Truthout
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Jan 20, 2025

A Call to Media Organizations: Don’t Back Down in the Face of Trump’s Threats

Inquest
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Dec 12, 2024

Back to the Basics

Truthout
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Nov 27, 2024

The Right Has a 150-Page Battle Plan to Shut Down Progressive Civil Society

Critical Resistance
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Nov 19, 2024

Movement Media Organizations Are Uniting for Palestinian Liberation

Truthout
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Nov 14, 2024

An Imagination Party”: How My Toddler Fuels My Vision for Liberation

Truthout
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Aug 28, 2024

Movement media organizations are coming together to build power

The Movement Media Alliance is a coalition working to build a journalism of accountability based on social justice.

In These Times
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Jun 27, 2024

We Can’t Let the Press Launder Israel’s War

Truthout
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Apr 18, 2024

Abolition Is a Project of Human Liberation That Must Be Ongoing

Truthout
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Mar 4, 2024

Media Organizations Come Together to Uplift Journalism for a Free Palestine

Truthout
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Dec 7, 2023

Hanukkah Is a Time for Palestine Solidarity, From Fasting to Public Disruption

In These Times
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Dec 6, 2023

This Chanukah Is a Time for Palestine Solidarity, From Fasting to Public Disruption

Truthout
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Oct 18, 2023

Israel’s Violence Will Never Bring Safety to Anyone, Including Jews

Truthout
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Jun 16, 2023

Right-Wingers Push Death Penalty Reinstatement Bills as Part of Hardline Agenda

Truthout
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May 19, 2023

To Resist Right-Wing Push for “Parents’ Rights,” Let’s Focus On Youth Liberation

Truthout
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Apr 26, 2023

From Military to Policing: Say No to a Federal Budget That Prioritizes Violence

Truthout
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Feb 14, 2023

Beyond Valentines: Five Ways to Write Letters That Can Change the World

Truthout
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Jan 1, 2023

Let 2023 Be the Year of Dismantling Incarceration

Truthout
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Feb 7, 2022

Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie Talk Abolition Feminism

NBC News
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Nov 23, 2021

Classwide Scheduling of Fentanyl Analogs Only Deepens the Overdose Crisis

Truthout
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Jun 28, 2021

My Sister Died of an Overdose. Defunding the Police Might Have Saved Her.

Mother Well Mag
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Mar 18, 2021

My Toddler Talks to Bagels. Will He Be Able to Talk to Other Kids?

Truthout
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Feb 13, 2021

Legalizing All Drugs Is Just the Beginning of a Compassionate Drug Policy

In These Times
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Jul 31, 2020

How the Foster Care System Punishes the Poor

Slate
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Jul 30, 2020

Prison by Any Other Name

Medium
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Jul 27, 2020

House Arrest Is Touted as a Humane Punishment. It’s Not.

Truthout
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Jul 8, 2020

Abolish Policing, Not Just the Police

Truthout
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Mar 10, 2020

Biden’s Plan for the Opioid Crisis Would Endanger Lives

Truthout
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Jun 20, 2019

They Are Concentration Camps — and They Are Also Prisons

Truthout
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Apr 25, 2019

Allowing People in Prison to Vote Shouldn’t Be Controversial

Truthout
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Nov 14, 2018

The Midterms Did Not Stop the March of Fascism, But We Can

Truthout
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Sep 3, 2018

I’m in Labor and Wondering: Why Doesn’t the World Recognize This as Work?

Truthout
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Mar 21, 2018

A Call to the Media: Let’s Go Beyond “Preserving Democracy”

Truthout
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Jan 14, 2018

Beyond Reform, Toward the End of Policing: An Interview With Alex Vitale

Truthout
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Sep 3, 2017

Centering Women of Color Is Key to Understanding and Resisting Police Violence

Truthout
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Aug 24, 2017

Remaking Media in the Pursuit of Justice

Truthout
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Jun 29, 2017

“Stop-and-Frisk” for Caregivers: How Expanded Mandated Reporting Laws Hurt Families

Truthout
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May 30, 2017

Introducing “America’s Toxic Prisons”

Truthout
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Mar 20, 2017

It’s Time to Dismantle Trump’s Murder Budget and Defund Militarism

Truthout
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Jan 22, 2017

Life After Exoneration: Alison Flowers Discusses What Comes Next

Truthout
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Oct 12, 2016

More Proof the Drug War Is Not Over

Truthout
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Sep 9, 2016

Jailing Bresha Meadows Is No Route to Justice

Truthout
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Jul 17, 2016

“Fast Fashion”: Anne Elizabeth Moore on the Global Garment and Sex Trades

Truthout
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Mar 20, 2016

Why We Must Listen to Survivors of Solitary Confinement

Truthout
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Mar 20, 2016

When Prison Reform Means Prison Expansion

Truthout
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Feb 19, 2016

To Make Health Care for All a Reality, Stop Killing People

Minnesota Public Radio
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Jul 14, 2015

Op-ed: Why we should abolish bail

NY Times
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May 9, 2015

Too Many People in Jail? Abolish Bail

In These Times
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Jan 24, 2015

Your Home Is Your Prison: How to Lock Down Your Neighborhood, Your Country, and You

Truthout
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Jan 19, 2015

Your Home Is Your Prison

The Real News Network
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Jan 12, 2015

Do Prisons and Mass Incarceration Keep Us Safe? (1/2)

YES! Magazine
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Dec 20, 2014

Kids on Chicago’s West Side Break the School-to-Prison Pipeline with Restorative Circles

Truthout
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Dec 18, 2014

Declaring War on Heroin

Talking Points Memo
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Dec 12, 2014

The Radical Power of a Prison Pen Pal

Solitary Watch
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Nov 26, 2014

Working from the Inside Out

In These Times
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Nov 21, 2014

Locked Down, Locked Out: Exclusive Excerpt from Maya Schenwar’s New Book

Truthout
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Nov 19, 2014

Talk Nation Radio: Maya Schenwar on Why Prison Doesn’t Work

Ravishly
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Nov 4, 2014

The Case For A Prison Pen Pal: Exclusive Excerpt From Locked Down, Locked Out

Truthout
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Oct 27, 2014

Mandatory Rehab Is Just a New Front in the War on Drugs – The Guardian

Ravishly
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Oct 6, 2014

Women In Prison Are Denied Their Humanity

Truthout
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Aug 14, 2014

“Stop Fearing Our Children”: Why Juvenile Incarceration Needs to Go

Truthout
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Aug 14, 2014

“Arsenal to Destroy Revolutionaries”: Political Imprisonment Persists

Truthout
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May 16, 2014

Five Principles for Independent Media in 2014

Truthout
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Mar 14, 2014

The Prison System Welcomes My Newborn Niece to This World

NY Times
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Mar 14, 2014

Reduce Gun Penalties

Truthout
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Feb 18, 2014

Prison Phone Company Whines,”WE MISS YOU!”

Truthout
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Nov 27, 2013

Why Health Care Isn’t Just About Insurance

Truthout
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Oct 8, 2013

Let’s Stop Starving Drug Offenders Back to Prison

Prison Legal News
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Aug 15, 2013

Please Stop “Reforming” Pelican Bay

Ms. Magazine
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Nov 29, 2010

What Would Susan B. Anthony Say?

Ms. Magazine
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Jun 21, 2010

Campaign Tackles Women’s Chronic Pain–But There’s a LONG Way to Go

Ms. Magazine
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May 13, 2010

Women’s Chronic Pain Goes Ignored, Unresearched, Underfunded

Ms. Magazine
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May 7, 2010

Disgust, Propaganda and Same-Sex Marriage

Ms. Magazine
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Apr 12, 2010

In Prison, Toilet Paper Is the New Tampon

In These Times
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Sep 27, 2004

Government Approved

In These Times
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Aug 5, 2004

Freedom Reborn

In These Times
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Jul 9, 2004

International Court of Justice to Rule on Israeli Wall