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The Fascism BarometerDisrupting The Frontline of Fascism: Prisons and Policing with Rachel HerzingWhat does the expansion of policing, imprisonment, and surveillance reveal about the rise of fascism? Host Ejeris Dixon sits down with long-time organizer, activist, and author Rachel Herzing to unpack the interlocking systems of state violence known as the prison industrial complex. Herzing, director of the Yarrow Institute and co-author of How to Abolish Prisons, connects the dots between rising fascist power, the racism and violence of the prison and policing system, the erosion of public dissent, and the work of preventing a police state.You can find the tools you need to fight fascism at our...
2025-07-2148 min
Stories for PowerSan Francisco Bay AreaJoin Deana Lewis as she speaks with our guests Rachel Herzing, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Mimi Kim about the essential organizing they were a part of to end violence without police, prisons and other carceral systems during the early to mid-2000’s in Oakland and San Francisco. They discuss the impact of the events of September 11, ongoing gentrification, and ableism on forming abolitionist politics and synergy with the work of Critical Resistance and Incite!. Their reflections on the emergence of community accountability and transformative justice work in that era discern the nuance between what we call the work of in...
2025-05-131h 12
Haymarket Books LiveCriminalization: the Core of Authoritarianism, Fascism, and ResistanceCriminalization is not only a primary tool to suppress dissent, silence opposition, and enforce policies that consolidate and enforce power - it is at the core of how Right wing, authoritarian and fascist agendas, movements, and regimes are enacted, legitimized, and entrenched.Interrupting criminalization - a political process that extends beyond criminal laws, policing, and punishment to a collective construction of categories of "others" framed as existential threats to an imagined and actual social order to be contained, expelled, and, ultimately eradicated - must therefore be at the core of our resistance.Join panelists Andrea...
2025-04-281h 32
Interdependent StudyPunishment & FascismHistory and everyday life have proven that the prison industrial complex and fascism are connected. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the piece “The Punishment System and Fascism Go Hand in Hand” by Rachel Herzing, Amelia Kirby, and Jack Norton in Hammer & Hope, which analyzes the importance of understanding the role that the prison industrial complex plays in the existing and emerging threat of fascism in the United States, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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2024-12-0422 min
Migration ConversationsHow to Abolish Prisons with Justin PichéMeet Justin Piché, co author of the book How to Abolish Prisons with Rachel Herzing. We talk about this book and how abolition is not just a theoretical concept but a practice and a possibility. Justin reveals his research with Rachel and how collective reconstruction to get rid of human cages is a viable movement despite the dark struggles around us.
2024-11-2045 min
LawPodExploring Prison Abolition with Professor Justin PichéIn this episode of LawPod, Dr. Amanda Kramer and Professor Justin Piché discuss Piché's new book (co-authored with Rachel Herzing), 'How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment.'
The book examines the objectives and practices of abolitionist organizers in Canada and the United States, highlighting the tangible successes and challenges of the prison abolition movement. They delve into historical and contemporary reasons for imprisonment, the contradictions within the prison industrial complex, and the societal need to abolish prisons.
Piché shares insights from his own activism, including campaigns against prison expansion, and outlines various strategies for achieving dec...
2024-11-0728 min
Laura Flanders and Friends: Solutions-Focused Progressive Perspectives on Politics, News, and CultureAbolition, Decolonization, and Immigration, Election 2024: Key Topics at the Chicago Socialism ConferenceDiscover how the Left is envisioning a liberated future in today's political climate at the Socialism Conference, hosted by Haymarket Books, featuring key activists and organizers from diverse backgrounds.En el Socialismo Conferencia en Chicago, Laura Flanders y activistas discuten la abolición, descolonización e inmigración con un enfoque en estrategias más allá del ciclo electoral.This show is made possible by you! To become a sustaining member go to https://LauraFlanders.org/donate Thank you for your continued support!Description: Abolition, decolonization, immigration, Palestine — how is the Left thinking about t...
2024-10-1730 min
Death PanelTeaser - How to Abolish Prisons w/ Rachel Herzing & Justin Piché (09/02/24)Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110969806
Beatrice speaks with Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché about how the fight to abolish prisons touches other movements, what abolitionist movement wins tell us about taking the long view in organizing work, and their new book How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment.
Find their new book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2212-how-to-abolish-prisons
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Runtime 1:17:41, 2 September 2024
2024-09-0321 minInterdependent StudyA Love Letter to Abolition“Prison abolition is not a fad, any more than it is a distant, utopian farce. It is a practical organizing praxis that is making a difference today.” Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the book How To Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment by Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché, which examines the evolution, strategies, and work of the grassroots movement for prison abolition across North America, and what we learn and take away from this incredible book in our continued work for social justice and collective liberation.
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2024-06-2627 min
Música CuánticaMúsica Cuantica - Programa nº.:73Hoy sonaron:
01 - Jenny Owen Youngs - Dragonborn (Feat. John Mark Nelson)
02 - Rachel Bobbitt - Gemini Ties
03 - Father John Misty - Only A Fool
04 - Katie Herzing - Where do we go from here
05 - Henry Jamison - To Ash Feat Nico Muhly
06 - Chartreuse And Orlando Weeks - Satellites
07 - Georgia Harmer - Headrush
08 - First Aid Kit - Angel
09 - River Whyless - Oil Skin
10 - Fazerdaze - Come Apart
11 - Castlebeat - Into
12 - Big Scary - Goodbye Earle Street
13 - Tom Boyle - Glub
14 - Gold Spectacles - Steal You Away
15 - Parlour Steps...
2022-09-261h 26
Sojourner Truth RadioSojourner Truth Black August special on George JacksonToday on Sojourner Truth we bring you our Black August Special featuring George Jackson. George Jackson was born in Chicago Illinois. He was one of five children. He was arrested in Northern California 1961 when he was 19 years old for allegedly attempting to rob a gas station at gun point for $600. He was sentenced to 1 year to life in prison and he spent the next 11 years in prison, most of those years were in solitary confinement.
While in prison George became a revolutionary, an organizer and an author. He along with fellow prisoner W.L. Nolan founded the Third World Coalition...
2022-08-0357 minSojourner Truth RadioSojourner Truth Black August special on George JacksonToday on Sojourner Truth we bring you our Black August Special featuring George Jackson. George Jackson was born in Chicago Illinois. He was one of five children. He was arrested in Northern California 1961 when he was 19 years old for allegedly attempting to rob a gas station at gun point for $600. He was sentenced to 1 year to life in prison and he spent the next 11 years in prison, most of those years were in solitary confinement.
While in prison George became a revolutionary, an organizer and an author. He along with fellow prisoner W.L. Nolan founded the Third World Coalition...
2022-08-0357 min
Beyond PrisonsWhat Is The Creative Interventions Toolkit? feat. Mimi Kim & Rachel HerzingThis is the first episode of our Creative Interventions series. In this series, we will explore the Creative Interventions Toolkit, which provides tools, resources, and a model for community interventions in interpersonal violence. We’ll go section-by-section and talk to some of the folks whose work served as the source material for this project. You can find digital versions of the Creative Interventions Toolkit or purchase a physical copy by visiting www.creative-interventions.org. According to their website, “Creative Interventions provides vision, tools and resources to help anyone and everyone create community-based, collective respo...
2022-04-1358 min
We Form The FutureWhat Does Abolition Look Like?On episode 8 of We Form The Future, we hear from faculty in Prescott College's Social Justice and Community Organizing program about justice, police and abolitionist movements.
Derek Chauvin v. the State of Minnesota was an unexpected response to former Minneapolis Police Department Officer Derek Chauvin's killing of George Floyd. Chauvin is the first white officer in Minnesota to be charged with the death of a Black man in Minnesota. Despite the unprecedented trial, the question and pursuit of abolition remain. Across Minneapolis and across all of our communities, people are trying to imagine a just response to...
2021-06-2459 min
Haymarket Books LiveWe Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice w/ Mariame Kaba & moreCelebrate the publication of We Do This 'Til We Free Us with a discussion about prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition, seeking justice beyond the criminal punishment system, and finding hope in collective struggle for abolition, featuring contributors and organizers from the book.
What if social transformation and liberation isn’t about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In We Do This 'Til We Free Us, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle.
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Speakers: Shira Hassan, Kelly Hayes, Rachel Herzing, Mariame Kaba, Erica Meiners and Ta...
2021-03-051h 14
Haymarket Books LiveAbolition as Study and Deconstructing Racial Capitalism (9-1-20)The first in a series of Critical Conversations organized by Study and Struggle discussing prison abolition and immigrant justice.
The Study and Struggle program is the first phase of an ongoing project to organize against incarceration and criminalization in Mississippi through four months of political education and community building. Our Critical Conversations webinar series, hosted by Haymarket Books, will cover the themes for the upcoming month.
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The first webinar theme is Abolition as Study and Deconstructing Racial Capitalism and will be a conversation exploring the longstanding relationship between political study and the practice of abolition. Speakers will also discuss racial capitalism and its connection to...
2021-03-041h 45
Solidarity & Resistance7. White nationalism and the state (feat. Rachel Herzing, Kali Akuno, Carey Lamprecht, and Clare Bayard)“Over the past year we have continued to see the rampant rise of white nationalism — from their presence in the streets, to the U.S. government, to the global rise of fascism and authoritarianism. In this webinar we will discuss different strategies to contest power from ensuring voter protections, to building anti-racist movements that sustain us for the long haul. We will hear about the concrete ways white nationalist and fascist forces are collaborating and what our different roles are in defeating them. This panel will include a range of perspectives on strategy and tactics so we can better hold...
2020-10-081h 58
Yale Journal of Biology and MedicineYJBM Special Series: Racism and Health – Episode 2: Interview with Dr. Monica BellAlthough we typically cover topics that address the biomedical sciences, epidemiology, and healthcare practice, it is no secret that the systemic biases, residential segregation, violent responses to protesting, and further injustices that we see today alldrive healthcare inequality and inform the topics and methods of research/practice for our audience. In light of the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Elijah McClain, among others, we’ve decided to use our platform as an avenue of communication for esteemed researchers in the fields of policing, Law, and criminal justice. In this episode, Wes interviews Dr. Monica Bell regarding race an...
2020-08-0555 minBeyond PrisonsDylan Rodríguez, Part II: Police Accountability Is Casualty ManagementThis is the second part of our two-part conversation with Dr. Dylan Rodríguez. If you haven’t already, listen to part one. In this episode, Dylan shares a few thoughts about high profile reformers like Van Jones and the dangers of the non-profit industrial complex (NPIC). We also talk about “The Problems with Community Control of the Police and Proposals for Alternatives,” a document that Dylan co-authored with Beth Richie, Mariame Kaba, Rachel Herzing, and others. We discuss the problem with the notion of “police accountability” and why Dylan believes that it is more accurately de...
2020-08-0457 min
Yale Journal of Biology and MedicineYJBM Special Series: Racism and Health – Episode 2: Interview with Dr. Monica BellAlthough we typically cover topics that address the biomedical sciences, epidemiology, and healthcare practice, it is no secret that the systemic biases, residential segregation, violent responses to protesting, and further injustices that we see today all drive healthcare inequality and inform the topics and methods of research/practice for our audience. In light of the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Elijah McClain, among others, we’ve decided to use our platform as an avenue of communication for esteemed researchers in the fields of policing, Law, and criminal justice. In this episode, Wes interviews Dr. Monica Bell re...
2020-08-0455 min
The Library Coven33. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-GarciaHey, magical folx! In this episode we discuss Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, which is *NOT* YA. We gotta say this at the top because its some sexist bs that women/femme adult fantasy writers get miscategorized as YA (read about how sexism impacts genre categorization).
*Call to action* This fortnight, we’re urging our magical community to learn more about abolishing borders, abolishing ICE and migrant justice as well as to support organizations doing this work.
Watch/listen to the final plenary from this year’s Allied Media Conference, “From Dreams to Practice...
2020-07-2949 min
The Activist Files PodcastEpisode 28: America Disrupted - Vince-Warren and Angela Glover Blackwell Reimagine Civil RightsWhat is necessary to reimagine civil rights in America? Center for Constitutional Rights’ Executive Director Vince Warren and PolicyLinks’ Founder in Residence Angela Glover Blackwell are in conversation about what equity looks like in this moment in a special joint, cross-promoted edition of “The Activist Files” and “Radical Imagination,” the organization’s respective podcasts. Using the pandemic within a pandemic framework, Vince and Angela discuss COVID-19 and the need for police reform. They offer deep reasoning for a call for radical ideas and solutions because to reimagine civil rights requires a fundamental disruption of our nation’s foundation, from the Black/white paradigm...
2020-07-0942 min
Appointed: A Canadian Senator Bringing Margins to the CentreTransformative Justice: Healing in PlaceOn this episode of Appointed we're talking about challenging systemic marginalization by healing interpersonal harm. We ask what the role of transformative justice is in the work of decarceration and unpack the difference between restorative justice and transformative justice. We speak with James Favel, the co-founder and executive director of Bear Clan Patrol, and Rachel Herzing, the Executive Director of the Center for Political Education and an activist who has practiced transformative justice for decades.
2020-04-2957 min
Radical ImaginationPolice AbolitionAs cases of police abuse and misconduct gain attention, activists have moved beyond calls for reform to advocate for the abolition of police. It’s a controversial and widely misunderstood idea. How would police abolition work, exactly? How would we protect public safety? Radical Imagination host Angela Glover Blackwell explores these questions with humanitarian hip-hop artist Jessica Disu, a.k.a. FM Supreme, who has publicly called for police abolition. And we hear from Rachel Herzing, co-director of the Center for Political Education in Oakland, California, about the racialized history of policing and innovative community-driven alternatives for public safety.
2019-10-0628 minBeyond PrisonsPolitical Education feat. Rachel HerzingRachel Herzing joins Beyond Prisons for a conversation on political education, transformation, and more. Rachel is the co-director of Center for Political Education, a resource for political organizations on the left, progressive social movements, the working class and people of color. She has been an organizer, activist, and advocate fighting the violence of policing and imprisonment for over 20 years. She is a co-founder of Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization dedicated to abolishing the prison industrial complex. She was also the director of research and training at Creative Interventions a community resource developing interventions to...
2019-04-0456 min