Justin Davis

Jan 15, 2025 | yesmagazine.org | Justin Davis

Why you can trust us On Sept. 17, 2024, hundreds of protesters swarmed the Sutter Avenue subway station in Brooklyn, New York, calling for an end to police violence on public transit and demanding free fares. Some protesters “distributed MetroCards and swiped commuters through the turnstiles,” while others hopped turnstiles before filing into subway cars. The New York Police Department arrested at least 18 people.

Sep 28, 2024 | portside.org | Justin Davis

How Pandemic-Era Prison Life Shows the Stakes of Abolition Published September 28, 2024 A few months before COVID became a permanent part of life in the U.S., the New York City Council approved a plan to shut down the infamous jail complex known as Rikers Island and replace it with four smaller facilities.

Sep 17, 2024 | popularresistance.org | Justin Davis

Above photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images. Victoria Law’s new book is an accessible primer on abolitionist theory, told through intimate stories of prison life in the pandemic. A few months before COVID became a permanent part of life in the U.S., the New York City Council approved a plan toshut down the infamous jail complexknown as Rikers Island and replace it with four smaller facilities.

Sep 17, 2024 | wagingnonviolence.org | Justin Davis

Embed from Getty ImagesA few months before COVID became a permanent part of life in the U.S., the New York City Council approved a plan to shut down the infamous jail complex known as Rikers Island and replace it with four smaller facilities. (That plan was later delayed — and city officials have since acknowledged that they likely won’t meet the plan’s legal deadline.) The vote to close Rikers Island came from years of extensive grassroots organizing by reformists and abolitionists alike.

Aug 24, 2024 | popularresistance.org | Justin Davis

Above photo: The launch of Los Angeles for All at Robinson Space in Historic Filipinotown in Los Angeles on May Day 2022. Los Angeles People’s Movement Assembly. Yvonne Yen Liu discusses efforts to build direct democracy and grassroots power in Los Angeles. Home to almost 10 million residents in 2022, Los Angeles County can sometimes seem like a vast political paradox. Known as a quintessential example of urban sprawl, it is also the most overcrowded county in America.