Once upon a time, abolition in its modern sense was an obscure concept that only a handful of organizers and agitators knew about and dreamed of. But in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, abolition has stepped into the mainstream.
You’ve probably heard plenty of explanations about what abolition is and why people do or don’t support it. So rather than repeat definitions or commonly held arguments, we decided to go straight to Abinaya Ilavarasan (she/her), Tori Hong (she/they), and Tri Vo (he/they/she), three organizers who are working in ways big and small to abolish police, ICE, prisons, and more structural harms. We ask them why they do the work they do, what abolition means to them, and what the future of abolition work could look like for our communities.
This series is made in collaboration with Buddhist Justice Reporter, with support from the Minneapolis Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citizenship at Macalester College. Music by Lesfm via Pixabay and Small Million.
"The River of Time”, used by Tori Hong in this podcast, is a concept coined and shared by Cori Nakamura Lin.

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