ABOLITION
JOURNAL


EVERYDAY SH!T: THE PILOT ISSUE

  1. Editors’ Notes: On Direction & On Poetry | Christopher R. Rogers and Gabriel Ramirez
  2. Abolition is a Brick: On the Origins of the Du Bois Movement School | Geo Maher
  3. The High School Lunch Table Reimagined | David A. Gaines
  4. Relearning the Language of Care | Alexandrea Henry
  5. Tossed About the Room | Tongo Eisen-Martin
  6. From Abolition School to Palestine | Farwa Zaidi in convo w/ Nneka Azuka & Talia Charidah
  7. Movement Moments: PAO Rally Speech | Nneka A.
  8. protest | Raina J. León
  9. The Kids | Alyesha Wise
  10. All (Purchasing) Power to the People | Saskia Kercy
  11. (communique #1) | S. R. Lalo
  12. From Intention to Liberation | Abbas Naqvi
  13. Standardized Test | Taylor Alyson Lewis
  14. The New Republic of Kindergarten | Hiwot Adilow
  15. Lost Lady. Found Niece. | Kiian Dawn
  16. Holding the Jagged Edges | Shantell Missouri
  17. Prison Radio Suite x Abolition Journal |  Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, KnowledgeBorn GodAllah, Krystal Clark, & Spoon Jackson
  18. “Ultimately, What Any of Us Want is Structural Change” | No Arena in Chinatown x Abolition Journal Roundtable
  19. Healing “Body & Soul” | Jake Sonnenberg of Healthcare Workers for Abolition
  20. Abolition Starts at Home | frenchy, Han & zara of the The Philly Childcare Collective
  21. Maximizing Study & Struggle between Haiti and Philadelphia | Talie Cerin & James Beltis x Woy Magazine
  22. Migrant Justice, Border Abolition & The Resistance of Now | Sterling K. Johnson in convo w/ Viktoria Zerda
  23. Movement Life-in-the-Along & the Grand (Re)Vision of Abolition Journal | Christopher R. Rogers

ONLINE EXTENDED CONTENT: 

  1. Everyday Acts of Disabled Resistance & Care | Philly Breathes





(communique #1) | S.R. LALO                                                                        
the english translation of Eduardo Galeano's « Días y
noches de amor y de guerra » begins with an
epigraph from Karl Marx:
"In history, as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life"


below this
a sparrow balances on the brim
of a hat, how curious to
wonder the blessing of its song
what joys and sorrows does this
inked thing breathe into life

upon arming himself, George Jackson 
proclaimed, "Gentlemen, the Dragon 
has come" 
what joys and sorrows our teachers 
breathe into life in death 
their teachings carry spikes, the incantation the 
weapons which puncture                cut               bleeds—

COMMUNIQUE FROM THE
BLACK HOLE

contradictions sharpen... our
teachers have spoken in
word & bullet

develop
recognize what exists
DEVELOP THE ALTERNATIVE

D E F E N D

CONDITIONS SHARPEN WE
MUST CUT THE OCCUPIER
THE SETTLER COLLABORATOR PIG—

¡mira mira!
the empire fights to stay alive
the fronts of war
extraction
capital demands

blood, labor time, horror
vendidos take their crumbs like
a dog eating shit
grin
knock the fuckers teeth out


we are children of clay,
Sun, river, and fire
so dance cousin, and
sharpen your blade






S.R. Lalo is a poet, playwright, and anticolonial flojo. they’re trying to do better, towards our horizons and between them. the new world is here, we must join the fight to defend it. free the land, from west philly to palestine