‘No more police’: leading prison abolitionist Andrea Ritchie speaks at Rose Hills Theater

On Feb. 19, 5C students, parents and professors gathered at Pomona College’s Rose Hills Theatre for a talk by prison abolitionist Andrea Ritchie.  The talk, hosted by 5C Prison Abolition Collective, was based on the book “No More Police: A Case for Abolition,” which Ritchie recently co-authored with fellow abolitionist

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At Scripps conference on abolition, Kaba and Ritchie re-envision ‘a liberatory state’

Updated April 16 at 3:53 p.m. Calling for a reimagination of the carceral state, scholar-activists and abolitionists Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie convened over the weekend as part of Scripps College’s “Abolition is Feminism, Feminism is Abolition” conference.  The three-day conference was held in partnership between the 5Cs’ Intercollegiate Feminist

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