Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Abolition (Part 2)
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You Want to Know the Story of the Death on My Family
My cousin was a member of the black panther party for self defence. And he and bunchy carter were mown down by bullets in a fight in campbell hall on the u. C l a campus in january of 19 69. What they had been fighting for that day, and the reason they died wat they were students, as well as panthers. All of that made me an abolitionist. Other abolitionists can tell you their stories. We all came together not because we thought the people in prison were innocent, but because we knew that prison wasn't solving the problems that we and our communities were struggling to resolve. The is that wouldn't bring my cousin back.
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