politics
Why I Joined DSA and the Libertarian Socialist Caucus
I have spent much of my life close to institutions that claim to protect people while controlling them.
Atma Meek
Cross-system and lived experience leader working across reentry, homelessness, behavioral health, and violence prevention. Founder of the Amparo Peacemaking Project. Writing on what it takes for systems to help people rather than process them.
Mutual Aid
Mutual Aid Means We Take Care of Each Other
There is a tendency to reduce mutual aid to food drives, free clothes, community refrigerators, or somebody passing out bottled water at a protest. All of that can absolutely be mutual aid. But if that is as far as we take it, we are missing most of the point.
Policing
Twenty-Six Minutes
Austin's budget vote begins August 12. One category of public safety spending cannot legally be reduced. The other can be cut in an afternoon.
Foundations
A Long Apprenticeship
How I Learned to Connect the Dots
Criminal Justice
Nobody Thinks They're the Villain
Violence rarely has a single cause. But almost everyone who commits it believes they had a reason — and that belief is where prevention has to begin.