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ALC Court Watch Releases Docket Report #02
ALC's Court Watch Program has released their second docket report, illuminating the maintenance of racial apartheid thru arrest and cash bail in Allegheny County. The group demands the end of police sovereignty and pushes for pre-trial freedom and open courts.
No Police. Statement from ALC, 04-22-2021
This verdict is a testament to the political force of the masses, of colonized peoples, in the face of state-sanctioned terror...but our challenge is not to pursue the conviction of one racist cop. Our challenge is to carry out the total dissolution of police and racial capitalism — to manifest the unfinished project of absolute freedom, to sustain and live out Abolition.
ALC Releases Report on PA Office of the Victim Advocate, Highlighting Office's Pro-Retribution History, Calls for New OVA Appointee to be Advocate for All Victims
February 15, 20201 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: William Lukas, Abolitionist Law Center, wjlukas@alcenter.org Dolly Prabhu, Abolitionist Law Center, dprabhu@alcenter.org PITTSBURGH – The Abolitionist Law Center has published a report on Pennsylvania's Office of the Victim Advoc...
ALC Court Watch celebrates end of first year, releases statement on abolishing cash bail.
January 6, 2021 We seek the abolition of cash bail in Allegheny County — and everywhere else in the US colonial project. We believe cash bail contributes to a violent system of apartheid policing and punishment, and exacerbates economic precarity and poverty by governance thru debt. We re...