Police/Prisons

Ellie Ade Kur and Abby Stadnyk are grassroots organizers with abolitionist politics. They are also both involved in Disarm,...
  • Edmonton police at headquarters -- image by Mack Male via Wikimedia
At least five people were killed by Canadian police or died through police actions in March 2022. This follows a February in...
  • Poster for Honour Their Names. Fist holding feather in red
March 15 is the International Day Against Police Brutality, a day of action and solidarity against the violence of policing. It...
  • Calgary police emblem on police vehicle.
At least nine people were killed by Canadian police or died through police actions in February 2022. This follows a January in...
Martha Paynter and Frédérique Chabot have each spent a lot of years doing a lot of different kinds of grassroots political work...
  • York Regional Police vehicle
Canadian police started 2022 in the same bloody fashion they ended 2021. At least eight people were killed by police or died...
  • Image of the entrance to the South West Detention Centre
The late Peter Collins, who as a prisoner was a key Prison Justice Day organizer, stated: “There is no natural death in prison.”...
  • RCMP officers in dress uniforms
Canadian police were involved in the deaths of at least 104 people in 2021. This includes people who they actively killed, by...
  • Police car with "End Gang Life" painted on it.
Police are an invention of capitalist social war—what is sometimes called the war of class against class. Policing is the...
  • Toronto Police Services vehicle. Photo: David Gray-Donald
With a month left in the year, at least 96 people have been killed by Canadian cops or died through the actions of police in 2021...

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