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The Thurman Perry Foundation Founder and Executive Director, Gabrielle Perry, MPH, wrote an opinion piece featured in Scalawag Magazine discussing the modern day abolition movement. In it, she details the connection between historical abolition movements during American chattel slavery to today’s movement to abolish mass incarceration and the police state.
“A world without police and the systemic and oppressive violence they inflict is not impossible. The requirement of abolitionists and non-abolitionists alike is to commit themselves to possibility. The possibility that police are not necessary for every role we currently associate them with. The possibility that community is our strongest weapon against violence. The possibility that seeing each other through the lens of empathy—not racism, sexism, ableism, and other debilitating pillars that currently uphold and insist upon the carceral state’s existence—could change the world. ” -Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH
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Founded in memory of late U.S. Army Master Sergeant Thurman Perry Jr., The Thurman Perry foundation was created by his daughter, Gabrielle Perry, MPH, to support women and girls impacted by incarceration. We are a 501c(3) nonprofit organization. EIN 86-2519876.
