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Hannah Kass

Hannah Kass

Geographer and abolitionist organizer focused on Black ecologies, environmental justice, and the prison-industrial complex. Earned her PhD in Geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; her work traces how movements for land sovereignty and prison abolition intersect — most recently through the Stop Cop City fight in the Weelaunee Forest. Her writing has appeared in Antipode, the Boston Review, Truthout, and Pinko, among others.

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Publications “Trees give life. Police take it”: Building and Fighting for Abolitionist Life-Worlds, from the Weelaunee Forest to Georgia’s Jails
Abstract: DeKalb County, Georgia has been mired in a struggle to defend its forest against the development of a militarised police training facility known as “Cop City”. Drawing on...