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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Mayed: This is indeed a war zone, not a university

Mayed: This is indeed a war zone, not a university

January 18, 2023

To all of the students who barely make it through the cracks, holding on for dear life: “… you are enough  your work is enough you are needed your work is sacred you are here and...

Mayed: De-carcerating peer support, an abolitionist perspective

Mayed: De-carcerating peer support, an abolitionist perspective

November 10, 2022

We engage in peer support all the time, often out of necessity — as a fugitive act. Peer support can be life-saving and life-preserving, a disruption to the death-making institutions constantly working...

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Q&A: Northwestern librarian creates abolition research guide

January 23, 2022

Northwestern English and Digital Humanities Librarian Josh Honn compiled a research guide on the abolition of the prison industrial complex, inspired by the NU Community Not Cops protests in 2020 as well...

Nevo: Carceral feminism cannot save me

Nevo: Carceral feminism cannot save me

September 30, 2021

Content warning: This story contains mentions of sexual assault and drugging.  At Sunday night’s protest after students reported they were drugged at two separate on-campus Alpha Epsilon Pi and Sigma...

A photo of Crowe Hall, where the Council for Race and Ethnic Studies is situated, behind a cloudy blue sky. There is a tree with no leaves, bushes and a plot of green grass in front of the building that consists of light beige bricks and dark windows.

Activists and scholars imagine a world without police and prisons at “Abolitionist Futures” speaker event

May 6, 2021

On the sixth anniversary of Chicago’s reparations ordinance, local activists and scholars discussed police abolition, collective approaches to community organizing and healing from state violence in...

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