LESSONS FROM MINNEAPOLIS:ABOLITIONISM AND COMMUNITY DEFENSE STRATEGIES

ABOLICIONISMO MIGRANTE E ESTRATÉGIAS DE DEFESA COMUNITÁRIA

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https://doi.org/10.22409/sgbf9h22

Abstract

This article analyzes the political and historical dimensions of the emerging migrant abolitionist movement in the United States, focusing on community responses to federal crackdowns in Minneapolis. The construction of parallel mutual aid infrastructures is part of a transnational insurgent genealogy, revealing a reverse flow movement, influenced by other references such as the community forms of the Bolivian highlands and resistance to the genocide of Native Americans. Current community defense, expressed through rapid response networks, legal observation, and patrols, organically connects to the abolitionist vigilance committees of the 19th century, the Black Panthers' patrols, the popular uprising after George Floyd, and the reactivation of the AIM's indigenous guards. Minneapolis constitutes a microcosm where historical and global struggles converge, forging an abolitionist political horizon that questions not only deportation agencies but the very border architecture of the nation-state.

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Author Biographies

  • Julio da Silveira Moreira, UNILA

    Professor at the Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (UNILA), where he works in the fields of Constitutional Law, Public International Law, and Latin American Studies. Permanent faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Latin American Studies. He coordinates Editora da UNILA (EDUNILA) and the Research Group on New Latin American Constitutionalism and Decolonization of Law (GPNOVOCONS).

     

  • Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, Saint Mary's College of California

    Professor de Estudos Étnicos no Saint Mary's College of California. Foi anteriormente Professor Visitante de Direitos Humanos e Justiça Social na Universidade Nacional de Taiwan e Fellow no Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) da Universidade de Stanford. Foi também Diretor Executivo do National Lawyers Guild (NLG) em São Francisco e presidente da Associação Americana de Juristas (AAJ) nos EUA. É cofundador do Tribunal Internacional de Consciência dos Povos em Movimento (TICPM) e da iniciativa Witness at the Border.

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Published

2026-02-11

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Ahead of print

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