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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
On 18 January 2023, police killed an environmental activist and land defender named Tortuguita. Tortuguita had been occupying the Weelaunee forest in DeKalb County, Georgia when Ge...