Radical Healing, Abolition and Popular Education

“Getting Free of the Cage Within” is a short animation video that offers a framework denouncing the colonial and white supremacist roots of our current carceral “democracy” and its painful traumatizing impact in our communities while calling us to commit to processes for radical healing centered in dignity and community. The video is offered as a tool to provoque dialogue and action among individuals, communities and organizations working to abolish the current corrupt system and to promote our right to heal and be free. It was developed by Pancho Argüelles during his Community Building Power fellowship at the Community Justice Exchange in collaboration with animation artist Río Castañeda.