Why Become a Supporter: Your donation allows us to provide legal, educational, and civic support to the individuals and communities we serve in DC, and our tribes throughout the country. The HWD community is built on the voices, resources, and spirit of the dedicated, impassioned, and selfless. Progress of any kind requires a contribution of any size.  

Your support helps us keep the train moving. 

Who Are We: We are a Black-led abolitionist community defense hub centering all Black lives at risk for state-sanctioned violence in the Greater Washington area.

What We Do: Our work includes legal empowerment, political and civic education, mass protest, organizing campaigns, and community care that builds alternatives to oppressive systems.

Why Abolition: As prison abolitionists, we are fighting for a world where the response to social problems does not include prisons, policing, prosecution, or any form of surveillance, supervision, or incarceration. These systems of punishment rely on, reinforce, and perpetuate structures of oppression; white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, xenophobia, ableism, and heterosexism. We aim to undermine and abolish these systems, not reform them.