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Hey, my name is Peter Kamau Mukuria, currently incarcerated here at Red Onion State Prison in the state of Virginia, Virginia supermax prison. But anyway, so this commentary is regarding a quote from Ruth Wilson Gilmore and it's about abolition. And in this quote, I found--  the quote is not only powerful but I shared this quote with another comrade of mine. And the response was almost equally as powerful to which he compelled me to share this quote and see what you can make out of it. The quote by Ruth Wilson Gilmore goes like this: abolition requires that we change one thing, which is everything; abolition is not absence; it is presence; what the world will become already exists in fragments and pieces, experiments and possibilities. So those who feel in their gut deep anxiety the abolition means knock it all down, scorch the earth and start something new, let that go. Abolition is building the future from the present in all the ways that we can. Now in response to this quote I shared with a comrade, their