Abolition for the people the movement for a future without policing & prisons /

"Abolition for the People brings together thirty essays representing a diversity of voices--political prisoners, grassroots organizers, scholars, and relatives of those killed by the anti-Black terrorism of policing and prisons. This collection presents readers with a moral choice: "Will y...

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Other Authors: Kaepernick, Colin, 1987- (Editor), Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944- (writer of foreword.), Browne, Simone, 1973-, Neal, Mark Anthony, Laymon, Kiese, Nopper, Tamara K., Schrader, Stuart, 1978-, Lewis, Talila A., Meiners, Erica R., Ross, Kihana Miraya, Crenshaw, Kimberlé, Gali, Morning Star, Spade, Dean, Kilgore, James William, 1947-, Jiménez Moreta, Cristina, Farrow, Kenyon, Shoats, Russell, Loggins, Ameer Hasan, Purnell, Derecka, Hamilton, Derrick, Rodriguez, Dylan, Bass, Bree Newsome, Benjamin, Ruha, Kelley, Robin D. G., Abu-Jamal, Mumia, Murakawa, Naomi, Wun, Connie, Peterson, Marlon, Ritchie, Andrea J., Lumumba, Rukia, Berger, Dan, 1981-, Kaba, Mariame
Format: Book
Published: [United States] : Kaepernick Publishing, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
  • Editors' preface: A journey to safer futures / Colin Kaepernick, Connie Wun, and Christopher Petrella
  • Foreword: Believe in new possibilities / Angela Y. Davis
  • Introduction: A future worth building / Colin Kaepernick
  • The Feds are watching: a history of resisting anti-black surveillance / Simone Browne
  • The myth of the good cop: pop culture helped turn police officers into rock stars--and black folks into criminals / Mark Anthony Neal
  • My son was executed by an ideal: a conversation with Gwendolyn Woods / as told to Kiese Laymon
  • The truth about "Officer Friendly" / Tamara K. Nopper
  • SWAT's paramilitary fever dream: when police play soldier, everybody loses / Stuart Schrader
  • Disability justice is an essential part of abolishing police & ending incarceration / Talila A. Lewis
  • Snaps!: collective (queer) abolition organizing created this moment / Erica R. Meiners
  • Schools as carceral spaces / Tamara K. Nopper
  • How abolition makes schools safer: funneling our children from classrooms to cages ends now / Kihana Miraya Ross
  • We must center black women: Breonna Taylor and bearing witness to black women's expendability / Kimberlé Crenshaw
  • Stolen freedom: the ongoing incarceration of California's indigenous peoples / Morning Star Gali
  • Queer & trans liberation requires abolition / Dean Spade
  • Challenging e-carceration: abolition means no digital prisons / James Kilgore
  • The carceral state / Tamara K. Nopper
  • The fight to melt ICE: why we're fighting for a world without ICE / Cristina Jiménez Moreta and Cynthia Garcia
  • The hidden pandemic: prisons are a public health crisis--and the cure is right in front of Us / Kenyon Farrow
  • The long grip of mass incarceration / Tamara K. Nopper
  • My father deserves to be free: a son's fight for his father's freedom / Russell "Maroon" Shoatz and Russell Shoatz III
  • We're all living in a future created by slavery / Ameer Hasan Loggins
  • Reforms are the master's tools: the system is built for power, not justice / Derecka Purnell
  • No justice, no freedom: criminal justice reform cost me 21 years of my life / Derrick Hamilton
  • Police reform as counterinsurgency: how reformist approaches to police Violence expand police power and legitimate the next phase of domestic warfare / Dylan Rodríguez
  • The extent of carceral control / Tamara K. Nopper
  • Three traps of police reform / Naomi Murakawa
  • Putting a black face on police agendas: black cops don't make policing any less anti-black / Bree Newsome Bass
  • The new Jim Code: the shiny, high-tech wolf in sheep's clothing / Ruha Benjamin
  • Change from the roots: what abolition looks like, from the Panthers to the people / Robin D. G. Kelley
  • Casting off the shadows of slavery: lessons from the first abolition movement / Mumia Abu-Jamal
  • Survivors at the forefront of the abolitionist movement / Connie Wun
  • Who is being healed?: creating solutions is about answering questions prisons never asked / Marlon Peterson
  • Ending the war on black women: building a world where Breonna Taylor could live / Andrea J. Ritchie
  • Bankrolling the carceral state / Tamara K. Nopper
  • We can dismantle the system at the polls, too / Rukia Lumumba
  • What is & what could be: the policies of abolition / Dan Berger and David Stein
  • The journey continues: so you're thinking about becoming an abolitionist / Mariame Kaba.