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

Title

Abolition for the people : the movement for a future without policing & prisons / edited by Colin Kaepernick.

Publication

[United States] : Kaepernick Publishing, [2021]
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302 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The former NFL star turned social activist presents 30 essays from political prisoners, grassroots organizers and scholars such as Angela Davis and Dereck Purnell that focus on the police and incarceration abolition movement.
"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 you continue to be actively complicit in the perpetuation of these systems,' Kaepernick asks in his introduction, 'or will you take action to dismantle them for the benefit of a just future?' Powered by courageous hope and imagination, Abolition for the People provides a blueprint and vision for creating an abolitionist future where communities can be safe, valued, and truly free. 'Another world is possible,' Kaepernick writes, 'a world grounded in love, justice, and accountability, a world grounded in safety and good health, a world grounded in meeting the needs of the people.' Blending rigorous analysis with first-person narratives, Abolition for the People definitively makes the case that the only political future worth building is one without and beyond police and prisons. Contributors include Angela Y. Davis, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Mariame Kaba, Robin D.G. Kelley, Bree Newsome Bass, Kiese Laymon, Kimberľ Crenshaw, Gwendolyn Woods (mother of the late Mario Woods), Derecka Purnell, Dean Spade, Dylan Rodriguez, Ruha Benjamin, and many more."--Publisher's website viewed Dec. 16, 2021.

Subject

Genre/Form

Essays.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-284).

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.

Call Number

Sc E 22-1550

ISBN

9781595911162
1595911162

LCCN

2021026116

OCLC

1277044205

Title

Abolition for the people : the movement for a future without policing & prisons / edited by Colin Kaepernick.

Publisher

[United States] : Kaepernick Publishing, [2021]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-284).

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Added Author

Kaepernick, Colin, 1987- editor.

Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944- writer of foreword.

Container of (work): Browne, Simone, 1973- Feds are watching.

Container of (work): Neal, Mark Anthony. Myth of the good cop.

Container of (work): Laymon, Kiese. My son was executed by an ideal.

Container of (work): Nopper, Tamara K. Truth about "Officer Friendly."

Container of (work): Schrader, Stuart, 1978- SWAT's paramilitary fever dream.

Container of (work): Lewis, Talila A. Disability justice is an essential part of abolishing police & ending incarceration.

Container of (work): Meiners, Erica R. Snaps!

Container of (work): Nopper, Tamara K. Schools as carceral spaces.

Container of (work): Ross, Kihana Miraya. How abolition makes schools safer.

Container of (work): Crenshaw, Kimberlé. We must center Black women.

Container of (work): Gali, Morning Star. Ongoing incarceration of California's Indigenous Peoples.

Container of (work): Spade, Dean. Queer & trans liberation requires abolition.

Container of (work): Kilgore, James William, 1947- Challenging e-carceration.

Container of (work): Jiménez Moreta, Cristina. Fight to melt ICE.

Container of (work): Farrow, Kenyon. Hidden pandemic.

Container of (work): Shoatz, Russell Maroon, 1943-2020. My father deserves to be free.

Container of (work): Loggins, Ameer Hasan. We're all living in a future created by slavery.

Container of (work): Purnell, Derecka. Reforms are the master's tools.

Container of (work): Hamilton, Derrick. No justice, no freedom.

Container of (work): Rodriguez, Dylan. Police reform as counterinsurgency.

Container of (work): Bass, Bree Newsome. Putting a black face on police agendas.

Container of (work): Benjamin, Ruha. New Jim Code.

Container of (work): Kelley, Robin D. G. Change from the roots.

Container of (work): Abu-Jamal, Mumia. Casting off the shadows of slavery.

Container of (work): Murakawa, Naomi. Three traps of police reform.

Container of (work): Wun, Connie. Survivors at the forefront of the abolitionist movement.

Container of (work): Peterson, Marlon. Who is being healed?

Container of (work): Ritchie, Andrea J. Ending the war on black women.

Container of (work): Lumumba, Rukia. We can dismantle the system at the polls, too.

Container of (work): Berger, Dan, 1981- What is & what could be.

Container of (work): Kaba, Mariame. Journey continues.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-1550

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