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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: [United States] : Kaepernick Publishing, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
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  • unmediated
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ISBN:
  • 9781595911162
  • 1595911162
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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.
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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Edited by activist and former San Francisco 49ers super bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Abolition for the People is a manifesto calling for a world beyond prisons and policing.

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."

The complexity of abolitionist concepts and the enormity of the task at hand can be overwhelming. To help readers on their journey toward a greater understanding, each essay in the collection is followed by a reader's guide that offers further provocations on the subject.

Newcomers to these ideas might ask: Is the abolition of the prison industrial complex too drastic? Can we really get rid of prisons and policing altogether? As writes organizer and New York Times bestselling author Mariame Kaba, "The short answer: We can. We must. We are."

Abolition for the People begins by uncovering the lethal anti-Black histories of policing and incarceration in the United States. Juxtaposing today's moment with 19th-century movements for the abolition of slavery, freedom fighter Angela Y. Davis writes "Just as we hear calls today for a more humane policing, people then called for a more humane slavery." Drawing on decades of scholarship and personal experience, each author deftly refutes the notion that police and prisons can be made fairer and more humane through piecemeal reformation. As Derecka Purnell argues, "reforms do not make the criminal legal system more just, but obscure its violence more efficiently."

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.

You won't find all the answers here, but you will find the right questions--questions that open up radical possibilities for a future where all communities can thrive.

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-284).

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.

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