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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaepernick, Colin, 1987- editor.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alternatives to imprisonment--United States.

Alternatives to imprisonment.

Prison abolition movements--United States.

Prison abolition movements.

Civil rights movements--United States.

Civil rights movements.

Prison-industrial complex--United States.

Prison-industrial complex.

Police misconduct--United States.

Police misconduct.

Police brutality--United States.

Police brutality.

African Americans--Violence against.

African Americans.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

Police--United States.

Police.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[United States] : Kaepernick Publishing, [2021]

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, Kimberlé 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.

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 IIIrTamara K. Nopper 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-284).

Contains:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Container of: Meiners, Erica R. Snaps!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Container of: Farrow, Kenyon. Hidden pandemic.

Container of: Shoats, Russell. My father deserves to be free.

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

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

Container of: Hamilton, Derrick. No justice, no freedom.

Container of: Rodriguez, Dylan. Police reform as counterinsurgency.

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

Container of: Benjamin, Ruha. The new Jim Code.

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

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

Container of: Murakawa, Naomi. Three traps of police reform.

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

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

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

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

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

Container of: Kaba, Mariame. Journey continues.

ISBN:

9781595911162

1595911162

OCLC:

1277044205