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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaepernick, Colin, 1987- author.

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.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Kaepernick Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Editors' Preface: A Journey to Safer Futures

Foreword: Believe in New Possibilities

Introduction: A Future Worth Building

The Feds Are Watching: A History of Resisting Anti-Black Surveillance

The Myth of the Good Cop: Pop Culture Helped Turn Police Officers Into Rock Stars-And Black Folks Into Criminals

My Son Was Executed by an Ideal

The Truth About "Officer Friendly"

SWAT's Paramilitary Fever Dream: When Police Play Soldier, Everybody Loses

Disability Justice Is an Essential Part of Abolishing Police & Ending Incarceration

Snaps!: Collective (Queer) Abolition Organizing Created This Moment

Schools as Carceral Spaces

How Abolition Makes Schools Safer: Funneling our Children from Classrooms to Cages Ends Now

We Must Center Black Women: Breonna Taylor and Bearing Witness to Black Women's Expendability

Stolen Freedom: The Ongoing Incarceration of California's Indigenous Peoples

Queer & Trans Liberation Requires Abolition

Challenging E-Carceration: Abolition Means No Digital Prisons

The Carceral State

The Fight to Melt ICE: Why We're Fighting for a World Without ICE

The Hidden Pandemic: Prisons Are a Public Health Crisis-and the Cure Is Right in Front of Us

The Long Grip of Mass Incarceration

My Father Deserves to Be Free: A Son's Fight for His Father's Freedom

We're All Living in a Future Created by Slavery

Reforms Are the Master's Tools: The System Is Built for Power, Not Justice

No Justice, No Freedom: Criminal Justice Reform Cost Me 21 Years of My Life

Police Reform as Counterinsurgency: How Reformist Approaches to Police Violence Expand Police Power and Legitimate the Next Phase of Domestic Warfare

The Extent of Carceral Control

Three Traps of Police Reform.

Putting a Black Face on Police Agendas: Black Cops Don't Make Policing Any Less Anti-Black

The New Jim Code: The Shiny, High-Tech Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Change from the Roots: What Abolition Looks Like, from the Panthers to the People

Casting Off the Shadows of Slavery: Lessons from the First Abolition Movement

Survivors at the Forefront of the Abolitionist Movement

Who Is Being Healed?: Creating Solutions Is About Answering Questions Prisons Never Asked

Ending the War on Black Women: Building a World Where Breonna Taylor Could Live

Bankrolling the Carceral State

We Can Dismantle the System at the Polls, Too

What Is & What Could Be: The Policies of Abolition

The Journey Continues: So You're Thinking About Becoming an Abolitionist

Notes

Resource Guide

Glossary

About the Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781595911216

1-59591-121-9

OCLC:

1281958493

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.