{"product_id":"abolition-for-the-people-the-movement-for-a-future-without-policing-and-prisons-paperback","title":"Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing and Prisons - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eColin Kaepernick\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by activist and former San Francisco 49ers super bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick, \u003cem\u003eAbolition for the People\u003c\/em\u003e is a manifesto calling for a world beyond prisons and policing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolition for the People\u003c\/em\u003e 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?\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePowered by courageous hope and imagination, \u003cem\u003eAbolition for the People\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolition for the People\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending rigorous analysis with first-person narratives, \u003cem\u003eAbolition for the People\u003c\/em\u003e definitively makes the case that the only political future worth building is one without and beyond police and prisons. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbolition for the People includes contributions from Mumia Abu-Jamal; Bree Newsome Bass; Ruha Benjamin; Simone Browne; Dan Berger; Kimberl馥acute; Crenshaw; Angela Davis; Kenyon Farrow; Morning Star Gali; Cynthia Garcia; Derrick Hamilton; Mariame Kaba; Colin Kaepernick; Robin D. G. Kelley; James Kilgore; Evan Lamberg; Kiese Laymon; Talila A. Lewis; Ameer Loggins; Rukia Lumumba; Erica Meiners; Christina; Jim駭ez Moreta; Naomi Murakawa; Mark Anthony Neal; Tamara Nopper; Marlon Peterson; Christopher Petrella; Derecka Purnell; Dylan Rodr?acute;guez; Andrea Ritchie; kihana miraya ross; Stuart Schrader; Russell Shoatz III; Russell \"Maroon\" Shoatz; Dean Spade; David Stein; Gwen Woods; and Connie Wun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eColin Kaepernick\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Super Bowl quarterback and \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author who fights oppression globally. He founded the Know Your Rights Camp, which advances the liberation and well-being of Black and Brown people through education, self-empowerment, mass-mobilization, and the creation of new systems that elevate the next generation of change leaders. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52732759703859,"sku":"9781642599633","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/bLDPyPFv9a9781642599633.webp?v=1763906389","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/abolition-for-the-people-the-movement-for-a-future-without-policing-and-prisons-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}