Talking About Abolition
Language: English
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Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: Jan 7, 2025
Description:
Powerful interviews with scholars, organizers, and activists who are leading the movement to end policing and prison.
Award-winning journalist Kolhatkar presents a visionary outlook for a future rooted in liberation, freedom, and justice.
Abolitionist thinkers have been envisioning police-free communities for decades, but only in the aftershock of the racial justice uprisings of 2020 have their radical ideas entered into mainstream discourse. In Talking About Abolition, award-winning journalist Sonali Kolhatkar presents an inspiring collection of her conversations with scholars, movement figures, and activists who are leading the movement to end policing and prisons. From articulating the best counter-arguments to pervasive “copaganda,” to exposing the moral bankruptcy of reformism, each conversation connects the dots between past and present while imagining a collective future rooted in liberation, freedom, and justice.
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