We Do This 'Til We Free Us
Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
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Publisher Description
New York Times Bestseller
“Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you’re going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you want to.”
What if social transformation and liberation isn’t about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle.
With a foreword by Naomi Murakawa and chapters on seeking justice beyond the punishment system, transforming how we deal with harm and accountability, and finding hope in collective struggle for abolition, Kaba’s work is deeply rooted in the relentless belief that we can fundamentally change the world. As Kaba writes, “Nothing that we do that is worthwhile is done alone.”
Customer Reviews
So refreshing and hopeful
So many big takeaways from this. I walk away with a clear view of what abolition is, tips for supports good “reform”, ways of evaluating reform, soooo many wonderful essays that gives lens into many perspective of this topic (women in CJ, history of CJ, Restorative Justice, Transformational Justice, etc)