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We Do This 'Til We Free Us

Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
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We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba offers a compelling exploration of abolitionist principles, drawing attention to the possibilities of transformative justice. The book combines essays, interviews, and speeches to question the necessity of the current penal system, advocating for a vision of collective care and genuine community safety. By focusing on grassroots organising and actionable solidarity, Kaba encourages readers to imagine and work towards a world without reliance on policing and imprisonment.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in transformative justice and abolitionist perspectives. It offers insightful essays and reflections that challenge conventional ideas about policing and incarceration, encouraging readers to imagine new ways of ensuring safety and justice. If you're passionate about social change and community-led solutions, this could be a compelling read for you.

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A reflection on prison industrial complex abolition and a vision for collective liberation from organizer and educator Mariame Kaba.

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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."

Series: Abolitionist Papers

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We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba is highly acclaimed as a pivotal work in abolitionist literature. Reviewers praise it for spotlighting abolition as both a visionary concept and a practical endeavour, illustrating it through essays, interviews, and speeches that illuminate the possibilities for societal transformation. Many regard Kaba’s work as foundational, arguing that her insights and urgent call for change resonate deeply with those committed to creating a world free of carceral systems.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781642595253

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 February 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Haymarket Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Tamara K. Nopper
  • Foreword by Naomi Murakawa
  • Edited by Tamara Nopper

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 240

About the Author

Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame is currently a researcher at Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, a project she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018.
Mariame has co-founded multiple other organizations and projects over the years including We Charge Genocide, the Chicago Freedom School, the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women, Love & Protect, the Just Practice Collaborative and Survived & Punished.
about the impacts of incarceration on children and families.

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