We Do This 'Til We Free Us
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We Do This 'Til We Free Us
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A reflection on prison industrial complex abolition and a vision for collective liberation from organizer and educator Mariame Kaba.
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 Kabaβs 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.
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.
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