We Do This 'Til We Free Us

By Naomi Murakawa, Mariame Kaba, Tamara K. Nopper

Subjects: Restorative justice, Services correctionnels communautaires, Social action, Droit, Radicalism, justice, LAW / Jurisprudence, New York Times bestseller, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice, Administration of Justice, Discrimination in justice administration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Social justice, Feminism, activism, Black lives matter movement, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies, nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2021-03-14, Relations raciales, Social movements, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, abolition, Race discrimination, Law reform, Réforme, Justice sociale, Social aspects, Community-based corrections, Race relations

Description: **A reflection on prison industrial complex abolition and a vision for collective liberation from organizer and educator Mariame Kaba.** “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.”