Becoming Abolitionists

Becoming Abolitionists

By
Derecka Purnell
Derecka Purnell
2021 • 288 pages

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Education in Times of Chaos

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We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
I Who Have Never Known Men
Study for Obedience
Death in Her Hands
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The Argonauts

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Abolition

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We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Becoming Abolitionists
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

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Justice

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On Repentance and Repair
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Restorative Justice: Critical Issues
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Are Prisons Obsolete?

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Social Justice

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Anti Racism

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Organizing

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Racism And Colonialism

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Policing

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Policing the Black Man
The History of Policing America: From Militias and Military to the Law Enforcement of Today
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Prison Abolition

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Prison Industrial Complex

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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Profit and Punishment
Queer

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Abolitionism

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The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress
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abolition / community building

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