![]() ![]() Purnell details how multi-racial social movements rooted in rebellion, risk-taking, and revolutionary love pushed her and a generation of activists toward abolition. Calling them felt like something, and something feels like everything when the other option seems like nothing. She saw too much sexual violence and buried too many friends to consider getting rid of police in her hometown of St. In Becoming Abolitionists, Derecka Purnell draws from her experiences as a lawyer, writer, and organizer initially skeptical about police abolition. Millions of people continue to protest police violence because these “solutions” do not match the problem: the police cannot be reformed. ![]() From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day. V (formerly Eve Ensler) author of The Vagina Monologues and The Apologyįor more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. It’s a radiant and practical blueprint for the new world.” ![]() If you read any book this year – read this. ![]() As Derecka makes clear, abolition is not just about firing cops and closing prisons it’s about eliminating the reasons people think they need them. “For those skeptics of abolition, this brilliant, revolutionary book will take you on a breathtaking journey to the other side.
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