{"product_id":"talking-about-abolition-a-police-free-world-is-possible-paperback","title":"Talking about Abolition: A Police-Free World Is Possible - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSonali Kolhatkar\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePowerful interviews with scholars, organizers, and activists who are leading the movement to end policing and prison. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAward-winning journalist Kolhatkar presents a visionary outlook for a future rooted in liberation, freedom, and justice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbolitionist thinkers have been envisioning police-free communities for decades, but only in the aftershock of the racial justice uprisings of 2020 have their radical ideas entered into mainstream discourse. In \u003ci\u003eTalking About Abolition, \u003c\/i\u003e award-winning journalist Sonali Kolhatkar presents an inspiring collection of her conversations with scholars, movement figures, and activists who are leading the movement to end policing and prisons. From articulating the best counter-arguments to pervasive \"copaganda,\" to exposing the moral bankruptcy of reformism, each conversation connects the dots between past and present while imagining a collective future rooted in liberation, freedom, and justice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing interviews with Alicia Garza, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Leah Penniman, Gina Dent, Cat Brooks, Andrea Ritchie, Eunisses Hernandes, Noelle Hanrahan, Ivette Al?-Ferlito, Melina Abdullah, Reina Sultan, and Dylan Rodriguez, and with an introduction by Robin D. G. Kelley.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSONALI KOLHATKAR\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning multimedia journalist. She is the racial justice editor at YES! Magazine and the host of \u003ci\u003eYES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali\u003c\/i\u003e, a weekly television and radio program that airs on Free Speech TV and Pacifica Radio stations and affiliates around the United States. Sonali is a senior correspondent of the Economy For All Project at the Independent Media Institute and the author of \u003ci\u003eRising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice\u003c\/i\u003e. She has won numerous awards, including Best TV Anchor and Best National Political Commentary from the LA Press Club, and has been nominated for Best Radio Anchor four years in a row. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSonali earned her MS in Astronomy from the University of Hawaii, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. She resides with her husband and two sons in Pasadena, California. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eROBIN D.G. KELLEY\u003c\/b\u003e is the Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA and author of many books including \u003ci\u003eAfrica Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times \u003c\/i\u003e(Harvard University Press, 2012); \u003ci\u003eThelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original\u003c\/i\u003e (Free Press, 2009); \u003ci\u003eFreedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e (Beacon, 2002).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.7 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53756863480141,"sku":"9781644214350","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/6DWmbaZmlx9781644214350.webp?v=1776754640","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/talking-about-abolition-a-police-free-world-is-possible-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}