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Abolition Democracy : Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Open Media Series)
Angela Yvonne Davis
Seven Stories Press
Paperback
9781583226957
2005
$15.95
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Yvonne Davis
$15.95
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Rattling the Cages: A Collection of Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners
Josh Davidson (Editor), Sara Falconer, Angela Yvonne Davis (Foreword), and Sara Falconer (Introduction)
$28.00
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Abolition. Feminism. Now
Angela Yvonne Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie
$16.95
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Yvonne Davis
$15.95
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Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur and Angela Yvonne Davis (introduction)
$18.95
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Sybille Titeux de la Croix, Amazing Ameziane, and Angela Yvonne Davis (subject)
$24.99
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Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA
Frances Goldin (editor), Debby Smith (editor), Michael Smith (editor), Michael Moore, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Angela Yvonne Davis, Joel Kovel, Michael Ratner, Richard D. Wolff, and Frances Fox Piven
$15.99
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (Vintage)
Angela Yvonne Davis
$18.00
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Art on the Frontline: Mandate for a People´s Culture: Two Works Series Vol. 2
Angela Yvonne Davis, Tschabalala Self (Contributor), and Amber Husain (Editor)
$18.00
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If They Come In The Morning
Angela Yvonne Davis (Editor)
$19.95
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Women, Race & Class
Angela Yvonne Davis
$17.00
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Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Angela Yvonne Davis
$22.95
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Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
Angela Yvonne Davis
$19.95
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Women, Culture, & Politics
Angela Yvonne Davis
$17.95
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Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia: A Graphic Biography
Nick Thorkelson and Angela Yvonne Davis (Foreword)
$15.95
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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
Andrea Ritchie and Angela Yvonne Davis (introduction)
$21.00
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Another Politics: Talking across Today's Transformative Movements
Chris Dixon and Angela Yvonne Davis (Forword)
$27.95
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The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (City Lights Open Media)
Angela Yvonne Davis and Robin D. G. Kelley
$15.95
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The Case for Sanctions Against Israel
Audrea Lim, Omar Barghouti, Naomi Klein, Ilan Pappe, Slavoj Zizek, Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, Merav Amir, Hind Awwad, Mustafa Barghouthi, Dalit Baum, Joel Beinin, John Berger, Angela Yvonne Davis, Nada Elia, Marc H. Ellis, Noura Erakat, Neve Gordon, Ran Greenstein, Ronald Kasrils, Jamal Khader, and Paul Laverty
$29.95
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Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America
Carla Blumenkranz (Editor), Keith Gessen (Editor), Mark Greif (Editor), Sarah Leonard (Editor), Sarah Resnick (Editor), Nikil Saval, Eli Schmitt, Astra Taylor, Judith Butler, Angela Yvonne Davis, Jodi Dean, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Zolt\xe1n Gluck, Elizabeth Gumport, Doug Henwood, Christopher Herring, Svetlana Kitto, L. A. Kauffman, Kung Li, Audrea Lim, Manissa Maharawal, Thomas Paine, Marco Roth, Marina Sitrin, Rebecca Solnit, Stephen Squibb, Sunaura Taylor, and Alex Vitale
$14.95
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The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind
Safiya Bukhari (author), Laura Whitehorn (editor, introduction), Mumia Abu-Jamal (introduction), and Angela Yvonne Davis (introduction)
$15.95
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: A New Critical Edition by Angela Y. Davis (City Lights Open Media)
Frederick Douglass and Angela Yvonne Davis
$14.95
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117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law
Ruth First and Angela Yvonne Davis (Introduction)
$15.00
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Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA
Mumia Abu-Jamal and Angela Yvonne Davis
$22.95
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Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden And the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century)
Catherine Fosl and Angela Yvonne Davis (Foreword)
$26.95
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Visions Of Peace And Justice: San Francisco Bay Area: 1974-2007. Over 30 Years Of Political Posters From The Archives Of Inkworks Press
Angela Yvonne Davis, Inkworks Press, and Lincoln Cushing
$30.00
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The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Bl ack Americans and Politics in America Today
Wahneema Lubiano, Angela Yvonne Davis, and Toni Morrison
$17.95
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Women, Culture & Politics
Angela Yvonne Davis
$15.95
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Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Beverly Guy-Sheftall (editor), Johnnetta Betsch Cole (epilogue), Florence "Flo" Kennedy (contributor), Patricia Hill Collins (contributor), June Jordan (contributor), Michele Wallace (contributor), Pearl Cleage (contributor), Angela Yvonne Davis (contributor), Barbara Smith (contributor), and Combahee River Collective (contributor)
$24.95
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The Angela Y. Davis Reader (Blackwell Readers)
Joy James (editor) and Angela Yvonne Davis
$48.95
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Clara Zetkin: Selected Writings
Clara Zetkin and Angela Yvonne Davis (foreword)
$18.00
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Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Angela Yvonne Davis
$16.00
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Policing the National Body: Race, Gender and Criminalization
Anannya Bhattacharjee and Angela Yvonne Davis
$18.00
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De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
Elizabeth Martinez and Angela Yvonne Davis (foreword)
$18.00
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Prisons and policing
Beat the Heat : How to Handle Encounters with Law Enforcement
Katya Komisaruk
$20.00
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Discipline & Punish : The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault
$18.00
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Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor
Tara Herivel and Paul Wright
$25.95
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Slave Patrols : Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas (Harvard Historical Studies)
Sally E. Hadden
$31.00
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Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison
Paula C. Johnson
$25.00
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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (American Crossroads)
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
$28.95
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The New Abolitionists: (Neo)slave Narratives And Contemporary Prison Writings (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race)
Joy James
$32.00
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Big Prisons, Big Dreams: Crime and the Failure of America's Penal System (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)
Michael Lynch
$31.95
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Prison, Inc.: A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private Prison (Alternative Criminology)
K.C. Carceral and Thomas Bernard
$27.00
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Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir
Stanley Tookie Williams, Tavis Smiley, and Barbara Becnel
$19.00
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Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (Revised Edition)
Kristian Williams (Author) and Andrea Ritchie (Introduction)
$22.00
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The Real Cost Of Prisons Comix
Craig Gilmore, Lois Ahrens, Kevin Pyle, Sabrina Jones, Susan Willmarth, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore
$14.95
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Race, Incarceration, and American Values (Boston Review Books)
Glenn C. Loury
$15.00
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Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City
Marilynn S. Johnson
$28.00
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Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
Rickie Solinger, Paula C. Johnson, Martha L. Raimon, Tina Reynolds, and Ruby Tapia
$32.00
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Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (New edition 2008)
Christian Parenti
$21.95
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Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration
Tara Herival and Paul Wright
$19.95
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Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America
Anne-Marie Cusac
$27.00
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The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order
Bernard E. Harcourt
$21.00
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Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse
Annette Fuentes
$16.95
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Why are So Many Black Men in Prison?
Demico Boothe
$14.00
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On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Alice Goffman
$16.00
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Upper Bunkies Unite: And Other Thoughts on the Politics of Mass Incarceration
Andrea James
$20.00
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Inside this Place, Not of it: Narratives from Women's Prisons
Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi
$16.00
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Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
Victor M. Rios
$24.00
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The Eternal Criminal Record
James B. Jacobs
$39.95
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Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control
Amy E. Lerman and Vesla M. Weaver
$27.50
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Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship
Charles R. Epp, Steven Maynard-Moody, and Donald P. Haider-Markel
$25.00
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Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
Devah Pager
$16.00
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The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America
Marie Gottschalk
$37.99
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Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality
Juliet Ash
$30.00
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Prisons of Poverty
Loïc J. D. Wacquant
$20.00
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Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-industrial Complex
Julia Sudbury
$52.00
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Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire
Robert Perkinson
$24.00
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Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
Loïc Wacquant
$29.00
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Punishment and Inequality in America
Bruce Western
$17.95
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Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison
Nell Bernstein
$26.95
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Locked Up, But Not Locked Down: A Guide to Surviving the American Prison System
Ahmariah Jackson and I. Atomic
$14.95
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Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better
Maya Schenwar (Author)
$18.95
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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Johann Hari (Author)
$18.00
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Who Are the Criminals?: The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan
John Hagan
$22.95
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Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment
Hadar Aviram
$32.00
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Appealing to Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic
Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness
$36.00
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Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism
Andrew Dilts
$35.00
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Escape to Prison: Penal Tourism and the Pull of Punishment
Michael Welch
$34.95
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Criminalized Mothers, Criminalizing Mothering
Joanne Minaker
$35.00
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Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York's Notorious Jail
Mary E. Buser
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Incarceration Nations: In Search of Justice in Prisons Around the World
Baz Dreisinger
$27.95
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Ferguson Is America: Roots of Rebellion
Jamala Rogers
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Up in Here: Jailing Kids on Chicago's Other Side
Mark Dostert
$19.00
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Parental Incarceration and the Family: Psychological and Social Effects of Imprisonment on Children, Parents, and Caregivers
Joyce A. Arditti
$26.00
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Imprisonment Worldwide: The Current Situation and an Alternative Future
Andrew Coyle, Helen Fair, Jessica Jacobson, and Roy Walmsley
$18.00
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Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States
Maya Schenwar, Joe Macare, and Alana Yu-Lan Price
$18.00
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Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown
Lezley McSpadden
$26.95
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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
Andrea Ritchie and Angela Yvonne Davis (introduction)
$21.00
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Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State
Stephen Dillon
$23.95
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The First Civil Right: Race and the Rise of the Carceral State
Naomi Murakawa
$43.99
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A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America
Ernest Drucker
$26.95
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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Radley Balko (Author)
$19.99
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
$18.99
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Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
Victoria Law and Laura Whitehorn (Introduction)
$20.00
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Felon: Poems
Reginald Dwayne Betts
$15.95
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Yvonne Davis
$15.95
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Abolishing prisons and police
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (American Crossroads)
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
$28.95
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Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex
The CRIO Publications Collective and The CR10 Publications Collective
$15.95
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Elizabeth Hinton
$22.00
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23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-term Solitary Confinement
Keremat Reiter
$32.50
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Abolishing Carceral Society (Abolition: a Journal of Insurgent Politics)
Abolition Collective
$20.00
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Beyond Survival
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ejeris Dixon
$18.00
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The First Civil Right: Race and the Rise of the Carceral State
Naomi Murakawa
$43.99
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The End of Policing
Alex Vitale
$19.95
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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
Dorothy Roberts
$32.00
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Talking About Abolition: A Police-Free World is Possible
Sonali Kolhatkar
$16.95
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Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing
Stuart Schrader
$29.95
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Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law, and Michelle Alexander (Foreword)
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Yvonne Davis
$15.95
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Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Derecka Purnell
$18.00
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When Freedom Is the Question, Abolition Is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberation
Bill Ayers
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