Today we are discussing Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing and Prisons, an anthology edited by Colin Kaepernick. We are joined by two contributors from this collection, Bree Newsome Bass and Kiese Laymon. Bree is a filmmaker and activist, and is best know for climbing the flagpole at the South Carolina Capitol building to remove the confederate flag. Kiese is an author (Heavy, Long Division) and writer, and a dear friend of this podcast. On the episode we talk about what it means to be an abolitionist, contradictions, and the trouble with reform.
The Stacks Book Club selection for October is Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan, we will discuss the book with October 27th on Nichole Perkins.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find everything we talked about on Amazon.
- Abolition for the People edited by Colin Kaepernick
- Heavy by Kiese Laymon
- Long Division by Kiese Laymon
- “Bree Newsome removes the Confederate battle flag from Statehouse in 2015” (Post and Courier, Youtube)
- Colin Kaepernick
- “After the Shooting: A Year in the Life of Gwen Woods” (Jaeah Lee, The California Sunday Magazine)
- Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Angela Davis
- Derecka Purnell
- Mariame Kaba
- “Ep. 179 Imaging Better with Derecka Purnell” (The Stacks)
- “Ep. 167 Disrupting the Systems that Cage Us with Marlon Peterson” (The Stacks)
- Trayvon Martin
- Johnathan Ferrell
- Rodney King
- “Marc and Mariame Kaba discuss Mariame’s book; We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice” (Coffee and Books, Embassy Row)
- “When It Costs $53,000 to Vote” (Jesse Wegman, The New York Times)
- “Governor Cooper Vetoes Harsh Anti-Protest Legislation” (ACLU North Carolina)
- “Federal appeals court temporarily reinstates Texas’ 6-week abortion ban” (Ashley Lopez, NPR)
- Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror (Netflix)
- “The Power Of Purpose: How Promise Is Using Technology To Solve The Epidemic Of Mass Incarceration” (Afdhel Aziz, Forbes)
- Jay-Z
- Appolition (Fast Company)
- “Congressional Democrats criticized for wearing Kente cloth at event honoring George Floyd” (Alicia Lee, CNN)
- Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Purnell
- Bull Connor
- Lori Lightfoot
- Bird Uncaged by Marlon Peterson
- Dr. Ruha Benjamin
- “Boston Dynamics’ robodog Spot did a little halftime dance for NCAA fans” (Adam Rosenberg, Mashable)
- Black Mirror (Netflix)
- Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church Shooting in Charleston, NC
- Clementa C. Pinckney
- Freddie Gray
- Walter Scott
- Cherry Garcia
- Ben & Jerry’s
- Cape Cod Sweet & Spicy Jalapeño
- Clint Smith
- “Ep. 168 Embodying History with Clint Smith” (The Stacks)
- The Black Woman edited by Toni Cade Bambara
- We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariam Kaba
- The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist
- Tamara K. Nopper
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