We Do This ‘Til We Free Us

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New York Times Bestseller “Organizing is both science and art. It is

thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your

targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned

about how you’re going to actually build power in order to be able to push

your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the

way that you want to.” What if social transformation and liberation isn’t

about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary

people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely

collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work

of abolition and transformative political struggle. With a foreword by

Naomi Murakawa and chapters on seeking justice beyond the punishment

system, transforming how we deal with harm and accountability, and finding

hope in collective struggle for abolition, Kaba’s work is deeply rooted in

the relentless belief that we can fundamentally change the world. As Kaba

writes, “Nothing that we do that is worthwhile is done alone.”