Abolition for the People - The Movement for a Future without Policing & Prisons

Edited by activist and former San Francisco 49ers super bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Abolition for the People is a manifesto calling for a world beyond prisons and policing.

Abolition for the People brings together thirty essays representing a diversity of voices-political prisoners, grassroots organizers, scholars, and relatives of those killed by the anti-Black terrorism of policing and prisons. This collection presents readers with a moral choice: -Will you continue to be actively complicit in the perpetuation of these systems,- Kaepernick asks in his introduction, -or will you take action to dismantle them for the benefit of a just future?-

Powered by courageous hope and imagination, Abolition for the People provides a blueprint and vision for creating an abolitionist future where communities can be safe, valued, and truly free. -Another world is possible,- Kaepernick writes, -a world grounded in love, justice, and accountability, a world grounded