Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

Derecka Purnell and Thomas Mariadason speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. The 2020 uprisings against police violence opened a new horizon for many people. In this session, Derecka Purnell details how multi-racial social movements rooted in rebellion, risk-taking, and revolutionary love pushed her and a generation of activists toward abolition, and what the new systems that work to address the root causes of violence and harm in society could do. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on Soundcloud for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks