{"product_id":"defend-defund-a-visual-history-of-organizing-against-the-police-9781942173885","title":"Defend \/ Defund: A Visual History of Organizing Against the Police","description":"\u003cb\u003eA sweeping and poignant history of community response to the violence of white supremacy and carceral systems in the US, told through interviews, archival reproductions, and narrative.\u003c\/b\u003eIn the summer of 2020, the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade ignited a movement that led to the largest street protests in American history. Abolitionist grassroots organizers around the country unified around a clear demand: defund the police and refund our communities. While the majority of the country supported the call to reform the police, what followed was a backlash from mainstream politicians and the press, all but defeating the movement to end the continued violence against Black Americans. \u003ci\u003eDefend \/ Defund\u003c\/i\u003e examines the history of how communities have responded to the violence of white supremacy and carceral systems in the United States and asks what lessons the modern abolitionist movement can draw from this past. Organized in a series of thematic sections from the use of self-defense by Black organizers, to queer resistance in urban spaces, the narrative is accompanied by over one hundred full-color images including archival materials produced by Emory Douglas, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and the Young Lords in the 1960s and 70s, CopWatch and the Stolen Lives Project in the 1980s and 1990s, and contemporary material from the Movement for Black Lives, Project NIA, and INCITE!, \u003ci\u003eDefend \/ Defund\u003c\/i\u003e shows how deep the struggles for abolition go and how urgent they remain. In addition to full-color reproduction of archival materials, the narrative includes transcripts of interviews with activists, scholars, and artists such as \u003cb\u003eMariame Kaba\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eDread Scott\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eDennis Flores\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eDr. Joshua Myers\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eJawanza Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (VOCAL-NY and Free Black Radicals), \u003cb\u003eCheryl Rivera\u003c\/b\u003e (NYC-DSA Racial Justice Working Group and Abolition Action), and \u003cb\u003eBianca Cunningham\u003c\/b\u003e (Free Black Radicals). Each conversation dives into the history of specific struggles with, and organizing against, police and police brutality. In total, the publication shows how the modern Defund movement builds on powerful Black feminist and abolitionist movements past and imagines alternatives to policing for community safety for our present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Common Notions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781942173885\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Interference Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43271990935733,"sku":"9781942173885","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_31dd7e8b-a9e8-4bc9-80ae-2427cc226918.jpg?v=1699959495","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/defend-defund-a-visual-history-of-organizing-against-the-police-9781942173885","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}