Minneapolis, May 2020
George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American, dies of suffocation by police. A wave of protests, unprecedented since the 1960s, is gripping the country. Demonstrations, mobilizations on social networks, looting: the singularity of this movement is as much due to its scale as to the radicality of its proposals.
It is no longer a question of denouncing the excesses of the police institution, but of questioning its very existence. Defund and Abolish the Police, dismantle the police and their funding, are slogans which, seen from France, can seem very abstract.
However, they are part of the history of the struggle of Black people against slavery and mass incarceration. They are also embodied in experiences of transformative justice, community solidarity, feminist self-defense and care.
By translating several texts written in the United States over the last ten years, this collection aims as much to document as to transmit this new abolitionism: living without police.
The PDF of the book is now available with open access:
The 5 parts of the book:
1° The George Floyd uprising
https://abolirlapolice.org/CHAPTER 1.pdf
-2° From slavery to Black Power
https://abolirlapolice.org/CHAPTER2.pdf
3° Police: impossible reform
https://abolirlapolice.org/CHAPTER3.pdf
4° The abolitionist movement today
https://abolirlapolice.org/CHAPTER4.pdf
5° Feminism and abolitionism
https://abolirlapolice.org/CHAPTER5.pdf
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