Brick by Brick
Community Cradle
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From the publisher
A vital community resource for those who dream of building a just, caring, prison-free society.
The fight for prison abolition is a struggle for collective liberation: a transformative vision of a safer world, in which communities live free from exploitation on a thriving planet.
Drawing connections across social justice movements with a shared abolitionist ethic, this revolutionary book illuminates how harmful ideas of criminality and punishment can manifest in many ways beyond the prison industrial complex. This work is a collaboration with friends, mentors and giants fighting for housing justice, food justice, climate justice, migrant justice, justice for survivors of violence, and more.
With this insightful and generous book, Cradle Community invites us to explore what it will take to dismantle structures of oppression, and to imagine the future we can rebuild together—brick by brick.
‘A starting point for anyone interested in learning more about abolition.’ — gal-dem
‘Dismantling the carceral state ... means building a better society ... where migrants are not criminalised, where there is food and housing justice and where healthcare and education are decolonised. … [An] important contribution[] to the conversation on the steps needed to begin the journey [to abolition].’ — Labour Hub
‘A warm invitation … When Cradle write, they are speaking to you and me about our responsibilities to one another and to building a world that is life-affirming.’ — Lola Olufemi, author of Experiments in Imagining Otherwise and Feminism, Interrupted