{"product_id":"9798889840794","title":"Reimagining the Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eThese are the architects of the modern civil rights movement: 4 profiles of revolutionary groups making change beyond protest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA radically different approach to sustaining social justice movements—4 strategies for abolition and liberation from the new architects of the modern civil rights movement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMany of us think, I don’t support the police. But what should take their place?\u003c\/i\u003e Or: \u003ci\u003ePrisons don’t keep us safe. But what new systems could?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lot of books about racial justice ask us how we got here, but \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReimagining the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is different: award-winning journalist and activist Paula Lehman-Ewing presents an inside-access look at the activists redefining where we \u003ci\u003ego\u003c\/i\u003e from here. Readers will hear from:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIvan Kilgore\u003c\/b\u003e, an incarcerated activist who founded the 501c3 nonprofit United Black Family Scholarship Foundation from behind prison walls\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCritical Resistance\u003c\/b\u003e, one of the oldest grassroots organizations in the nation working to dismantle the prison-industrial complex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe co-founders of \u003cb\u003eGreenwood\u003c\/b\u003e, a Black-owned financial technology institution designed specifically for Black and Latino people and businesses: \u003cb\u003eMichael Render, \u003c\/b\u003eaka\u003cb\u003e Killer Mike, Amb. Andrew Young and Ryan Glover\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncarcerated activist \u003cb\u003eHeshima Denham\u003c\/b\u003e on his grassroots efforts to build a society for Black and Brown people independent of the state \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Movement for Black Lives, the Alliance for Safety and Justice, BYP 100\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003e8toAbolition\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIncarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists\u003c\/b\u003e using art to heal from trauma, connect with other incarcerated people, and amplify abolitionist change\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLehman-Ewing frames each profile within two fundamental truths: The current system—built and sustained by oppression, extraction, and inequity by design—cannot be reformed. And, knowing this, we need abolition; we need creative solutions designed by the people most impacted by the systems they fight to change.\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e Reimagining the Revolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a call to action for each of us: if we can access the tools we have, we can dream bigger, think outside the box, and follow the paths laid out by change-making activists toward nothing short of revolution.","brand":"Paula Lehman-Ewing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48035573956820,"sku":"9798889840794","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_9a05b4a0-d8cb-498f-a416-c7e7168fdb96.jpg?v=1780357246","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9798889840794","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}