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Aug 31, 2021
A World Without Police - Interview w/ Geo Maher
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We’re joined by Geo Maher, author of the new book A World Without Police to explore the origins of policing in North America, the very real and very dangerous hold that policing us on government and society. Maher tells us that the path towards abolition and not reform is not only realistic, but necessary, if we hope to build a more safe and secure society for all.

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A World Without Police by Geo Maher

About A World Without Police

Tens of millions of people poured onto the streets for Black Lives Matter, bringing with them a wholly new idea of public safety, common security, and the delivery of justice, communicating that vision in the fiery vernacular of riot, rebellion, and protest. A World Without Police transcribes these new ideas—written in slogans and chants, over occupied bridges and hastily assembled barricades—into a compelling, must-read manifesto for police abolition.

Compellingly argued and lyrically charged, A World Without Police offers concrete strategies for confronting and breaking police power, as a first step toward building community alternatives that make the police obsolete. Surveying the post-protest landscape in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Oakland, as well as the people who have experimented with policing alternatives at a mass scale in Latin America, Maher details the institutions we can count on to deliver security without the disorganizing interventions of cops: neighborhood response networks, community-based restorative justice practices, democratically organized self-defense projects, and well-resourced social services.

A World Without Police argues that abolition is not a distant dream or an unreachable horizon but an attainable reality. In communities around the world, we are beginning to glimpse a real, lasting justice in which we keep us safe.

About Geo Maher

Geo Maher has previously taught at Vassar College, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas. He is the author of five books, including We Created ChavezDecolonizing DialecticsBuilding the CommuneSpirals of Revolt, and World Without Police.

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