Defend/Defund : a visual history of organizing against the police

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Defend/Defund : a visual history of organizing against the police / Interference Archive ; edited by Brooke Darrah Shuman, Jen Hoyer, and Josh MacPhee.

Shuman, Brooke Darrah, (editor.). Hoyer, Jen, (editor.). MacPhee, Josh, (editor.). Interference Archive, (author.).

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"In 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. Far from a brief moment in history, the summer of 2020 was a resurgence of a movement that stretches to the beginning of this country's inception. Defend/Defund presents a sweeping and poignant history of how communities have responded to the violence of white supremacy and carceral systems in the United States--told through interviews, archival reproductions, and narrative--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 100 full-color images, including archival materials produced by Emory Douglas from the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, the Young Lords, CopWatch, the Stolen Lives Project, the Movement for Black Lives, Project NIA, and INCITE! Defend/Defund shows how contemporary organizing against the police and for community safety builds on powerful Black feminist and abolitionist movements from the past and imagines alternatives to policing for our present"--page 4 of cover.

Defend / Defund 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. Featuring full-color reproduction of archival materials, the narrative includes transcripts of interviews with activists, scholars, and artists such as: Mariame Kaba, Dread Scott, Dennis Flores, Dr. Joshua Myers, Jawanza Williams (VOCAL-NY and Free Black Radicals), Cheryl Rivera (NYC-DSA Racial Justice Working Group and Abolition Action), and Bianca Cunningham (Free Black Radicals).

Record details

ISBN: 1942173881
ISBN: 9781942173885
Physical Description: 164 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Brooklyn, NY ; Common Notions, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:: Introduction -- Legacies of violence -- Self-defense -- Living under disinvestment: whose streets? Our streets! -- Interview with Mariame Kaba -- Attempts at reform -- Interview with Dennis Flores -- Eyes on the state -- Interview with Dread Scott -- Naming the problem: pig nation -- The Black worker and police brutality -- Riot! -- Queer resistance -- Fighting for demilitarization -- Cultural organizing -- Interview with Dr. Joshua Myers -- Imagining an abolitionist future -- Occupy City Hall/Abolition Park 2020.

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Subject:: Police abolition movement > United States.
Police brutality > United States > History.
Police-community relations > United States.
Discrimination in law enforcement > United States.
Police misconduct.
Police abolition movement.
Genre:: Zines.
Interviews.

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Interference Archive is a community-supported archive of material from social movements around the world, created with a mission to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, and screenings, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements.

Brooke Darrah Shuman is a video producer at More Perfect Union covering labor and workers' rights. Her video and writing has appeared in HuffPost, Bon Appétit, The New Yorker and the Southern Foodways Alliance. She is a volunteer at Interference Archive, an open stacks archive of political movement material, where she has worked on exhibitions on antifascism in the United States and disability/crip activism.

Jen Hoyer is a librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology and has volunteered on collections, exhibitions, and education projects at Interference Archive since 2013. Her writing about the intersections of education, archives, and social movement history is available in The Social Movement Archive (Litwin Books, 2021) and What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom (Libraries Unlimited, 2022).

Josh MacPhee has been collaboratively making, researching, and collecting political art for over twenty years. In 2011, he cofounded the Interference Archive, a library, exhibition, event, and research space in Brooklyn dedicated to the exploration of social movement culture. He is also a member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, and the author/editor of multiple books including Celebrate People's History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution (Feminist Press, 2010 and 2020), An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels (Common Notions, 2019), and Graphic Liberation: Perspectives on Image Making and Political Movements (Common Notions, 2023). His solo exhibition We Want Everything was hosted by the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2022.

Interviews with Mariame Kaba, Dread Scott, Dennis Flores, Dr. Joshua Myers, Jawanza Williams (VOCAL-NY and Free Black Radicals), Cheryl Rivera (NYC-DSA Racial Justice Working Group and Abolition Action), and Bianca Cunningham (Free Black Radicals).

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