New Book by Sonali Kolhatkar
Abolitionist thinkers have been envisioning police-free communities for decades, but only in the aftershock of the racial justice uprisings of 2020 have their radical ideas entered into mainstream discourse.
In Talking About Abolition, award-winning journalist Sonali Kolhatkar presents an inspiring collection of her conversations with scholars, movement figures, and activists who are leading the movement to end policing and prisons.
From articulating the best counter-arguments to pervasive “copaganda,” to exposing the moral bankruptcy of reformism, each conversation connects the dots between past and present while imagining a collective future rooted in liberation, freedom, and justice.
TALKING ABOUT ABOLITION is available at sevenstories.com and wherever fine books are sold.
Interviews:
The Progressive Page Turner, WSLR-FM in Sarasota Florida, KBOO Fm in Portland, Oregon and KTWH in Minnesota
Interview with Marianne Barisonek, March 15, 2025
Defunding the Police and Abolition as Forms of Democracy
Interview with Chuck Mertz, January 14, 2025.