Channel: The Grapevine

Category: News & Politics

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Description: Following the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the topics of abolishing or defunding the police have been the subject of public debate. What does police abolishment look like? What are the benefits to Black people if the police are abolished? Check out what the panelists had to say & be sure to keep the conversation going by leaving us comments here on YouTube and on twitter at @thegrapevinetv! Use the hashtags, #hearitfresh & #thegrapevinetv!!! DONATE TO OUR PATREON FOR EXCLUSIVE EPISODES! patreon.com/thegrapevinetv READING LISTS!!! FROM ASHLEY SAWYER: docs.google.com/document/d/1YolqYk8OXBycAXvx97ysGyxSaIaUWIatWp_EFHH3EDA/edit FROM DA'SHAUN: -Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Abolitionists -The Struggle Continues and Consciencism, both by Kwame Nkrumah -The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson -Die Nigger Die! by H Rap Brown/Jamil Al-Amin -As Black As Resistance by Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson -Black Skin, White Masks and Wretched of the Earth, both by Frantz Fanon -Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Kwame Ture -Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris -Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault -Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones by Carole Davies -Beyond Containment by Claudia Jones -Sojourning For Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism -Fumbling Towards Repair by Mariame Kaba -Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Marie Brown -Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and Beyond Survival, both by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha -Turn This World Inside Out -Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis Donate to the Grapevine bit.ly/2lZD1o7 Instagram: instagram.com/thegrapevinetv Twitter: twitter.com/thegrapevinetv Creator / Executive Producer - Ashley Akunna Producer/Editor - Amanda Scott Strategic Producer - Donovan Thompson PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!