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★★★★★ 4.63 • Goodreads

Genre

Subgenres

  • Prison Abolition
  • Transformative Justice
  • Organizing Manual

Tags

  • Abolitionist Advocacy
  • Grassroots Organizing
  • Policy Alternatives
  • Restorative Practices
  • Intersectional Analysis
  • Call to Action
  • Accessible Essays
  • Moral Clarity

Finished Worse Than a Lie by Ben Crump angry, validated, ready for more—here's the grassroots organizing playbook with We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Righteous anger → practical organizing toolkit
  • Essays & interviews = bite-sized propulsive hits
  • Real alternatives to punishment, not just outrage
  • Grassroots strategies that amplify courtroom wins

You finished Worse Than a Lie angry and validated—now Mariame Kaba shows you what comes after the lawsuit. We Do This 'Til We Free Us channels that same moral clarity into bite-sized essays and interviews that refuse euphemism, name harm plainly, and hand you the organizing playbook Crump's courtroom victories couldn't deliver. Where Ben Crump documented the wound and won the case, Kaba maps the grassroots pressure, mutual aid networks, and restorative alternatives that turn righteous fury into durable, community-led change.

Where Crump won the case, Kaba maps the grassroots pressure...

This isn't theory—it's the on-the-ground companion to litigation, written with populist urgency and zero dilution. Kaba centers Black lives, validates grief, and gives you concrete next steps so outrage becomes collective power.

Where Crump won the case, Kaba maps the grassroots pressure that turns fury into durable change.

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What Readers Are Saying

"Just incredible... this tackles so many different topics and is such a clear call about how to organize... the section about transformative justice in particular is incredible... I really just want to thrust this book at every person I know and demand they read it..." Ai Miller, Goodreads
"This is an incredibly powerful and politically useful book...Kaba's work is invaluable and she is setting the ground for a better world...Her pieces about her own organizing work...are incredibly insightful and will certainly be instructive for abolitionists like me..." Nicole Froio, Goodreads
"Kaba is brilliant, and has a huge heart... Her ideas are visionary, useful, and most of all, necessary. The words ring clear as a bell." Giulia Goldston, Goodreads

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