Is We Do This 'Til We Free Us (2021) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 93 / 100 (very WOKE (left-wing)). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Book by Mariame Kaba, Tamara K. Nopper, Naomi Murakawa, 2021.
21 votes: 90% WOKE, 10% CHUD.
Why: Abolitionist argument against policing and prisons
**A reflection on prison industrial complex abolition and a vision for collective liberation from organizer and educator Mariame Kaba.** “Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you’re going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you want to.” What if social transformation and liberation isn’t about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely coll…