Index Robyn Maynard -- Chapter 1 Police Abolition/Black Revolt / Jeffrey Monaghan -- Chapter 2 A History of Toronto Activism against Anti-Blackness / Ruth Nortey -- Chapter 3 Police Use of Force in Canada: Dispelling the Myth of Difference / Julius Haag -- Chapter 4 Defund to Abolish: A 400-Year Struggle against Policing in Montreal / Defund the Police Coalition (Montreal) -- Chapter 5 Against the Social Harms of Policing / Kevin Walby -- Chapter 6 Let's Talk about Police in Our Unions: An Abolitionist Approach to Decent Work for All / Ryan Hayes -- Chapter 7 We Keep Each Other Safe: Organizing for Prison Abolition during a Pandemic / Jessica Evans, Alannah Fricker, and Rajean Hoilett -- Chapter 8 Canada is a Bad Company: Police as Colonial Mercenaries for State and Capital / Shiri Pasternak -- Chapter 9 A Brief Introduction to Anti-colonial Abolition / Free Lands Free Peoples -- Chapter 10 Grassroots Justices: Lessons from Communities of Murdered and Disappeared Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit+ People / Vicki Chartrand -- Chapter 11 Narratives on Carceral Abolition: Tami Starlight, Moka Dawkins, and Anonymous as told to the P4W Memorial Collective / Linda Mussel -- Chapter 12 Sex Worker Justice - by Us, for Us: Toronto Sex Workers Resisting Carceral Violence / Ellie Ade Kur and Jenny Duffy on behalf of Maggie's Toronto Sex Workers Action Project -- Chapter 13 DIY Defunding the Police: How Winnipeg Sex Workers Stopped the Police from Taking Drivers' Money / Sex Workers of Winnipeg Action Coalition -- Chapter 14 Rights Not Rescue: Defending Migrant Sex Workers from Policing / Elene Lam and Chanelle Gallant -- Chapter 15 No Police at Overdoses / Nicole Marie Burton and Hugh D.A. Goldring -- Chapter 16 Troubling Police and Social Work Collaborations / Ann De Shalit, Adrian Guta, Camisha Sibblis, Emily van der Meulen, and Jijian Voronka -- Chapter 17 Abolishing Carceral Social Work / Edward Hon-Sing Wong, MJ Rwigema, Nicole Penak, and Craig Fortier -- Chapter 18 We Are Like Waves / Kikelola Roach -- Chapter 19 Police Abolition/Black Revolt / Robyn Maynard -- Notes -- Contributions -- Index
Summary:
"Canadian laws are just, the police uphold the rule of law and treat everyone equally, and without the police, communities would descend into chaos and disorder. These entrenched myths, rooted in settler-colonial logic, work to obscure a hard truth: the police do not keep us safe. This edited collection brings together writing from a range of activists and scholars, whose words are rooted in experience and solidarity with those putting their lives on the line to fight for police abolition in Canada. Together, they imagine a different world--one in which police power is eroded and dissolved forever, one in which it is possible to respond to distress and harm with assistance and care."-- Provided by publisher.
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