1. Improvising on Reality: The Roots of Prison Abolition

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. List of Abbreviations: North American Leftist Organizations in the 1970s xi
5. Introduction: Exploding Limits in the 1970s 1
6. PART ONE. Insurgency
7. 1. Improvising on Reality: The Roots of Prison Abolition 21
8. 2. Sick of the Abuse: Feminist Responses to Sexual Assault, Battering, and Self-Defense 39
9. 3. “The Struggle Is for Land!”: Race, Territory, and National Liberation 57
10. 4. Canada’s Other Red Scare: The Anicinabe Park Occupation and Indigenous Decolonization 77
11. PART TWO. Solidarity
12. 5. “A Line of Steel”: The Organization of the Sixth Pan-African Congress and the Struggle for International Black Power, 1969–1974 97
13. 6. How Indigenous Peoples Wound Up at the United Nations 115
14. 7. “Hit Them Harder”: Leadership, Solidarity, and the Puerto Rican Independence Movement 135
15. 8. Unorthodox Leninism: Workplace Organizing and Anti-Imperialist Solidarity in the Sojourner Truth Organization 155
16. PART THREE. Community
17. 9. Play as World-making: From the Cockettes to the Germs, Gay Liberation to DIY Community Building 177
18. 10. “We Want Justice!”: Police Murder, Mexican American Community Response, and the Chicano Movement 195
19. 11. Rising Up: Poor, White, and Angry in the New Left 214
20. 12. The Movement for a New Society: Consensus, Prefiguration, and Direct Action 231
21. 13. Hard to Find: Building for Nonviolent Revolution and the Pacifist Underground 250
22. 14. “The Original Gangster”: The Life and Times of Red Power Activist Madonna Thunder Hawk 267
23. Notes on Contributors 285
24. Index 289