Why This Book Matters
Mariame Kaba offers a vision of abolition rooted in care, transformation, and community. We Do This 'Til We Free Us brings together essays, interviews, and reflections that challenge the logic of policing and incarceration while pointing toward real alternatives for safety and accountability.

For nonprofit leaders, educators, youth workers, and public health advocates, this book is more than theory. It is a roadmap for designing programs, campaigns, and institutions that center healing instead of punishment. Kaba makes it clear that abolition is not just about dismantling systems—it is about building new ones rooted in trust, mutual aid, and collective care.

This book is ideal for those working in housing, education, youth development, or public health who are reimagining justice and building systems of support within marginalized communities. It speaks directly to those navigating how to hold harm without recreating carceral logic, and how to lead from a place of love and accountability rather than fear and control.

We Do This 'Til We Free Us is both a challenge and an offering. It invites readers to move from reaction to imagination, and from compliance to courageous experimentation.