A sweeping and poignant history of community response to the
violence of white supremacy and carceral systems in the US, told
through interviews, archival reproductions, and narrative. In the
summer of 2020, the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and
Tony McDade ignited a movement that led to the largest street
protests in American history. Abolitionist grassroots organizers
around the country unified around a clear demand: defund the police
and refund our communities. While the majority of the country
supported the call to reform the police, what followed was a
backlash from mainstream politicians and the press, all but
defeating the movement to end the continued violence against Black
Americans. Defend / Defund examines the history of how
communities have responded to the violence of white supremacy and
carceral systems in the United States and asks what lessons the
modern abolitionist movement can draw from this past. Organized in
a series of thematic sections from the use of self-defense by Black
organizers, to queer resistance in urban spaces, the narrative is
accompanied by over one hundred full-color images including
archival materials produced by Emory Douglas, the Black Panther
Party for Self-Defense and the Young Lords in the 1960s and 70s,
CopWatch and the Stolen Lives Project in the 1980s and 1990s, and
contemporary material from the Movement for Black Lives, Project
NIA, and INCITE!, Defend / Defund shows how deep the struggles for
abolition go and how urgent they remain.  In addition
to full-color reproduction of archival materials, the narrative
includes transcripts of interviews with activists, scholars, and
artists such as Mariame Kaba, Dread Scott, Dennis Flores, Dr.
Joshua Myers, Jawanza Williams (VOCAL-NY and Free Black Radicals),
Cheryl Rivera (NYC-DSA Racial Justice Working Group and Abolition
Action), and Bianca Cunningham (Free Black Radicals). Each
conversation dives into the history of specific struggles with, and
organizing against, police and police brutality. In total,
the publication shows how the modern Defund movement builds on
powerful Black feminist and abolitionist movements past and
imagines alternatives to policing for community safety for our
present.
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