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Feb 2024
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1087 || Are Prisons Obsolete? || Angela ...

JULIE MERICA
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if it hasn't been clear by now, Angela Y. Davis is one of my favorite writers and humans to follow when it comes to revolutionary thinking and theory. This book: are prisons obsolete, was 128 pages of information that we should all have in our back pocket - since it affects each and every one of us in some way or another. it's all connected, and Angela Y. Davis has a knack for reminding me of that while also telling me what to do with that, to improve it for all of us.


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buy the book: https://www.akpress.org/areprisonsobsolete.html

or get from library? https://www.overdrive.com/media/586899/are-prisons-obsolete

pdf copy? https://theanarchistlibrary.org/mirror/a/ay/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf



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