LIT: BAM Book Club! Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves

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Doors at 6:15 pm

Talk 6:30-7:30

$5-10 suggested donation

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In order to deepen our knowledge about policing and sharpen understandings of abolition, we will have 2 discussions about this critical new book by Stuart Schrader. No prior knowledge necessary, just read the book and come chat about it!

Come on July 22 to discuss the first half of the book, and then again on August 5 to discuss the second half, or just come to one discussion. Anyone is welcome.

Pick up a copy of the book at Red Emma’s to support Schrader’s wonderful work, or fill out this form if you need a free copy: tinyurl.com/BAM-book-club. Please use the same link to RSVP.

“In America today, police enjoy unmatched power. On the streets, officers employ violence at their own discretion. Behind closed doors, they are even more powerful… Yet as recently as fifty years ago, police still served at the pleasure of democratically elected politicians, not the other way around… Through deep archival detective work, Blue Power reveals how police forced American democracy to back the blue.”

-Stuart Schrader from Blue Power

BAM (Baltimore Abolition Movement) is a grassroots organization of people that believe in the abolition of prisons and policing. We firmly believe that these systems – which emerged out of slave patrols and are defined by violent worker suppression – cannot be repaired or reformed. We reject carcerality and policing as legitimate forms of public safety and firmly oppose their privatized expansion in our city. Our power is rooted in Baltimore’s communities, and in solidarity with labor and student movements.