Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Abolition (Part 1)
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Black Lives Matter, Everybody Lives Better
In the book, ruthi describes the people on the bus as a dream crowd. Their different entry points into struggle had to do with race and ethnicity,. gender and sexuality and religion. They were drawn together by their sameness. As ruthe puts it, they were employed, disabled or retired; working people with little or no discretionary income. This struck me as so much more sophisticated than some of our main stream discussions about who has take in this fight.
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