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Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, librarian/archivist, and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. Kaba co-leads Interrupting Criminalization, an organization she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018. She has co-founded multiple organizations and projects over the years including Project NIA, We Charge Genocide, the Chicago Freedom School, the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women, Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander (now Love & Protect), Just Practice Collaborative, Survived & Punished, Sojourners for Justice Press and For the People Lefitist Library Project. Kaba is the author of the New York Times Bestseller We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Haymarket Books, 2021) & most recently Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care with Kelly Hayes (Haymarket, 2023) among several other books that offer support and tools for repair, transformation, and moving toward a future without incarceration and policing.

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    Prisons Must Fall: Celebration and Picnic

    May 17, 2025
    Haymarket House
    Chicago, IL

    Join us on Saturday, May 17th from 10-12 for an outdoor picnic and celebration of our new children's book Prisons Must Fall, written by Mariame Kaba and Jane Ball and illustrated by Olly Costello.

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  • Sojourners for Justice

    Big news! We're honored to be working with Mariame Kaba and Neta Bomani to bring Sojourners for Justice into the world!

    Sojourners for Justice Press is a micro press that opens its platform to people working experimentally with print based media, publishing short form and ephemeral zines, pamphlets, and booklets that engage do-it-yourself, black feminist, and abolitionist philosophies.

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    By Haymarket Books / October 25 2022

  • Abolitionist Starter Kit

    Abolitionist Starter Kit: five books by acclaimed abolitionist organizers and thinkers to help sharpen our analysis, ground our strategy, and deepen our commitment to collective liberation.

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    By Haymarket Books / April 27 2021

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