Joy James, Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities at Williams College, is a political philosopher who works with organizers. She is editor of The Angela Y. Davis Reader; Imprisoned Intellectuals; and co-editor of The Black Feminist Reader. James's recent books include In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love; New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner; and Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon. Her edited volumes with Pluto include ENGAGE: Indigenous, Black, Afro-Indigenous Futures.
What happens when the police becomes an army?
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I
1. The Rubik's Cube of Cop City: The Crisis of Colonized Cities and State Criminality, by Joy James and Kalonji Jama Changa
2. Urban Warfare and Corporate-Funded Armies: Cop City as a Chapter in the Long History of U.S. Colonialism, by Joy James and Kalonji Jama Changa
3.Letter of Concern to Black Clergy Regarding "Cop City", by Reverend Matthew V. Johnson and Joy James
4.Resisting Cop City Corporate and Clergy Colonizers, by Fergie Chambers, Matt Johnson, Kalonji Changa, and Joy James
5. Tortuguita's Mother Speaks: Belkis Teran: BPM/RSTV Interview with Kalonji Changa
PART II
6. Combat Police Terror, by Dhoruba bin Wahad and Kalonji Changa
7.Assassination Attempts against Mumia Abu-Jamal, by Pam Africa, Noel Hanrahan, Ricardo Alvarez, Kalonji Changa, and Joy James
8.How Prison Officials Manufactured Gangs and Gang Wars in Virginia's Prisons, by Kevin "Rashid" Johnson
9.The Pendleton 2 Defense Committee
Conclusion, by Joy James
"We Remember the Attempts to be Free: Part 3", by James Jones
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