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From plantation rebellion to prison labour's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property. That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill when we know our economies are flush with fake money says something damning about the way we’ve organized society. Yet the intensity of the calls to abolish the police after George Floyd’s death surprised almost everyone. What, exactly, does abolition mean? How did we get here? And what does property have to do with it? In On Property, Rinaldo Walcott explores the long shadow cast by slavery’s afterlife and shows how present-day abolitionists continue the work of their forebears in service of an imaginative, creative philosophy that ensures freedom and equality for all. Thoughtful, wide-ranging, compassionate, and profound, On Property makes an urgent plea for a new ethics of care.

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“You have taken our civil rights—we want our human rights.” On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston Penitentiary and seized control, making headlines around the world. For four intense days, the prisoners held the guards hostage while their leaders negotiated with a citizens’ committee of journalists and lawyers, drawing attention to the dehumanizing realities of their incarceration, including overcrowding, harsh punishment and extreme isolation. But when another group of convicts turned their pent-up rage towards some of the weakest prisoners, tensions inside the old stone walls erupted, with tragic consequences. As heavily armed soldiers prepared to regain control of the prison through a full military assault, the inmates were finally forced to surrender. Murder on the Inside tells the harrowing story of a prison in crisis against the backdrop of a pivotal moment in the history of human rights. Occurring just months before the uprising at Attica Prison, the Kingston riot has remained largely undocumented, and few have known the details—yet the tense drama chronicled here is more relevant today than ever. A gripping account of the standoff and the efforts for justice and reform it inspired, Murder on the Inside is essential reading for our times. Includes 24 pages of photographs.

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Since both the Notorious B.I.G.’s and Tupac Shakur’s deaths, there has been endless fascination with their murders. LAbyrinth has been adapted into a feature film that will be released in fall 2018, directed by Brad Furman and starring Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker. A movie tie-in edition will be released in September. LAbyrinth was published to great acclaim from the Boston Globe , Washington Post , Entertainment Weekly , and others. Dead Wrong will include the Notorious BIG Estate’s wrongful death suit against the LAPD and City of Los Angeles, which was dismissed without prejudice when the LAPD claimed to be reopening the case (after which nothing has happened). “Without prejudice” means the case can be refiled at any time. Randall Sullivan will also examine the Los Angeles Times ’s reporting on the case, which repeatedly omitted evidence in favor of the most likely theory of who murdered Biggie (a hit ordered by Suge Knight and executed by LAPD officer David Mack and a man named Amir Muhammed), and at one point outed a confidential informant whose evidence supported that theory. The journalist who wrote most of that coverage was later fired, ostensibly as part of routine layoffs. Sullivan will debunk the self-published book Murder Rap by former LAPD detective Greg Kading, who also misdirects readers against the Mack-Muhammed theory of the murder. The Kading book was the basis for the recent USA Network limited television series Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious BIG. Additionally, Sullivan will cover the death of Russell Poole, the detective who sought and failed to break the LAPD’s code of silence about the Mack-Muhammed theory, resulting eventually in losing his employment and succumbing to depression and alcoholism.

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Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala’s leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death in his garage on a Sunday night in 1998, two days after the presentation of a groundbreaking church-sponsored report implicating the military in the murders and disappearances of some two hundred thousand civilians. Realizing that it could not rely on police investigators or the legal system to solve the murder, the church formed its own investigative team, a group of secular young men in their twenties who called themselves Los Intocables (the Untouchables). Known in Guatemala as “The Crime of the Century,” the Bishop Gerardi murder case, with its unexpectedly outlandish scenarios and sensational developments, confounded observers and generated extraordinary controversy. In his first nonfiction book, acclaimed novelist Francisco Goldman has spoken to witnesses no other reporter has reached, and observed firsthand some of the most crucial developments in the case. Now he has produced The Art of Political Murder, a tense and astonishing true detective story that opens a window on the new Latin American reality of mara youth gangs and organized crime, and tells the story of a remarkable group of engaging, courageous young people, and of their remarkable fight for justice.

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Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge. Corporate war on nature and people through patents and corporate Intellectual Property Rights has unleashed an epidemic of biopiracy resulting in important legal battles fighting efforts to patent the rights to many plants, including basmati, neem, and wheat. The author presents details of the specific attempts made by corporations to secure these patents and the legal actions taken to fight them. The book goes beyond the legal struggle to position the necessary solutions to corporate control including the exploring the Rights of Nature and proposing a framework for a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth. It is the first detailed legal history of the international and national laws related to biodiversity and Intellectual Property Rights.

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