Talking About Abolition

blog — August 27

One month promotion: Breaking ICE and Talking About Abolition

Beginning September 1, 2026, Sonali Kolhatkar, award-winning journalist and author of Breaking ICE and Talking About Abolition, is offering a month-long promotion for free subscriptions to her interview program Rising Up With Sonali for those who purchase Breaking ICE and Talking About Abolition directly from Seven Stories Press. Every purchase of Breaking ICE will come with a free 3-month subscription to Rising Up With Sonali, while combined purchases of both Breaking ICE and Talking About Abolition will come with a free 6-month subscription and a discount of 20% off the total cost of the books.

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The historic 2020 racial justice uprising laid the ground for the 2025-26 anti-ICE movement across the country.

With cities like Minneapolis, Chicago, LA, New York and more, becoming epicenters for action and bold demands, there are clear links between racist police violence and ICE brutality.

Just as demands for “defunding police” means investing in structures that truly keep people safe and prevent crime (education and afterschool programs, affordable housing, etc), the call to “Abolish ICE” means restoring the social safety net.

In her newest book Breaking ICE, award-winning journalist Sonali Kolhatkar presents her conversations with over a dozen movement organizers, lawyers, artists, labor leaders, and scholars on the frontlines of the fight for immigrant justice and decarceration. Through their courageous stories, Kolhatkar documents the impact of I.C.E. violence, workplace raids, mass surveillance, and intimidation tactics, and how communities from Maine to California are organizing for a better world. Our present actions will not only determine the nature of American demographics from here on out, but also whether the future of the United States will look like an open multiracial democracy or a fascist police state.

In her previous book, Talking About Abolition, Kolhatkar presents a visionary outlook for a future rooted in liberation, freedom, and justice, featuring a collection of inspiring conversations with scholars, movement figures, and activists who are leading the movement to end policing and prisons. From articulating the best counter-arguments to pervasive “copaganda,” to exposing the moral bankruptcy of reformism, each conversation connects the dots between past and present while imagining a collective future rooted in liberation, freedom, and justice.

This abolitionist framework, developed by Black thinkers and activists, can apply to armed enforcers at all levels, from local police, to federal immigration agents, to the US military.

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BREAKING ICE: A gripping, on-the-ground account of the growing movement against state violence, featuring interviews with those on the frontlines of the fight for immigrant justice.

A war is being waged on the streets of the United States of America. On one side, there are the ICE agents, the DHS, and their supporters, terrorizing communities throughout the United States with the threat of arrest and deportation. On the other side is the growing national movement dedicated to protecting communities, reversing racist and authoritarian policies, and otherwise challenging MAGA’s violent anti-immigration regime.

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TALKING ABOUT ABOLITION: A collection of powerful interviews with scholars, organizers, and activists who are leading the movement to end policing and prison.

Abolitionist thinkers have been envisioning police-free communities for decades, but only in the aftershock of the racial justice uprisings of 2020 have their radical ideas entered into mainstream discourse.

“Through these powerful interviews, Sonali provides a window into the visionary work of on-the-ground organizers developing the concrete practices of an abolitionist future. In the process, she reminds us that abolition is not an abstraction, but instead a guide for the work we do now to build a better future.” —Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of Policing