**An exploration of how emergent strategies can help us meet this
moment, survive what is to come, and shape safer and more just
futures.
**Practicing New Worlds explores how principles of emergence,
adaptation, iteration, resilience, transformation, interdependence,
decentralization and fractalization can shape organizing toward a world
without the violence of surveillance, police, prisons, jails, or cages
of any kind, in which we collectively have everything we need to survive
and thrive.
Drawing on decades of experience as an abolitionist organizer, policy
advocate, and litigator in movements for racial, gender, economic, and
environmental justice and the principles articulated by adrienne maree
brown in Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, Ritchie
invites us to think beyond traditional legislative and policy change to
create more possibilities for survival and resistance in the midst of
the ongoing catastrophes of racial capitalism--and the cataclysms to
come. Rooted in analysis of current abolitionist practices and
interviews with on-the-ground organizers resisting state violence,
building networks to support people in need of abortion care, and
nurturing organizations and convergences that can grow transformative
cities and movements, Practicing New Worlds takes readers on a journey
of learning, unlearning, experimentation, and imagination to dream the
worlds we long for into being.
