I am so glad I read this book with the Virtual Socialism Reading Group. It was inspiring and interesting to talk to other people about it.

The main concepts that I took away from this book are:
- We can all start working towards abolition/a future we want now. It is as easy as getting to know your neighbors, strengthening relationships, practicing the accountability in your own life that you want to see on others’, getting creative.
- You don’t have to have everything planned out. If one attempt doesn’t work, learn from your mistakes, make adjustments, create new iterations and ideas. The fact is that the current system set the bar very low — no need be afraid of failing when the current system already is lol
- bottom up instead of top down organizing means there is room for lots of ideas, flexibility, resilience, and experimentation. Room for all kinds of folks to have a try at making their ideas come to life.

And I kept thinking about how my church has a lot of these concepts down! That made me proud. Sure, there is a noticeable problem with organization haha. But I think that comes with the territory of having so many different people leading different initiatives and having leadership pretty decentralized.