Praise for "Policing Dissent"

"Luis Fernandez has eloquently and forcefully addressed one of the central problems of our time: the repression and intimidation of grassroots democracy in America. In these pages Fernandez exposes the cancer of runaway state bullying and political intolerance that are an ever larger part of American policing. This book is frightening, urgent – crucial reading."--Christian Parenti, author of Lockdown America and the Soft Cage

“Fernandez’s survey of new protest policing helps us all feel the chill—not just of mass mobilizations but of dissent itself.”
—Amory Starr, author of Naming the Enemy and Global Revolt

“An important contribution to our understanding of the state’s response to unrest that puts the scholarship on protest policing into contact with the repressive reality.”
—Kristian Williams, author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America

"In Luis Fernandez’s Policing Dissent the crackling energy of contemporary street protest animates a careful analysis of late modern social control. In fact, Fernandez catches those very moments when social activism and social control collide—and finds in them a dangerous politics of the present day."
—Jeff Ferrell, author of Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy

“A fascinating look at a vitally important movement for social change—and the obstacles it faces. Important reading for self-reflective activists.”
— Starhawk, author of The Five Sacred Thing and Webs of Power.

If you would like Luis Fernandez to speak to your class, student or community group, radio or television show, or any other forum,
please contact him at: luis.fernandez@nau.edu