COLLECTIVE COMMUNITY CARE
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(Resource Hubs to Ponder Questions You Didn’t Even Know You Had)
What are the current conditions of the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC)?
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Prisons, Policing, and Punishment
This resource hub includes resources about prisons, policing and punishment. There are themes of police abolition, prison abolition, abolition and coronavirus, origin stories, criminalizing Blackness/LGBTQ/immigration, sexual violence and anti-carceral feminism, community accountability, restorative justice, transformative justice, disability justice, perils of reform, tech fixes, private prisons, prison organizing, prison labor, mutual aid, child welfare, climate justice and prisons, and Christianity’s intersections with abolition. Created by Micah Herskind |
Abolition Journal Study Guide
This study holds the promise of both refusal of the current order, and the creation of a new one: sometimes, worlds are created in the midst of uprisings, in mutual aid efforts like the Minneapolis Sanctuary Hotel and the Capitol Hill Organized Protest. These are examples of what we call “making abolitionist worlds”. This study guide goes over Prisons and Policing in the U.S. as a History of anti-Blackness, The Prison Industrial Complex, Policing and Imprisonment as Racial Violence, Reformist Reforms vs. Abolitionist Steps, Feminist, Queer and Trans Abolitionism, and Abolitionist Alternatives. Created by Abolition Journal |
The PIC is…
This resource hub has curricula, zines, resources and tools for understanding the PIC. Created by The Chicago PIC Teaching Collective |
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History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine
This syllabus goes over medical and scientific theories of racial difference; The African Diasporic Roots of Western Medicine and Science; medicine, health and the slave trades; slavery era medical practitioners and practices; disability in slavery and freedom; Medicine, Reproduction, and Childhood in the Era of Slavery; Medicine and Health in Post-Emancipation Era Societies; Medicine, Public Health and Racial Uplift; Eugenics and Progressive Era Racial Science;. Black People as Experimental Subjects; 20th Century Race and Mental Health; Race and Medicine from Civil Rights to Black Power; 20th and 21st Century Social and Environmental Effects of Racism; HIV/AIDS in Black America and its Legacy; Genetics & the Re-biologization of Race; and Anti-Black Racism & COVID-19. Created by Antoine S. Johnson, Elise A. Mitchell, Ayah Nuriddin |
Transform Harm: Carceral Feminism
A resource hub about ending violence and carceral feminism including articles, media, curricula, and more. Created by Mariame Kaba |
What is abolition?
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Transform Harm: Abolition
A resource hub about ending violence and abolition including articles, media, curricula, and more. Created by Mariame Kaba |
Abolitionist Futures
This reading list’s purpose is to introduce abolitionist ideas via short, accessible and introductory texts, podcasts and videos. Sessions include introductions to abolition, problems with reform, feminist, queer and anti-racist abolition, transformative justice, mutual aid and coronavirus, Black Lives Matter and defunding the police. Created by Abolitionist Futures |
#8ToAbolition
Resource hub focusing on building towards a society without prisons or police, where communities are equipped to provide for their safety and well being. Key areas of focus are dismantling the PIC, ending the school to prison pipeline, interrupting gendered and state violence, and resisting reforms that expand the carceral state. Created by a geographically dispersed, loose formation of abolitionists across the U.S. |
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Everyday Abolition
Amplifying our everyday resistance to the prison industrial complex. We’re building our resources–especially non-US based ones. Created by Lisa Marie Alatorre and Chanelle Gallant |
Essential Reading List
These are essential reading for someone who is trying to better understand the prison industrial complex and how it works, as well as mass incarceration. These texts are weighted toward sociology. Created by Mariame Kaba |
What is Abolition?
This hub has resources on real accountability and abolition, and is primarily Black and Indigenous writers, as that is where the movement started. They explain transformative justice, police abolition, feminism, capitalism and anti-Blackness, disability justice, resisting tech fixes, and more. Created by Camila |
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Resources
This resource has basic information about prison abolition, including key organizations working today. Created by Derecka Purnell |
Prison Abolition Syllabus
This resource hub seeks to contextualize and highlight prison organizing and prison abolitionist efforts from the 13th Amendment’s rearticulation of slavery to current resistance to mass incarceration, solitary confinement, and prison labor exploitation. This syllabus discusses theories and origins of punishment, race, sex, labor and prisons, the convict lease system, liberal punishment, anti-lynching campaigns, the civil rights movement, prison rebellions, anti-carceral feminism, expanding the PIC, intersections of health, and futures. Created by the African-American Intellectual History Society |
No more police seems a little extreme. Why can’t we just reform the police?
Abolition Is the Answer for a Failed Police and Prison System
"Abolition for the People,” a project produced by Kaepernick Publishing will publish 30 stories from organizers, political prisoners, scholars, and advocates — all of which point to the crucial conclusion that policing and prisons do not serve as catch-all solutions for the issues and people the state deems social problems. This resource hub includes essays from Angela Y. Davis, Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw and more about why reforms don’t work, futures we want to build, settler-colonialism, centering Black women, ending the school to prison pipeline, disability justice, the militarization of police, and more.
Created by Colin Kapernick
"Abolition for the People,” a project produced by Kaepernick Publishing will publish 30 stories from organizers, political prisoners, scholars, and advocates — all of which point to the crucial conclusion that policing and prisons do not serve as catch-all solutions for the issues and people the state deems social problems. This resource hub includes essays from Angela Y. Davis, Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw and more about why reforms don’t work, futures we want to build, settler-colonialism, centering Black women, ending the school to prison pipeline, disability justice, the militarization of police, and more.
Created by Colin Kapernick
Wait. What about rapists and murderers? I thought police protected people, especially women and survivors of violence! Now you’re saying police are bad?
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Prison Abolition Arguments Chart
This resource lists common questions that people have about PIC abolition, including what we do about rapists, murderers, dangerous people and sociopaths, and what public safety is. Created by Dean Spade |
Organizing Resources
A collection of resources to learn more about the criminalization of survivors of gender violence and activist strategies to free them. Created by Survived and Punished |
Resources Archive
The Community Resource Hub for Safety and Accountability works to ensure all people have access to resources and tools to advocate for systems change and accountability in law enforcement. You can filter this search engine to find resources covering the topics of: Accountability, Alternatives to Arrests, Bias in Policing, Budgets, Community Control, Community Engagement, COVID-19/Coronavirus, Data Collection/Reporting, De-Escalation, Disability, Divest-Invest, Immigration, Independent/Civilian Oversight, Indigenous/Native American, LGBTQIA, Militarization, Police Certifications/De-Certifications, Police Unions/LEOBR, Policing of People with Mental Illness, School Policing and Youth, Surveillance, Technology, Training/Hiring/Diversity, Use of Force, War on Drugs, Women. You can also filter by data type: legislation, podcast, policy, report, toolkit or video. Created by Community Resource Hub |
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Links to Articles about Gender, Incarceration and Resistance
This resource hub discusses gender and the struggles of incarcerated women including criminalization of survival. Created by Victoria Law |
PIC abolition reading list for Survivors
This reading list was created by and is managed by Know Your IX, a survivor-and youth-led project committed to ending gender violence in school. This list is made up of resources and readings we, as survivors, have found helpful when envisioning and working towards a world without the prison industrial complex. Created by Know Your IX |
Sounds good theoretically, but how will we address violence if we don’t have police?
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Transform Harm: Community Accountability
A resource hub about ending violence and community accountability including articles, media, curricula, and more. Created by Mariame Kaba |
Resources for Addressing Harm, Accountability and Healing
This hub includes multimedia resources for addressing harm, accountability, and healing. Themes are interpersonal harm, collective accountability, trauma and healing. Created by Critical Resistance |
Right, but how can we end violence against Black trans women now?
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In Our Names Network
A resource hub on resisting police violence against Black women (trans and non-trans), gender non-conforming folks, and femmes. Categories of resources are know your rights, art and media, fact sheets and reports, and toolkits and organizing. Created by In Our Names Network. |
Interrupting Criminalization
The project aims to interrupt and end the growing criminalization and incarceration of women and LGBTQ people of color for criminalized acts related to public order, poverty, child welfare, drug use, survival and self-defense, including criminalization and incarceration of survivors of violence. Areas of focus included in the resource hub include bias in policing, community engagement, data collection, LGBTQIA, policing of people with mental illness, school policing and youth, use of force, war on drugs, women, and toolkits. Created by Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie. |
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Abolitionist Feminist Resources to Dismantle Policing
These resources are highlighted in response to police violence against women of color (including trans women of color) and all trans and gender non-conforming people of color, which is often unacknowledged, leaving our voices largely unheard and our experiences unaddressed. Created by INCITE! |
How does abolition fit in with settler-colonialism?
An Indigenous Abolitionist Study Guide
This study guide gathers together the work of Indigenous organizers and scholars, and addresses the need for an explicitly Indigenous, anti-colonial abolitionist analysis of the penal system. Such an analysis illustrates the necessity of defunding and dismantling the punitive, carceral structures characteristic of settler colonial society, and turning, instead, to Indigenous Knowledges as a guide to how to create and sustain good relations with each other. This study guide goes over the laws of the land, imposition of settler law, the police, colonial incarceration, abolish social work/restoring relations of care, feminist, two spirit and trans justice, and the presence and future of justice.
Created by Toronto Abolitionist Convergence and Yellowhead Institute
This study guide gathers together the work of Indigenous organizers and scholars, and addresses the need for an explicitly Indigenous, anti-colonial abolitionist analysis of the penal system. Such an analysis illustrates the necessity of defunding and dismantling the punitive, carceral structures characteristic of settler colonial society, and turning, instead, to Indigenous Knowledges as a guide to how to create and sustain good relations with each other. This study guide goes over the laws of the land, imposition of settler law, the police, colonial incarceration, abolish social work/restoring relations of care, feminist, two spirit and trans justice, and the presence and future of justice.
Created by Toronto Abolitionist Convergence and Yellowhead Institute
What is racial capitalism and how does abolition fit in with a racial justice context?
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Racial Capitalism Reading List
In the midst of an international pandemic and an economic crisis, a powerful anti-racist movement has spread across the world, demanding the defunding, disarming, and abolition of police and, in many cases, situating those aims in a critique and rejection of racial capitalism. In an effort to help arm this important movement with ideas and analysis that can help bolster its demands, we've put together this reading list on the historical development and dynamics of racial capitalism, as well as examples of resistance. Created by Haymarket Books |
Slavery, Race, Capitalism
Historians’ recent investigations of the centrality of radicalized chattel slavery to the origins of capitalism — along with activists’ efforts to expose the ongoing legacy of New World slavery — inspire a broad reconsideration of the connections between capitalism, race, and coerced labor across time and around the world. ‘Carceral capitalism,’ the question of reparations, ‘revenue-generating’ policing, international sex-trafficking, and transnational ‘sponsorship’ arrangements that bind migrant workers to their employers: all these pressing concerns call out for interdisciplinary and international investigations of how historical and present-day forms of slavery have shaped — and continue to shape — capitalism.’ This course ranges across different disciplines and regions to survey how race and capitalism have been — and continue to be — conjoined both theoretically and empirically. Created by Julia Ott |
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Policing, Rebellion, Criminalization of Blackness
This resource hub, about policing, rebellion, and criminalizing Blackness, has themes of understanding the police and the function of police violence, criminalizing Blackness, histories of resistance, riots and uprising, defining abolition, and more. Created by the Abusable Past Collective |
Revolutionary Readings
This resource hub discusses whiteness, abolition, racism and Blackness in the US, intersectional feminism, and racial capitalism. Compiled by Victoria Conway. |
What does it look like to practice community accountability outside of the PIC? Does it really work?
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Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence
This academic journal critically examines grassroots efforts, cultural interventions, and theoretical questions regarding community-based strategies to address gendered violence. This collection encapsulates a decade of local and national initiatives led by or inspired by allied social movements that reflect the complexities of integrating the theory and practice of community accountability. Created by Mimi Kim, Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo, and Alisa Bierria |
Prison Abolition FAQ
K answers questions in this google doc guide such as how we practice accountability without the PIC, what to do with killer cops, what the prison system overlooks, cynicism, being a survivor, violence, and provides resources exploring PIC abolition. Created by K Agbebiyi |
Dang, you’re saying we have to smash the patriarchy too?
Relinquishing the Patriarchy
This research has organizations and resources that focus on consent culture, building healthy masculinity and relinquishing patriarchy.
Created by adrienne maree brown
This research has organizations and resources that focus on consent culture, building healthy masculinity and relinquishing patriarchy.
Created by adrienne maree brown
What the heck is transformative justice?
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Steps to End Prisons & Policing: A Mix Tape on Transformative Justice
This resource has nine webinars on transformative justice with closed captioning including PIC Abolition 101, transformative justice, harm reduction, healing justice, safety teams, madness, and interpersonal and non-state accountability. Created by Just Practice Collaborative |
Transformative Justice Resource Compilation
In this resource collection, we highlight some of the groups shaping local and national work on transformative justice. It is impossible to capture the full breadth and history of this work, as these frameworks represent centuries of wisdom developed around kitchen tables and other informal means by communities for whom calling law enforcement was not an option or could lead to additional violence. As we look for ways to expand how we support survivors of sexual assault who seek expansive forms of justice and healing, these projects offer examples and inspiration. Created by National Sexual Assault Coalition Resource Sharing Project |
Transform Harm: Transformative Justice
A resource hub about ending violence and transformative justice including articles, media, curricula, and more. Created by Mariame Kaba |
What’s disability justice, and how does that fit in this puzzle?
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Resources
Resources for Disability Justice and abolition, including mental health, madness, queerness, transformative justice, and alternatives to calling the police during a mental health crisis and mad queer organizing. Created by The Abolition and Disability Justice Coalition |
Disability Justice In the Age of Mass Incarceration: Perspectives on Race, Disability, Law & Accountability
People with disabilities represent the largest “minority” population in our jails and prisons. Yet, advocates rarely view the crisis of mass incarceration through a disability justice lens or approach decarceration advocacy with an intersectional framework. This syllabus will explore the nexus between race, disability and structural inequality, focusing in particular, on people with multiple marginalized identities. Created by Talila Lewis |
Resources
This resource hub has information on mental health, mental illness experiences, disability justice, and race and mental health. They also have information on what to do if you are in crisis, a friend is in crisis or attempted suicide, you need help finding a therapist, you need to build your coping skills, you have experienced trauma, you need to know your rights, you or someone you know is being involuntarily held, you need legal support and you or someone you know is incarcerated due to disability. Created by Project LETS |
What’s healing justice?
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2020 Janine Soleil Abolitionist Institute
Here you will find session materials, as well as additional resources related to the topic of PIC abolition, organizing, and healing justice. This institute is hosted by Project NIA in partnership with EFA Project Space. Created by Laura Chow of Radical Road Maps |
Transform Harm: Healing Justice
A resource hub about ending violence and healing justice including articles, media, curricula, and more. Created by Mariame Kaba |
Fireweed Collective Resources
This resource hub includes information on madness, harm reduction, psychiatry, navigating crises, as well as a history of the Healing Justice movement. Created by the Fireweed Collective |
What’s restorative justice?
Transform Harm: Restorative Justice
A resource hub about ending violence and restorative justice including articles, media, curricula, and more.
Created by Mariame Kaba
A resource hub about ending violence and restorative justice including articles, media, curricula, and more.
Created by Mariame Kaba
What are currently incarcerated people offering about abolition?
Zine Library
This resource hub includes resources that have been studied as abolitionist texts by current people who are incarcerated.
Created by Dreaming Freedom Practicing Abolition
This resource hub includes resources that have been studied as abolitionist texts by current people who are incarcerated.
Created by Dreaming Freedom Practicing Abolition
Did Coronavirus change anything about all this abolition stuff?
COVID-19 and Policing
Communities are fighting for a world where we keep ourselves and each other safe, without surveillance, policing, or punishment. We are building networks of mutual aid, sewing masks for essential workers, and documenting and calling out aggressive and abusive policing in the midst of a pandemic. This website offers tools and resources for individuals and communities to stay safe and to mobilize for what we need – instead of more cops, stops, tickets, cuffs and cells.
Created by COVID-19 POLICING PROJECT
Communities are fighting for a world where we keep ourselves and each other safe, without surveillance, policing, or punishment. We are building networks of mutual aid, sewing masks for essential workers, and documenting and calling out aggressive and abusive policing in the midst of a pandemic. This website offers tools and resources for individuals and communities to stay safe and to mobilize for what we need – instead of more cops, stops, tickets, cuffs and cells.
Created by COVID-19 POLICING PROJECT
Can you recommend some more revolutionary readings?
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Master List of Black Revolutionary Readings
This includes themes such as Black Radical Politics, Black and Marxist feminisms, prison abolition, racial capitalism, critical race-class studies, facism and imperialism, Indigenous studies, revolution, slavery, whiteness, gender and sexuality, and disability. Created by Timmy Chau |
Reading List From Cuba to the Congo
This resource hub contains books, essays, speeches, documentaries that helped the author form their own politics. This list could serve as a stepping stone to consciousness and revolutionary knowledge; a place to start, and expand, and then study deeper into what interests you from this list. Created by Devyn Springer |
Massive reading list
The resource hub has readings on radical politics, marxism, abolition feminisms, the PIC, gender, sexuality, children, families, immigration, Africa and the Global South, imperialism and colonialism, Indigeneity, critical race studies, fat studies and more. Created by Joshua Brionde |
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Radical Political Action
In the Black Study, Black Struggle forum, Robin D. G. Kelley advocates for a rebirth of grassroots political education. A forum contributor, Derecka Purnell, informed us that some groups of student-activists are already doing exactly that. At Harvard Law School, a group called Reclaim Harvard Law has occupied one of the school's lounges and is holding weekly political education sessions there. Purnell shared with us her list of the texts that have been circulating in the group. It shows an investment in liberation not only from racial oppression, but from all forms of oppression, including sexual and financial. The list is informed by a commitment to "intersectionality," Kimberlé Crenshaw's insight that various forms of oppression are entangled and amplify one another, and thus must be fought in concert. We present this list, in the form it was presented to us, as the current pulse of the movement and a testament to its members' brilliance. [Purnell wishes to acknowledge also the work of Rekia Mohammed-Jibrin, who worked with the Dream Defenders' Womxn Faction to compile a portion of this list.] Created by Derecka Purnell |
Assata Teach In
This resource hub has a wealth of resources written by and about Assata Shakur. Created by Mariame Kaba |
Black History Month Library
This resource has many books and articles written by Black folks. Created by madsci.net |
Alright you got me, I’m ready to mobilize. Now what? (Aside from joining local existing abolitionist groups!!)
Direct Action for Prison Abolition Zine
This zine includes different ways to practice abolition, including debt strikes, encampments, inside/outside actions, jail and court solidarity actions, and labor strikes.
Created by Community Justice Exchange
This zine includes different ways to practice abolition, including debt strikes, encampments, inside/outside actions, jail and court solidarity actions, and labor strikes.
Created by Community Justice Exchange
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