Overview:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_abolition_movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_abolition_movement
https://guides.usfca.edu/restorative-justice (May be slightly out of date)
Notable proponents (alive):
Mariame Kaba
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Angela Davis
Rashida Tlaib
Notable proponents (dead):
Emma Goldman
Groups:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarcerated_Workers_Organizing_Committee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Alabama_Movement
http://www.prisonabolition.org/
Black Lives Matter
Anarchist Black Cross (Likely predates the Industrial Workers of the World and the USSR)
National Lawyers’ Guild (Sometimes)
Penpal projects for LGBTQ prisoners include Black and Pink , Prisoner Correspondence Project from Montreal, Midwest Trans Prisoner Penpal Project in Minneapolis, the Write to Win Collective in Chicago, and the Bent Bars Project in the UK
Groups that send books to prisoners include Books to Prisoners, Books Through Bars, Prison Book Program, Inside Book Projects, LGBTQ Books to Prisoners, and Women’s Prison Book Project
Articles:
Yes, We Really do Mean Abolish the Police
On the Road With Abolition: Assessing Our Steps Along the Way
Common Questions about Prison Abolition
Building an Abolitionist Trans and Queer Movement with Everything We've Got
Infographics:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59ead8f9692ebee25b72f17f/t/5b65cd58758d46d34254f22c/1533398363539/CR_NoCops_reform_vs_abolition_CRside.pdf
Websites:
https://www.8toabolition.com/
http://criticalresistance.org/
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/
https://transformharm.org/ (Includes 5 other categories that relate to abolition, curated by Mariame Kaba)
http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/ (Has not been updated since 2020)
Books:
Alexander, M - ‘The New Jim Crow’ (2010)
Davis, A - ‘Are Prisons Obsolete’ (2003)
Jackson, G. - ‘Blood in My Eye’ (1972)
Vitale A.S - ‘The End of Policing’ (2017)
Ferrari, Livio; Pavarini, Massimo, eds. (2018). No Prison.
http://criticalresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/CR-Abolitionist-Toolkit-online.pdf
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/instead_of_prisons/chapter1.shtml
Podcasts:
https://theintercept.com/2020/06/10/ruth-wilson-gilmore-makes-the-case-for-abolition/
https://crimethinc.com/podcasts/the-ex-worker/episodes/8
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDMzMy9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbA/episode/MDdhZDdkMzktYTIxNC00MTdlLWEwYTEtNTc3NThiYzBmMWQx?hl=en&ep=6
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/toward-abolition-building-a-world-without-police-or-prisons
https://rustbeltradio.org/
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-39-from-cradle-to-courtroom-how-the-media-stacks-the-deck-against-defendants
How you can help right now:
-Donate to your local bail fund or create your own
-Participate in an IWOC phone zap
-Join a noise protest outside of a prison
-Wheatpaste propaganda around your city
-Participate in and organize cop watches around your city
-Write a prisoner (Political or otherwise, this may help prevent guards from fucking with someone if they have someone on the outside. This also helps with emotional support.)
-Sit in on trials at your courthouse
-Organize a prison abolition event within the DSA to educate people on this subject
-Propaganda of the deed
-Join a racial justice branch within a DSA chapter
-Give to a prisoner's commissary fund
-Give false information to the police if they ask for help in finding information (Use best opsec practices)
-Perform jail support for the arrested
Study guide / Syllabus:
https://www.aaihs.org/prison-abolition-syllabus-2-0/
https://abolitionjournal.org/studyguide/
https://www.aaihs.org/prison-abolition-syllabus/
https://abolitionistfutures.com/full-reading-list
Related:
An Anarchist Theory of Criminal Justice
Note: This is a living document, treat this as a first draft. I want to expand this in the near future to include talking points, history, and important figures in the movement. I also need to write an intro for this as well as flesh out the "what you can do right now" section. If anyone wants to collaborate on this, send me a DM or leave a comment with your suggestions. I'm probably going to take this to /r/anarchism as a sidebar suggestion when it's complete.
Kite Line is a really good radio show and podcast centered on prisoners and the struggles of the incarcerated.
Also it would be helpful if some of the links had text describing what they're linking instead of just the link, like in the podcast section
Awseome list!
Have seen some mixed reviews on The End of Policing , with some people saying its a bit lib. Do you agree?
There's no way I can read all of this on my current schedule (although that may change since I just got fired). For example: I average about 5 pages per day. I'll let you know when we finish our "Debt the First 5000 Years" reading group.
No worries comrade, thanks. If you need any help with Debt let me know, read it a while ago :rat-salute:
If you have any notes from the book in a notebook somewhere, please share them when the group launches on perusall or the main thread. Any insight is good insight on this kind of thing.
Will do. Is this happening after Hammer and Hoe? Or is this a seperate thing
I guess it's a separate thing (not that that was intentional). We start today actually, which is a good reminder for my dumbass. Totally spaced.
Black and Pink is quite phenomenal, they have a pen pal project that'll get you in contact with incarcerated queer and disadvantaged people. Certainly one of the most important and most difficult relationships to build during American revolution- The real tangible relationship slaves and the workers/academics/free people working for their liberation.
I would also say Blood in my Eye is required reading if you're an Amerikan. It is more pertinent to our ongoing conditions Right Now than any other piece of leftist literature. The theory can be developed with the help vanguard, and as long as we build a movement built on love and liberation. The education cannot be received, however, until the revolutionary struggle is full force. For more reading on that theory, I'd recommend pedagogy of the oppressed. But really I'd recommend reading Jackson and then [REDACTED]
Added in the "related" section. I'm probably going to add in a criminal justice section later because of this comment. You can't really separate the two.
