Why Abolition is necessary & overdue:
8 can’t wait - towards abolition strategic plan (https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5edbf321b6026b073fef97d4/t/5ee0817c955eaa484011b8fe/1591771519433/8toAbolition_V2.pdf)
Institutions of policing and prisons have become monetized
3 people killed per day in US, 25% were black (13% of population), 465 people so far this year.
2.3 million people incarcerated in the US
From prisonpolicy.org: “The American criminal justice system holds almost 2.3 million people in 1,833 state prisons, 110 federal prisons, 1,772 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,134 local jails, 218 immigration detention facilities, and 80 Indian Country jails as well as in military prisons, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the U.S. territories.”
Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky (background on understanding roles in movement organizing)
Are Prisons Absolete? Angela Davis
The Autobiography of Angela Davis
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Assata Shakur: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
Soledad: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
Burn Down the American Plantation, Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement
How Nonviolence Protects the State, Peter Gerlerloss
Angels with Dirty Faces, Walidah Amarisha
An Indigenous People’s History of the United State, Eduardo Galleano
I’m still here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Ten Point Program by Bobby Seale & Huey P Newton
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/1966/10/15.htm
8 to abolition: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5edbf321b6026b073fef97d4/t/5ee0817c955eaa484011b8fe/1591771519433/8toAbolition_V2.pdf
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Black Power Mixtape (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_dCL2F571Q)
Moving at the Speed of Trust: Disability Justice and Transformative Justice (https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/moving-at-the-speed-of-trust-disability-and-transformative-justice/)
13th (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8)
Anti-racism resources:
Rachel Ricketts www.rachelricketts.com
Sharyn Holmes www.sharynholmes.com
Erika hart @iharterika ON INSTAGRAM
McKensie Mack www.mckensiemack.com
Other resources:
https://itsgoingdown.org/ (listen to the 'its going down' podcast)
http://www.criticalresistance.com (awesome abolitionist organization)
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