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A People's Guide to Abolition A PEOPLE’S GUIDE TO ABOLITION A Collaborative & Working Abolitionist Resource Document PURPOSE Created by ​Court Watch NYC​ volunteers, the purpose of this document is to provide a guide to abolitionist texts, videos, organizations, and other resources for movement builders to use to inform theoretical framework and political action. We recognize this document only scratches the surface of the extraordinary work being done by activists, organizers, scholars, and community members every day -- this means this guide is far from complete. This is a collaborative working document, so if you have any resources or organizations you’d like to contribute, please email Tommy at ​[email protected]​. INFORMATION SOURCES In the creation of this guide, Court Watch NYC referenced various advocacy libraries, research guides, and impactful work of other abolition-focused coalitions. We credit the work of the following organizations and coalitions as informational sources for this document. Abolitionist Futures​: a collaboration of community organisers and activists in the UK and Ireland who are working together to build a future without prisons, police and punishment Black Perspectives Blog​: an award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) -- a group of engaged scholars deeply committed to producing and disseminating cutting-edge research that is accessible to the public and is oriented towards advancing the lives of people of African descent and humanity Critical Resistance​: an abolitionist coalition that seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe Project NIA​: a grassroots organization that works to end the arrest, detention, and incarceration of children and young adults by promoting restorative and transformative justice practices Survived and Punished​: an abolitionist organization whose work specifically focuses on criminalized survivors to raise awareness about the integrated relationship between systems of punishment and the pervasiveness of gender violence A World Without Police​: a collective of organizers dedicated to connecting people struggling against the everyday violence of the police, and to provide practical, organizational and theoretical tools for use in our movement Last Updated: 6/27/20 Table of Contents Criminal Injustice & Mass Incarceration 3 Abolitionist Actions vs. Reformist Reforms 6 Black Lives Matter & Racial Equity 9 The War on Poverty & For-Profit Driven Surveillance 12 Gender, Queerness, & Carceral Feminism 15 Disability Justice 18 Crimmigration & Abolishing ICE 21 Reimagining Justice & Abolition Organizing 24 Organizations & Coalitions to Support 27 NOTE: ​All books are linked to publisher’s sites, but we recommend buying from one of the ​Black-owned bookstores​ on this list. 2 Criminal Injustice & Mass Incarceration BOOKS Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Punishment and Inequality in America Prisons, and Torture​ (2005) by Angela (2006) by Bruce Western Davis The Rise of the Penitentiary: Prisons and Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early Punishment in Early America​ (1992) by America​ (2012) by Michele Lise Tarter, Adam J. Hirsch Richard Bell Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison Empire​ (2010) Robert Perkinson Prison-Industrial Complex​ (2005) by Julia Sudbury Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, (2019) by Danielle Sered and Opposition in Globalizing California (2007) by Ruth Wilson Gilmore FILMS, PODCASTS, & VIDEOS A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court​ (1998) by William Ayers “The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Urban Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in America”​ (2011) – Video, ​Harvard Early America​ (2015) by Jen Manion University Press Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in “District Attorneys: The Most Powerful the Age of Crisis​ (2008, new edition) by People You’ve Never Heard Of”​ (2018) – Christian Parenti Podcast, ​The Appeal Locked In: The True Causes of Mass “Driving While Black, A Tale of Two Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Tickets”​ (2019) – Video, Robert Reich & Reform​ ​(2017) by John Pfaff W. Kamau Bell The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in “The Foundation of the Social and the Age of Colorblindness​ (2010) by Criminal Justice System”​ (2019) – Video, Michelle Alexander Dr. Maxine Bryant One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black in the American South, 1866-1928 Liberation | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor” (1996) by Matthew J. Mancini (2016) – Video, ​TEDx Talks 3 “How Our Criminal Justice System “The Causes of Growth in Prison Targets Communities”​ (2016) – Video, Admissions and Populations”​ by John AJ+ Pfaff for ​Columbia University “Mass Incarceration, Visualized”​ (2015) – “Community Accountability: Emerging Video, ​The Atlantic Movements to Transform Violence” (2011) edited by Ana Clarissa Rojas “Mass Incarceration”​ (2019) – Podcast, Durazo, Alisa Bierria, Mimi Kim Throughline by NPR “The Crisis of Criminalization: A Call for “Racial Disparities Within the Criminal Comprehensive Philanthropic Response” Justice System”​ (2019) – Podcast, ​The (2017) created by Dr. Beth Richie, Liberation Experience Andrea J. Ritchie, & the Barnard Center for Research on Women Slavery by Another Name ​(2012) – Film, PBS "From Military Industrial Complex to Prison Industrial Complex”​ (2005) by “Slavery, Mass Murder, and the Birth of Ruth Wilson Gilmore for ​Recording American Policing”​ (2020) – Podcast, Carceral Landscapes Project Behind the Police “The History of Mass Incarceration” “Stop Hugging Cops”​ (2019) – Podcast, (2018) by James Cullen for the ​Brennan Beyond Prisons Institute for Justice “How We Misunderstand Mass ARTICLES, ESSAYS, AND REPORTS Incarceration”​ (2017) by Adam Gopnick for the ​New Yorker Abolish the Police? Organizers Say It’s Less Crazy Than It Sounds​ (2016) by “Mass Detention & PIC”​ from ​Chicago Maya Dukmasova for ​Chicago Reader PIC Collective​ & the ​Chicago New Sanctuary Coalition “Black & Blue: History and Current Manifestations of Policing, Violence & “Mass Incarceration in America, Resistance”​ website from​ Project NIA Explained in 22 Maps and Charts”​ (2016) and the ​Chicago PIC Teaching Collective by German Lopez for ​Vox News “Capitalizing on Mass Incarceration: U.S. “Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie” Growth in Private Prisons” ​(2018) by (2020) from ​Prison Policy Initiative Kara Gotsch, Vinay Basti for ​The Sentencing Project “An Open Letter to Our Friends on the Question of Language”​ from The Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions 4 “A Primer on Mass Incarceration”​ (2018) from ​Prison Diaries “Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and “Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Transformation in Postwar American Beyond the New Jim Crow”​ (2012) by History”​ (2010) by Heather Ann James Forman Jr. in ​New York University Thompson Law Review “Rising Incarceration Rates”​ (2014) from The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences​ by the National Research Council “The Societal Impact of the Prison Industrial Complex, or Incarceration for Fun and Profit—Mostly Profit”​ (2012) by Alex Friedmann in​ Prison Legal News ”Three Reasons Advocates Must Move Beyond Demanding Release for “Nonviolent Offenders”​ (2020) by Micah Herskind in ​Medium “To End Mass Incarceration, Our Society Must Look Beyond the ‘Non-Violent Drug Offenses”​ (2016) by Asar Amen in The Abolitionist, A Publication of Critical Resistance “The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration” (2017) by Vesla Weaver in the ​Boston Review “What is the Prison Industrial Complex?” from the ​Empty Cages Collective “Why Did the U.S. Prison Population Increase So Much?”​ from Hanyang University 5 Abolitionist Actions vs. Reformist Reforms BOOKS Who Do You Serve? Who Do You Protect?​ (2016) by Joe Macaré, Maya Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan Price and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex​ (2010) by CR-10 Publications Collective FILMS, PODCASTS, & VIDEOS Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect “Abolishing Prisons with Mariame Kaba” You​ (2012) by Ryan Conrad (2017) – Podcast, ​Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes Are Prisons Obsolete?​ ​(2003) by Angela Davis “Abolition and COVID-19 w/ Mohamed Shehk, Emmy Rakete & Ruth Wilson Beyond Survival​ (2020) edited by Ejeris Gilmore”​ (2020) – Video, ​The Red Nation Dixon, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha “Abolition Can’t Wait: A Teach-In with #8toAbolition”​ (2020) – Video, The End of Policing​ ​(2018) by Alex Vitale Haymarket Books The End of Prisons: Reflections from the “Angela Davis likens abolishing the Decarceration Movement​ ​(2013) edited prison system to end of slavery​” (2020) – by Anthony J. Nocella II Video, Best of George Strombo Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Beyond Prisons​ – Podcast Consequences of Popular Reforms (2020) by Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law “Building Accountable Communities” (2018) – Video, ​Barnard Center for Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice Research on Women After Wrongful Conviction​ (2018) by Lara Bazelon “The Economy of Incarceration: Ruth Wilson Gilmore”​ (2015) – Video, ​The The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Laura Flanders Show Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex​ (2017) by INCITE! Women of “Mariame Kaba and Prison Abolition” Color Against Violence (2019) – Podcast, ​Justice
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