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Resources on Police and Prison Abolition

This carrd will continually be updated with more resources, check back soon!

• Abolition FAQ

• What are we talking about when we talk about “a police-free future?”

Roundups/Study Guides

New to abolition? Here are places to begin learning:

• If You’re New to Abolition: Study Group Guide
• Prison Culture Blog
• A World Without Police Study Guide
• MPD150 Resources

Online Media

• Common Question about Police and Prison Abolition and Responses, Dean Spade with Feedback from Mariame Kaba, text version
• [Instagram version by Ren Gomez]

• Podcast: Join the Abolitionist Movement (with Mariame Kaba)

• Interview: Toward the Horizon of Abolition, A Conversation with Mariame Kaba

• Podcasts/Interviews: Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Abolition

• Article: What Abolitionists Do by Dan Berger, Mariame Kaba and David Stein

• Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind

• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Downloadable Readings

Print these out, photocopy them, share them widely!

• Book: Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America [PDF]

• What Will It Take to Stop the Police from Killing? [Online]
• PDF

• Slave Patrols and Civil Servants: A History of Policing in Two Modes [Online]
• [PDF]

• 3 Positions Against Prison [PDF]

• Burning the Bridges They Are Building: Anarchist Strategies Against the Police – Puget Sound, 2011 [PDF]

• Against the Police & and the Prison World They Maintain: Communiques from the Pacific Northwest – January – March, 2011 (Companion to Burning the Bridges They Are Building) [PDF]

• “To Struggle Means We Are Alive”: Prisoners Speak Out on Ferguson, Baltimore, and Ongoing Revolt Against the Police [PDF]

Posters, Stickers, etc

Put these up in your community!

• "Let Them All Go" Poster

• Assorted Abolitionist Art/Posters

• Police Not Welcome Sticker

• Instagram Graphics by Ren Gomez

Miscellaneous Resources

Counteracting False Narratives

• Stealing Away In America, a conversation between Zoe Samudzi and Vicki Osterweil [Online]
• [PDF]

• In Defense of Looting, Vicki Osterweil [Online]
• [PDF]

• Welcome to the Frontlines: Beyond Violence and Nonviolence (From comrades in HK+Chile) [Online]

• The Illegitimacy of Violence, the Violence of Legitimacy [PDF]

What Do I Do? Resources for Organizing

• Directory of bail funds around the so-called United States

• Why Misogynists Make Great Informants [Online]
• [PDF]

• Poster: The Riot is one Night...Metadata Lasts Forever

• Affinity Groups [PDF]

• Autonomous Self Organization [PDF]

• Spread Information, Not Panic (Graphic)

• The Criminal Legal System for Radicals [PDF]

• CLDC Know Your Rights [PDF in English]
• [PDF in Spanish]

Zine Libraries/Collections

• Salish Sea Black Autonomy Zine Library

• .ZIP file of many of the zines on this page! (103.6 MB)

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