ABCDEFGHIJ
1
2
3
Police and Prison Abolition Resource Guide
4
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” - Angela Davis
5
6
7
8
9
What does Police and Prison Abolition mean in the context of Black Lives Matter?
10
This Curriculum is a resource to think critically about Police and Prison Abolition. Public education is critical for movement building. This resource guide aims to challenge the falsehood that abolition is neither possible nor realistic. Black Lives Matter means Black Liberation: Freedom from State sanctioned violence in the form of murder and toxic policing of Black and Brown Communities.

This guide was curated by members of the Beyond the Bars Fellowship at the Columbia Center for Justice (ig @columbiacenterforjustice), Bolaji Oluwasola, Jamilah McMillan, Myrna Santos, and Matthew Moll.

If you have the capacity and would like to make a donation for the work that went into creating this resource guide, we ask that you make a donation to HOLLA, a community organization doing incredible healing work in New York and beyond: https://healwithholla.com/

Follow @thinkingabolition on instagram for easy ways to reshare this content. Please make sure to honor the intellectual property of the authors/thinkers of the articles by citing them when you quote them.
11
12
This Guide Includes the following (Click a link below to access the tab or find the tabs at the bottom of this sheet):
13
Say Their Names (Sheet 1)
14
Articles (Sheet 2),
15
Books (Sheet 3)
16
Talks/Conversations (Sheet 4)
17
Documentaries (Sheet 5)
18
Podcasts (Sheet 6)
19
Free Palestine
20
Organizations Doing the Work (Sheet 7)
21
And Ideas for Next Steps to Critically Engage (Sheet 8)
22
23
Other Guides and Resources. We'd like to honor the incredible work and thoughtfulness that's gone into these guides. We do not desire to reinvent the wheel, so please see these sources as well.
24
TransformHarm by Mariame Kaba - The wealth of resources on this site is beautifully comprehensive.
25
Imagining the World to Come - Resource Guide: Prisons, Policing, and Punishment
26
Prison Abolition Reading Group Syllabus Originally Developed by NYC DSA SFWG
27
The Abolitionist Toolkit by Critical Resistance Abolition Toolkit Workgroup 2014
28
Anti-Racism Resource Guide by Tator Tash
29
Plethora of Resource Kits by Survived and Punished
30
The Palestine-Israel Conflict
31
32
This is for Tyre Nichols, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, Sean Reed, Rekia Boyd, Nina Pop, Jordan Davis, and too many more. #saytheirnames
33
34
35
May we all be equipped to figure out our role in actively working towards liberation because enough is enough.
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100