INTRODUCTION:
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Documentary: 13th (NETFLIX)
Documentary: Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to A New Way of Life
Podcast: https://theintercept.com/2020/06/10/ruth-wilson-gilmore-makes-the-case-for-abolition/
PUNISHMENT & POLICING
Discipline & Punishment by Michael Foucault
The End of Policing by Alex Vitale
We Must Divest From Policing, Not Just the Police by Elena Breda
THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Golden Gulag by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
City of Inmates by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
THE FALLACY OF REFORM
Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps in policing PDF
THE INTERCONNECTIONS OF RACE, FEMINISM, & QUEERNESS
Building an Abolitionist Trans-Queer Movement With Everything We’ve Got Nothing
Policing Doesn’t Protect Women
Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation
Living While Black and the Criminalization of Blackness
Mass Incarceration and Criminalization
Abolition is a Feminist Project
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Organizations:
Critical Resistance: http://criticalresistance.org/
Movement 4 Black Lives: https://m4bl.org/
#8toAbolition: https://www.8toabolition.com/
Black Youth Project 100: https://www.byp100.org/
Abolition and Democracy Blog: http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/abolition1313/