Selected resources that have contributed to our community’s continuous learning and unlearning.
Read
Are Prisons Obsolete?, Dr. Angela Y. Davis
Golden Gulag, Ruth Wilson Gilmore
The End of Policing, Alex S. Vitale
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, Khalil Gibran Muhammad
We Do This ‘Til We Free Us, Mariame Kaba
“For more than a century, Alameda has been the Bay Area's island of racism and police violence” by Rasheed Shabazz
Abolition for the People by Colin Kaepernick
“How I Became a Police Abolitionist” by Derecka Purnell
Reformist reforms vs. Abolitionist steps in policing chart from Critical Resistance
Watch
Animated Project NIA video
Community Resource Hub’s defundpolice.org homepage video on the website as a tool
AJ+ “The racist origins of the US Police Force”
Dream Defenders’ Sunday School program entitled “Unlock Us: Abolition in our Lifetime”
Haymarket Books’ varied political education events shared on their YouTube
Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) entire video series
Listen
NPR Throughline: “American Police”
Intercepted pod: “Ruth Wilson Gilmore makes the case for abolition”
Justice in America: Episode 20, Mariame Kaba and Prison Abolition
KQED Rightnowish: “Cat Brooks on Refunding the Community”