Abolition and Mutual Aid Resources (to be constantly updated)

*note: these are orgs/readings/folx I'm suggesting because I have personally read their work/heard them speak/seen their impact/organized with. This is a non-comprehensive list that is constantly being updated as I further organize and educate myself further.

Reading

• 8toAbolition (not to be confused with the reformist 8Can'tWait campaign)

• Reform vs Abolition

• Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police by Mariame Kaba

• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis

• Abolitionist Futures (full reading and course list)

• Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought

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

• Letter to My Detained Family

Audio/Video

• Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes The Case for Abolition

• Abolishing Prisons with Mariame Kaba

• Mariame Kaba Offers a People's History of Prisons in the U.S.

• The Willful Confusion of Whiteness- Sonya Renee Taylor

• Beyond Prisons Podcast

Organizations

• Critical Resistance

• The Marshall Project

• Movement 4 Black Lives (M4BL)

• Asian Prisoners Support

• Abolish the NYPD

• Southerners On New Ground (SONG)

• SEAC Village

• Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)

Orgs working to free incarcerated people

• Free Them All 4 Public Health 2020

• Covid BailOut NYC

• National Bail Out

Orgs supporting and/or distributing COVID funds (prioritizing native/ undocumented / immigrant folx)

• RAISENYC

• SeeLightingFoundation

• UndocuBlack Network

• Black Hills Legal Defense Fund

Mutual Aid in NYC

https://mutualaid.nyc/groups/

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GRAND HORIZONS

by Bess Wohl

Directed by Leigh Silverman

Starring James Cromwell, Jane Alexander, Pricilla Lopez, Michael Urie, Ashley Park, Ben McKenzie, and Malik Pancholy

(Understudying Ashley Park in the role of Jess)

Dec 23, 2019-March 1, 2020