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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