Resources
Organizations to follow:
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Critical Resistance @criticalresistance
Initiate Justice @initiateustice
Justice LA @justicelanow
Californians United for a Responsible Budget @curbprisons
California Coalition for Women Prisoners @c_c_w_p
Community Coalition @cocosouthla
Dignity and Power Now @dignityandpowernow
Reform LA Jails @reformlajails
Black Lives Matter @blklivesmatter
Black Lives Matter Los Angeles Chapter @blmlosangeles
Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org
Movement for Black Lives @mvmnt4blklives
The MOVE Organization @themoveorganization
The Nap Ministry @thenapministry
Asians for Mental Health @asiansformentalhealth
People to follow:
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Patrisse Cullors @osopepatrisse
Marc Lamont Hill @marclamonthill
Brittany Packnett @mspackyetti
Tiffany Loftin @tiffanydloftin
Tamika Mallory @tamikadmallory
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Mariame Kaba
Angela Davis
How to Engage:
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Start within yourself, your relationships, your work, and your social spaces.
Stay aware and as engaged as possible with what is going on on a county, city, state, national, and international level.
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Donate and take action with the organizations listed above.
Donate and volunteer with JAILBEDDROP.
Articles and Conversations:
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Justice in America Podcast: Mariame Kaba and Prison Abolition - Podcast
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Intercepted. - Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes The Case For Abolition - Podcast
Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police by Mariame Kaba - Article
America, This Is Your Chance by Michelle Alexander - Article
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Books:
The End to Policing by Alex Vitale
Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, Second Edition by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
When they Call you a Terrorist by Patrisse Cullors
Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan
“Freedom is a Constant Struggle: from Ferguson to Palestine” by Angela Davis