Community-Recommended Resources
Here are some of our community members’ favorite political education & praxis-related resources!
- Critical Resistance’s CR Abolition Organizing Toolkit
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore and James Kilgore on The Case for Abolition from The Marshall Project
- Love and Protect & Survived and Punished’s toolkit, #SurvivedAndPunished: Survivor Defense as Abolitionist Praxis
- Abolition Journal’s If You’re New to Abolition: Study Group Guide
- Abolitionist Futures’ Resource Guide
- Christians for Abolition’s resource overview
- Christians for Abolition’s Toolkit on Building Space for Non-Punitive Accountability in Christian Communities
- Christians for Abolition’s Introduction to Abolitionist Theologies curriculum
- Mennonite USA’s curriculum, “Defund the Police? An Abolition Curriculum”
- “Becoming Abolitionists” by Derecka Purnell
- “Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- “We Do This ‘Til We Free Us” by Mariame Kaba
- “Beyond Survival: Strategies & Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement” edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- “Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prison, and Torture” by Angela Davis
- “Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex” by CR-10 Publications Collective
- The Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective’s Pod Mapping exercise as a practice of transformative justice and abolition
Penpaling Resources
- National list of Books to Prisoners Projects. Get your pen pal connected to resources for free books!
Looking to write your first letter? Here are some ideas to help you get started! - Some former volunteers developed this sample letter to help outside penpals with writing letters of support for their inside penpal’s parole hearing(s)
- Check out this collaboratively created – and actively growing – compilation of resources that your penpal might be interested in
- Other organizations have created wonderful guides for penpal letter writing, such as this one from Survived & Punished or this one from the SxHx Collective.