In the 1998 essay “Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex”, Angela Davis writes: The emergence of a … Continue reading “to weave together the many and increasing strands of resistance to the prison industrial complex”
1968 – 1972 Revolution: The Prison Rebellion Years Click to access the-prison-rebellion-years-68-72.pdf 1972 – 1980 Unions, Feminism, and … Continue reading “Rethinking the American Prison Movement” – Three Chapters by Berger and Losier
As I see it the “prison industrial complex” forms the geographic template and cartography of struggle for abolitionists, as it … Continue reading Reading notes – McKittrick Demonic Grounds
from its roots with George Jackson and Angela Davis, to the de-radicalization of prison abolitionism Continue reading Joy James: The Architects of Abolitionism
Excerpt: In the 1970’s, Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin wrote a series of pamphlets from prison that included A Draft Proposal for … Continue reading Anarchist Black Cross, Information and Resource Guide (from 2002)
The August 2003 third issue of Black Alert was billed as the publication of the Anarchist Black Cross-Anti-Repression Network (ABC-ARN). It included … Continue reading Black Alert – bulletin of the Anarchist Black Cross – Anti-Repression Network (2003)
While there are rightful criticisms of the ABC formations as they are socially (and racially) formed in North America, particularly … Continue reading The Internationalist Origins of the Anarchist Black Cross, and a Brief History of the ABC Federation
BIBLIOGRAPHY Abu-Jamal, Mumia. Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisons v. the U.S. San Francisco: City Lights, 2009. —. Live from … Continue reading Working Bibliography
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This is the first issue of The Abolitionist, published in Spring of 2005 by Critical Resistance-Oakland.… Continue reading First Issue of The Abolitionist, Spring 2005
In a December 2018 webinar hosted by Critical Resistance, several co-founding members reflected on their participation in and experience with … Continue reading Conferences as a Vehicle for Abolitionist Organizing
