Study resource South Chicago Anarchist Black Cross Zine Distro and True Leap Press The graphics are originally from the Critical Resistance Abolitionist Organizer's Toolkit DOWNLOAD HERE: Abolitionist Thumbnail Definitions
“Rethinking the American Prison Movement” – Three Chapters by Berger and Losier
1968 - 1972 Revolution: The Prison Rebellion Years https://osab995883282.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/the-prison-rebellion-years-68-72.pdf 1972 - 1980 Unions, Feminism, and the Crisis of Prison Managerialism https://osab995883282.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/unions-feminism-and-prison-manegerialism-72-80.pdf 1980 - 1998 Retrenchment: Mass Incarceration and the Remaking of the Prison Movement https://osab995883282.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/mass-imprisonment-and-the-remaking-of-the-prison-movement-80-98.pdf
“to weave together the many and increasing strands of resistance to the prison industrial complex”
In the 1998 essay "Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex", Angela Davis writes: The emergence of a U.S. prison industrial complex within a context of cascading conservatism marks a new historical moment, whose dangers are unprecedented. But so are its opportunities. Considering the impressive number of grassroots projects that continue to resist … Continue reading “to weave together the many and increasing strands of resistance to the prison industrial complex”
Reading notes – McKittrick Demonic Grounds
Katherine McKittrick asks: “[W]hat kinds of possibilities emerge when black studies encounters human geography...?” She writes further: “Connecting black studies and human geography opens up three meaningful points: first, as mentioned, are the ways in which disciplinary and epistemological desires privilege traditional geographic options; second, are the ways in which traditional geographic aims in … Continue reading Reading notes – McKittrick Demonic Grounds
Two PIC Abolition History Lessons with Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore
"On Saturday, September 14, 2019, over 400 community members joined Critical Resistance to pack the house at the Watts Labor Community Action Committee for an evening of political conversation, food, music, and celebration. The event featured a keynote by Ruthie Wilson Gilmore. This was an extra special evening hosted by Critical Resistance, California Coalition for … Continue reading Two PIC Abolition History Lessons with Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Joy James: The Architects of Abolitionism
from its roots with George Jackson and Angela Davis, to the de-radicalization of prison abolitionism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9rvRsWKDx0
The ABCF Caucus of Men Against Sexism – Vol. 2, Iss 1 (October 2000)
The ABCF Caucus of Men Against Sexism - Vol. 2, Iss 1 (October 2000) Download url below: ABCF Caucus of Men Against Sexism
Anarchist Black Cross, Information and Resource Guide (from 2002)
Excerpt: In the 1970’s, Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin wrote a series of pamphlets from prison that included A Draft Proposal for on Anarchist Block Cross Network and Anarchism and the Black Revolution. In the 1980’s, the ABC expanded with collectives working in many regions around the world. In 1989 an Emergency Response Network (ERN) was set … Continue reading Anarchist Black Cross, Information and Resource Guide (from 2002)
Black Alert – bulletin of the Anarchist Black Cross – Anti-Repression Network (2003)
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 a proposal for a formal multi-tendency / non-sectarian ARN, within which the ABC would continue to produce Black Alert as an ARN publication. By this stage, the ABC was a “member collective” of the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation (later … Continue reading Black Alert – bulletin of the Anarchist Black Cross – Anti-Repression Network (2003)
The Internationalist Origins of the Anarchist Black Cross, and a Brief History of the ABC Federation
While there are rightful criticisms of the ABC formations as they are socially (and racially) formed in North America, particularly in the United States, there is no mistaking the historic influence and political impact that this particularly effective model of "inside/outside" prison abolitionist organization, PP/POW solidarity activism, popular anti-oppression pedagogy, and aspirationally horizontal networks of mutual aid … Continue reading The Internationalist Origins of the Anarchist Black Cross, and a Brief History of the ABC Federation
