PIC Abolition Resources

PIC Abolition Resources has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in April 2021. Resources abolition__resources has populated their site with include: • Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police by Mariame Kaba • Graphic: Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps in policing • How I Became a Police Abolitionist by Derecka Purnell • The Abolition Movement by Josie Duffy Rice • #8toAbolition by K Agbebiyi, Micah Herskind, and many more • Blue Bloods: America’s Brotherhood of Police Officers by Eve L. Ewing • We Should Still Defund the Police by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor • If We Abolish Police, What Happens to Rapists? by Cassandra Mensah • Audio: AirGo Ep 253 - The Abolition Suite Vol. 2: Mariame Kaba • Why “Crime” Isn’t the Question and Police Aren’t the Answer by Alec Karakatsanis • The Defunding Debate by Jack Herrera • Reforms Won’t Save Us, Abolishing the Police Will by Nnennaya Amuchie, Mon Mohapatra, and Leila Raven • How Defund and Disband Became the Demands by Amna A. Akbar • Mariame Kaba: Everything Worthwhile Is Done With Other People by Eve L. Ewing • Protests Are Galvanizing Demands to Take Cops Out of Schools by Sarah Jones • Terror and Abolition by Atiya Husain • Police Abolitionists Aren’t ‘Too Radical’ – They’ve Been Making Gains for Decades by Sarah Jaffe • Audio: Intercepted, Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Abolition with Chenjerai Kumanyika • The Struggle to Abolish the Police Is Not New by Garrett Felber • What We Talk About When We Talk About Defunding the Police by Steven Hale • The Police Have Shown Their True Colors by Amanda Terkel • How Much Do We Need The Police? by Leah Donnella • Don’t Let Cops Join Our Protests by Derecka Purnell • Arresting the Carceral State by Mariame Kaba & Erica R. Meiners • Don’t Use Sexual Assault Survivors to Justify Police and Incarceration by Kylie Cheung • Police abolitionists find fuel in the protests by Maya Dukmasova • The George Floyd Killing in Minneapolis Exposes the Failures of Police Reform by Alice Speri, Alleen Brown, Mara Hvistendahl • To Win Justice in the Names of Ahmaud, Breonna, and George, We Must Defund the Police by Molly Talcott • No More Money for the Police by Philip V. McHarris and Thenjiwe McHarris • The answer to police violence is not 'reform'. It's defunding. by Alex S Vitale • Mass Incarceration Is Dead, Long Live the Carceral State by Naomi Murakawa • Summer Heat By Mariame Kaba • Interrupting Criminalization: an initiative at the BCRW Social Justice Institute • Abolition for the People: Angela Y. Davis, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Robin D.G. Kelley, and numerous others • Even More Resources: Prisons, Policing, and Punishment -- a collection by Micah Herskind • Longer Reads: Transformative Justice and Prison Abolition Booklist