Introduction - Koshka Duff

Practising Everyday Abolition - Sarah Lamble

Original article: https://batjc.wordpress.com/resources/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/

Session 6 of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list. For the full readings see here: https://abolitionistfutures.com/everyday-abolition-2022

Pods and Pod-Mapping Worksheet - Mia Mingus

Original Article: https://abolitionistfutures.com/s/The-Abolitionist-Number-1-Editorial.pdf

Session 1 of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list. For the full readings see here: https://abolitionistfutures.com/intro-to-abolition-2022

Radical Alternatives to Prison - The Abolitionist

Original article: https://abolitionistfutures.com/defund-the-police

Session 2 of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list. For the full readings see here: https://abolitionistfutures.com/whats-wrong-with-reform-2022

Reformist Reforms Vs Abolitionist Steps For UK Policing - Abolitionist Futures

Original article: https://level.medium.com/so-youre-thinking-about-becoming-an-abolitionist-a436f8e31894

Session 1 of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list. For the full readings see here: https://abolitionistfutures.com/intro-to-abolition-2022

So You’re Thinking about Becoming an Abolitionist - Mariame Kaba

Original article: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j2qGd6QyiOa_Li6cdsrNJ0HuVBUCSi1E/view

Session 4 of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list. For the full readings see here: https://abolitionistfutures.com/policing-antiracism-abolition-2022

Should I Call The Police? - Steps To Ask Yourself Before Calling The Police

Original article: https://truthout.org/articles/what-to-do-when-you-have-been-abusive/

Session 5 of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list. For the full readings see here: https://abolitionistfutures.com/transformative-justice-2022

Kai Cheng Thom (2020) What to do when you’ve been abusive. Truthout.org

Original article: https://www.creative-interventions.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CI-Toolkit-Final-Section-1-Introduction-Aug-2020.pdf

Session 5 of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list. For the full readings see here: https://abolitionistfutures.com/transformative-justice-2022

Creative Interventions Project (2020) What is our bigger vision? (Section 1, page 16-17)

From 'Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)', by Dean Spade. Published by Verso Books, in October 2020. 

Reading part of Session 6 (Everyday Abolition)of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list 2020. For the full readings see here: abolitionistfutures.com/whats-wrong-with-reform

Mutual aid - Building solidarity during this crisis (and the next)

Three key elements of mutual aid - Dean Spade

Reading of 'The False Promise of Hate Crime Laws' by Sarah Lamble

Reading part of Session  3(Feminist, Queer, Antiracist Abolition)of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list 2022. For the full readings see here: https://abolitionistfutures.com/feminist-queer-antiracist-abolition-2022

Lamble - The False Promise Of Hate Crime Laws

Reading of ' Policing by Consent' my Mediocre Dave

Reading part of Session  4(Policing, Anti-Racism & Abolition)of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list 2022. For the full readings see here: https://abolitionistfutures.com/policing-antiracism-abolition-2022

Policing By Consent ‐ Mediocre Dave

Reading of Excerpt from Chapter 6: Futures of Black resistance: disruption, rebellion, abolition. Black Resistance to British Policing by Adam Elliot-Cooper

Reading part of Session  4(Policing, Anti-Racism & Abolition)of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list 2022. For the full readings see here: https://abolitionistfutures.com/policing-antiracism-abolition-2022

Adam Elliot-Cooper - Excerpt from Chapter 6: Futures of Black Resistance

Reading of Ann Russo(2019) - Chapter 6: Everyday Responses to Everyday Violence from Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power. New York: New York University Press, p. 132-142.

Reading part of Session 6 (Everyday Abolition)of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list 2020. For the full readings see here: abolitionistfutures.com/whats-wrong-with-reform

Ann Russo(2019) - Chapter 6: Everyday Responses to Everyday Violence

‘Ask Any Woman’, Ruth Hall, Issue 19, 1985’ (4 pages)

Ask Any Woman - Ruth Hall

Women in Prison - A Historical Overview’, Joe Sim, Issue 8, Spring 1981 (4 pages)

Original article: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xd0gCS4-RJWlzABwO3J3AMW40UIRo2Ks/view

Women in Prison : A Historical Overview - Joe Sim

From The Abolitionist. Original article: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R_HhgJi0G9EEk4VAIQoYtGm_d_l7rGKe/view

Mailbag - Armagh Jail Outrage

Content Warning: This article was written in 1983 and deals with death, and describes suicide mean, and publishes suicide notes. Since this time much work has been done in terms of reporting suicides. 

Please excercise caution before listening

Not A Happy Place - Tony Ward (CW deals with death & suicide)

Content Warning: This article was written in 1983 and deals with death; decomposing bodies and state violence.

INQUEST: On Cell Death - David Leadbetter issue 13; 1983

The Experiment That Went Wrong, from 'The Abolitionist' journal, Issue 20, 1985.

The Experiment That Went Wrong, 'The Abolitionist' Issue 20, 1985

Policing and coercion: what are the alternatives? - Guy Aitchison

Theorizing Transformative Justice - Melanie Brazzell

Beyond Policing, for the Politics of Breathing - Vanessa E. Thompson

Black Lives and the State of Distraction  - Eddie Bruce-Jones

Session 2 of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list. For the full readings see here: https://abolitionistfutures.com/whats-wrong-with-reform

The Tension Between Abolition and Reform - Liat Ben-Mosche

Original Article: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/prison-abolition-reform-mass-incarceration

Session 2 of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list. For the full readings see here: https://abolitionistfutures.com/whats-wrong-with-reform

What Abolitionists Do - Dan Berger, Mariame Kaba and David Stein

Critical Resistance and INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence (2008) Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex. In: Critical Resistance (ed.) Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex. Oakland, California: AK Press, pp. 21-25. [5 pages].

INCITE! and Critical Resistance - Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex

Julia Sudbury - Rethinking Antiviolence Strategies - 27 07 2020, 18.40

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Aorta Collective - Punitive Restorative & Transformative Justice The Basics

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Critical Resistance - What Is Abolition?

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GenerationFive - A Transformative Justice Handbook, 'Community Response and Accountability’

Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective - ‘Transformative Justice and Community Accountability’

Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete: Introduction

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