Things to Read
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SHORT
- #SayHerName: using digital activism to document violence against black women
- Military surveillance on grad strikers
- Confessions of a former bastard cop
- cop gangs cost taxpayers millions
- racial disparities in stops due to bad strategy
- Police dismiss complaints of racial profiling
- Remove Barriers For Those With Convictions Who Have Served Their Time by Ryan Flaco Rising
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BOOKS
- The Golden Gulag by Ruth Gilmore
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
- A World Without Police by Geo Maher
- Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Purnell
- Policing the Planet by Jordan T. Camp
- Slavery By Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon
- From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime by Elizabeth Hinton
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Accounts/Organizations to Follow and Support:
INSTAGRAM:
@uc_ftp
@thefakepan
@kjg.brks
@reclaimtheblock
@undergroundscholarsucsb
@bailproject
@c_c_w_p
@nationalbailout
@richiereseda
TIK TOK:
@mistercapehart
Things to Watch​
- The 13th (available on Netflix and Youtube)
- Girlhood (Documentary, Director Liz Garbus, 2003)
- Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners
- When They See Us (on Netflix)
Organizations:
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Underground Scholars
The Bail Project
CA Coalition for Women Prisoners
National Bail Out
8 to Abolition
Anti Police-Terror Project
Black Alliance for Peace
Critical Resistance
Justice LA
The Movement for Black Lives
Prison Policy Initiative
Prisoner Advocacy Network
Worth Rises
Equal Justice Initiative
Law for Black Lives
Mass Freedom
Project NIA
Sentencing Project