Abolition
Interrupting Criminalization
Interrupting Criminalization is an initiative led by researchers Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie. The project aims to interrupt and end the growing criminalization and incarceration of women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people of color for criminalized acts related to public order, poverty, child welfare, drug use, survival and self-defense, including criminalization and incarceration of survivors of violence.
Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work (NAASW)
The Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work (NAASW) strives to amplify a practice of social work aimed at dismantling the prison industrial complex (PIC) and building the life-affirming horizon to which abolition aspires. Our efforts include:
Ongoing political education
Research / knowledge generation around carceral and abolition social work
Developing an online hub of abolitionist social work resources
Broader organizing and advocacy efforts to insert abolitionist ideas and practices into social work.
Freedom Agenda
Freedom Agenda is a member-led project, dedicated to organizing people and communities directly impacted by incarceration to achieve decarceration and system transformation.
Dignity and Power Now!
Dignity and Power Now (DPN) is a Los Angeles based grassroots organization founded in 2012 that fights for the dignity and power of all incarcerated people, their families, and communities. Our mission is to build a Black and Brown led abolitionist movement rooted in community power towards the goal of achieving transformative justice and healing justice for all incarcerated people, their families, and communities.
Anti-Police Terror Project
The Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. We support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing. APTP began as a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee.
True Node Therapy's Abolition Resource List
Abolitionist therapist Ruth Spalding has also compiled a large list of abolition resources.
Mariame Kaba's Abolition Syllabus
An introductory syllabus to abolition.
Abolition Centered Care Provider Database
For a list of providers who center abolition in their care work, please check out this spreadsheet. Curated and updated by Dandelion Hill from Peer Support Space.
Critical Resistance
CR is committed to building and expanding the movement against the prison industrial complex (PIC) by encouraging work at a local level. Our goal is to inspire people in all communities to join forces in the movement against the destructive effects of the PIC. We currently have chapters in Oakland, Los Angeles, Portland and New York.
Project NIA
Project NIA — “nia” meaning “with purpose” in Swahili—is a grassroots organization that works to end the arrest, detention, and incarceration of children and young adults by promoting restorative and transformative justice practices.
We support youth in trouble with the law as well as those victimized by violence and crime through community-based alternatives to the criminal legal process. We partner with local activists and organizations to create such alternatives.
Abolitionist Toolbox
Abolitionist Toolbox from Project NIA.
Mutual Aid Toolbox
Big Door Brigade’s mutual aid toolbox, which includes resources on prisoner support, cop watching, legal support, self-defense, parole, and bail funds.
Riot Medicine
A full-length textbook on how to practice insurrectionary medicine .