Broadening Our Ideas of Climate Justice Session 3: Prison Abolition and Climate Justice

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Ways to plug in and keep learning: 

• Recommend following Interrupting Criminalization on all platforms – https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/

• Get involved with the Hip Hop Caucus: https://hiphopcaucus.org/

• Get involved with Fight Toxic Prisons: https://www.instagram.com/fighttoxicprisons/?hl=en

• Connect with Stephone Coward from Hip Hop Caucus on this type of work to use financial levers of power:

  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephonecowardii/

  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mostephone/

• Build a study group with your friends.

• Puget Sound Prisoner Support – https://psps.noblogs.org/

• Become a penpal with some incarcerated and build relationships.

• Support Bryant Arroyo

• Support GZ https://tinyurl.com/gzlegalfund

• You can support against retaliation against WA DOC prisoners by also educating yourself about the Cultural Collectives and the fight to maintain them – https://www.liberationmedianw.org/cultural-collective

• Community Abolition 101 Syllabus developed by Nikkita Oliver: https://sites.google.com/view/letstalkaboutabolition/community-syllabus?authuser=0#h.ja7cb8usy7hg

Books:

• Coal, Cages, Crisis by Judah Schept which looks at the buildout of prisons in Appalachia amidst the decline of coal: https://nyupress.org/9781479858972/coal-cages-crisis/

• Gold Gulag – https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242012/golden-gulag

• Abolition Geography – https://www.akpress.org/abolition-geography.html

• Also a great chapter in Are Prisons Obsolete- https://www.akpress.org/areprisonsobsolete.html

• Elite Capture great book on identity politics – https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745347851/elite-capture/

• Also, zine on Racial Capitalism and Prison Abolition – https://issuu.com/racialcapitalism/docs/racial_capitalism___prison_abolition_lr