An Abolitionist Resource List
An Abolitionist Resource List
Toronto, Canada - June 17, 2020
“...I have been locked by the lawless.
Handcuffed by the haters.
Gagged by the greedy.
And, if i know any thing at all,
it’s that a wall is just a wall
and nothing more at all.
It can be broken down.
DDD
I believe in living.
I believe in birth.
I believe in the sweat of love
and in the fire of truth.”
From Affirmation by Assata Shakur
Immediate Action
Donate to Black-Led and Transformative Organizations
BLM - Toronto - https://blacklivesmatter.ca/donate/; Disability Justice Network of Ontario; Jane-Finch Action Against Poverty; Black Creek Community Farms - https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/32601; Black Women in Motion; Black Legal Action Centre - https://donorbox.org/donate-to-blac; Groundswell Fund - https://groundswellfund.ca/
Protest: Defund the Police TO - organized @BlackLove.TO
June 20th from 12pm - 4pm, meeting at Nathan Phillips Square
“We Keep Eachother Safe” - A Community Forum to Organize Alternatives to the Police
Hosted by Toronto Prisoners' Rights Project
Read the full call to action: https://tinyurl.com/communityforumTO
Register to give a statement at the forum here: https://forms.gle/KbUL9YQMQ2bXZPiPA
Contribute to the discussion online with #WeKeepEachOtherSafeTO
Petition: Calling for defunding of Toronto Police Service
Follow Local Organizing - centering the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and people of colour in Toronto through Black Lives Matter Toronto, PASAN, Toronto Prisoners’ Rights Project, Maggie’s, Butterfly, Jane-Finch Action Against Poverty, No One is Illegal, Not another Black Life, and so many more.
Get Involved with Protest Legal Support - Contact the Movement Defense Committee at lawunionmdc@gmail.com.
Background Reading
Short Read: Canada has a Racism Crisis and It’s Killing Black and Indigenous Peoples
Pam Palmatar, June 3, 2020
Short Read: Defunding The Police Will Save Black And Indigenous Lives In Canada
Sandy Hudson, June 2020
Also see book on BLM-TO “Until We are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada”
Short Read: Black Canadians are suffering under a racist policing system too
Robyn Maynard, June 2020
Also see her book: Policing Black Lives”
Short Read: Yes, We Mean Literally Defunding the Police
Mariame Kaba, June 2020
Short Listen: Case for Defunding the Police in Toronto
Desmond Cole, June 2020
Also see his book: “The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power”
Defund the Police Canada-based Panel: Toronto Prisoners’ Rights Project: Black Liberation and Prison Abolition
Speakers include:
- Ashanti Omowali Alston, Black Liberation Army & Black Panther Party
- Viviane Saleh-Hanna, Professor and Chairperson of Crime and Justice Studies at UMass Dartmouth
- Sandy Hudson, Black Lives Matter-Toronto & Black Legal Action Centre
- Robyn Maynard, Abolition Coalition; Author, "Policing Black Lives"
- Morgan Switzer-Rodney, BlackChat Vancouver
Moderated by Syrus Marcus-Ware, artist, activist, scholar; BLM-TO; Toronto Prisoners' Rights Project; Abolition Coalition
Abolition Panel: On the Road With Abolition: Assessing Our Steps Along the Way
We are in a historic moment brought on by the consistent exertion of people power across the country and around the world. This has brought us to a place where our communities are poised to win significant victories against the violence of policing on a large scale. To guide us in this moment, we need to hold central that Abolition is both a vision and a political strategy. Part of this strategy is recognizing and actualizing that we cannot call for reforms that further entrench and legitimize policing in any form as a solution to social, economic or political problems. As prison industrial complex abolitionists, the reforms we call for in our demands must be aimed at diminishing the political power of policing. How can we assess which proposals to support or to oppose in our organizing? What are some abolitionist proposals? Join Dean Spade, Woods Ervin & Kamau Walton from Critical Resistance, K Agbebiyi from Survived and Punished NY and Mariame Kaba from Project NIA and Survived & Punished to discuss these questions and more. Join us for this conversation to deepen our shared analysis and to discuss how we use abolition as a politic, practice and framework to move us toward liberation and self-determination.
Strategy for Defense of Black Communities Panel: Making Meaning of this Moment, Forging an Abolitionist Strategy for Defending Black Communities
Organized by Movement for Black Lives
Reading List: Spring Magazine’s Abolition the Police Reader
Reading List: Critical Resistance’s Abolitionist Toolkit
Reading List: Whose Land Is It Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization
Organized by Pam Palmatar
Healing & Action - Generative Somatics presentation https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CZPkIXrS3iF7l2K5J4kQj6mn2RIFrkY7QsjE_pXMXC4/edit?usp=sharing
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