Abolitionist Book Club
Abolitionist Book Club (ABC) is for community members invested in accountability, harm reduction, and transformative justice. As aspiring abolitionists, we aim to uproot the prison industrial complex, policing, and surveillance and instead plant models for community care.Twice a month, ABC gathers to read books, editorials, and articles about abolition; discuss alternatives to punishment and imprisonment; and strategize for collective liberation.Outside of our bimonthly book club meetings, we put in the work.
ABC December 2024 BookFor our first book club pick, we will be reading Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba.ABC's virtual meeting will be on Tuesday, December 10th at 6-7:30pm PST. Sign up to receive the link.ABC's in-person meeting will be on Saturday, December 14 at 2pm PST in King County, WA. Sign up to receive location and more information.Below are links for the Let This Radicalize You workbook and discussion guide, provided by publisher Haymarket Books.
ABC January 2025 Book
We start the new year by practicing a new world! In January, we will read and discuss Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emerging Strategies by Andrea J. Ritchie with a foreward by Alexis Pauline Gumbs and introduction by adrienne maree brown.AK Press is currently offering Practicing New Worlds for FREE!
ABC's virtual meeting will be on Tuesday, January 14th at 6-7:30pm PST. Sign up to receive the link.ABC's in-person meeting on Saturday, January 18th at 2pm PST in King County, WA. Sign up to receive location and more information.Below are links for the Practicing New Worlds' reading and discussion guide, shared by AK Press.
Voices from Inside
Political Education & Organizing Resources
- How to Survive the End of the World: Laurence McKeown, Prisoner to Playwright
- Critical Resistance's Political Education Overview
Introduction to Abolitionism
Introduction to Transformative Justice