Resources from Season 2 - Episode 9: “Disrupting The Frontline of Fascism: Prisons and Policing with Rachel Herzing”
Resources
Reading
What is the Prison Industrial Complex? What is Abolition? from Critical Resistance
Learn about the Military Industrial Complex
GA Abortion Ban Forces Family to Keep Woman Declared Brain Dead on Life Support
Community Movement Builders, “What is a Cop City? (this is from Episode 2)
“The Punishment System and Fascism Go Hand in Hand” Rachel Herzing, Amelia Kirby, Jack Norton
“The Terrain of Struggle,” Rachel Herzing
How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment with Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché
Check out the Movement Resource Library from Community Resource Hub and learn more about organizing against imprisonment and policing, and how to build alternatives
“Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR,” Elena Shao and Benjamin Mullin, New York Times
“By Refusing To Show Faces or Badges, ICE Opens Door to Vigilante Impersonators,” Daniel Moritz-Rabson, Truthout
“Surge in U.S. Concern About Immigration Has Abated,” Lydia Saad, Gallup
“Jeffrey Epstein,” Wikipedia
Read Block and Build but Make It Abolitionist to learn about abolitionist strategies for fighting the fascist agenda from Interrupting Criminalization and co-founder Andrea Ritchie
Watching
Take Action
Join Critical Resistance and support their work to abolish the prison industrial complex
Attend One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism
Protect Immigrant Communities! Join the Here to Stay Network with United We Dream
Attend It’s Giving Feminist Mutual Aid by the Women’s March. Learn about Mutual Aid and How Communities Can Support Through Changing Political Conditions
Defend immigrant communities from ICE raids: Attend Trainings and Actions through the Defend and Recruit Project of SIEMBRA NC
Write to your congressperson about the Block the Bombs Act!
Attend the Katrina 20 Movement Assembly and Join the Katrina 20 Week of Action
Donate to The Fascism Barometer and support us in continuing to create episodes and resources for you!
Donate to Mohsan Mahdawi’s immigrant legal defense fund! Support the Vermont Immigrant Legal Defense Fund
Attend the Stop Cop Cities Everywhere workshop with Workshops 4 Gaza
Organize in Solidarity: a 5-week training series on organizing our communities to resist ICE
Get Support at the Resisting Criminalization Help Desk by Interrupting Criminialization
Check out the All of US Directory, a sortable database that seeks to make it possible for newly activated people to easily connect with organizing and mutual aid efforts.