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DIRECTORY OF RESOURCES FOR BLACK LIBERATION

In response to the raised awareness and activism regarding police brutality, Black liberation, and dismantling white supremacy, we have created a directory of resources for those looking to get involved in the movement. Here you will find lists of resources, petitions, readings, bail funds.

We will continue to update this list over the following weeks. If you are aware of a resource we should add, please fill out this form. 

PAGE LAST UPDATED ON 10/20/21

GENERAL RESOURCES

A Guide to Managing Resources This short thread by Vanessa Newman shares some helpful tips to avoiding resource overload, and to organizing resources as you find them so that you can commit to engaging with them in a sustained way.

Ways To Help
This is a compiled list of ways to help the Black Lives Matter movement. 

National Resource List
This document comprehensively catalogues resources for the movement including legal services, bail funds, advice for protestors, and community projects. 

Compiled List of Mutual Aid Initiatives for BLM Protestors
This is a compiled list by Fordham University Students contains community mutual aid funds, fundraisers, and jail bail funds for protesters

Black Funds to Support - BUFU
This is a list of black funds and creative ecosystems to support, curated by the BUFU collective.

Abolition

If You’re New to Abolition: Study Group Guide This Study Guide provides a suggested design for a six-week study group that provides readings / viewings / listenings to provide an introduction to the history and practice of abolition.

#8toAbolition
This campaign provides clear and practical information about the need for abolition in our communities. 

Abolish NYPD Document
This document provides recommendations for abolition and defunding the NYPD. 

Freedom & Captivity Freedom & Captivity is a state-wide public humanities initiative during Fall 2021 to bring critical perspectives from the humanities to the interrogation of incarceration.

Opinion | Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police
This NYTimes Opinion piece by Mariame Kaba clearly explains the community's request to defund the police and what is meant by that. 

Resource Guide: Policing, Prisons, and Punishment This exhaustive list of resources compiled (and updated each month) by Micah Herskind shares short articles, full books, podcasts, videos, and documentaries to help learn more about the Abolition of Prisons and Policing.

An Abolitionist Response to White Supremacy A short article that grounds responses to the white supremacist insurrection at the Capitol on 01/06 in abolitionist values.

Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective Readings and Media Collection of readings, audio, videos, and other tools that represent years of learning, practicing, and organizing around transformative justice, community accountability, abolition, and alternatives to the criminal legal system. 

TransformHarm.org TransformHarm.org is a resource hub about ending violence. It contains a range of resources and tools on the subjects of: transformative justice, community accountability, restorative justice, abolition, healing justice, and carceral feminisms.

Equity within Non-Profit Organizations

Arts Workers for Black Lives
This is an open letter from Arts and Cultural Workers of NYC, demanding the defunding of the police and investment in BIPOC Communities.

Non-profit AF
This blog offers valuable down to earth information and perspectives for non-profit organizations. Particularly right now, for organizations looking for models for internal racial equity and inclusion work.