So You're Thinking About Becoming an Abolitionist by Mariame Kaba
An excerpt from We Do This 'Til We Free Us in which Kaba lays down a basic roadmap for an abolitionist mindset.
How I Became a Police Abolitionist by Derecka Purnell
The article that was later expanded into Becoming Abolitionists, Purnell lays out the path she took from fighting for police reform to fighting for a world that doesn't need policing.
A World Without Police: A Conversation Between Derecka Purnell and Dean Spade
A conversation about police abolition between Derecka Purnell and author/activist Dean Spade (Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next)).
Abolition Documentary, written and directed by Taína Asili for the Social Justice Portal Project, featuring Derecka Purnell, Aislinn Pulley of the Chicago Torture Justice Center, and Greisa Martínez Rosas of United We Dream.
Angela Davis explains that defunding the police is a strategy of growth, not reduction, in terms of shifting funds for police budgets over to essential human services.
Derecka Purnell speaks to Trevor Noah about the basics of abolition and the nuance of how to speak about it depending on the intended audience.
A Project Nia video explaining the basic concept behind Defunding the Police in order to shift much-needed resources away from bloated police budgets and into community projects.
Mariame Kaba speaks with Democracy Now about the uprisings of 2020 which followed the murder of George Floyd and the need for Transformative Justice instead of punitive policing.