Local Resources
Resources to support the Minneapolis Protests (Google Doc).
Things you can do to support the movement, including scripts to call representatives, suggested action items to support the Minneapolis protests and community, and important phone numbers (Google Doc).
Uprising MN: A Regularly Updated Site on How to Support Black Organizing in the Twin Cities.
Additional Reading
BLVC + Reclaim the Block (Google Doc).
“Are Prisons Obsolete?” by Angela Davis.
“The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander. (PDF)
“Editorial counterpoint: We must look beyond police for community safety” by Tony Williams, Leilah Abdennabi and Sheila Nezhad.
“The End of Policing” by Alex Vitale.
“Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex” by the CR-10 Publications Collective (PDF)
“The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy” by Michael G. Hanchard.
Watch
Democracy Now. Minneapolis Organizers: “Defund the police and invest in community”.