Resources
TBR Literature
Camila’s Abolition Reading List
This guide contains numerous free and online pieces that address abolition, transformative justice, accountability, and other topics central to the movement. Most, if not all, of the writers are black and indigenous people.
Funder Education Briefings
Presentation on the CAHOOTS Program
CAHOOTS came out of a community to ask, need, and demand less police involvement in situations where they did not have the training and escalated already harmful situations.
Other cities around the country, including Oakland and Denver, have implemented similar community-based response and support programs. We believe that a program similar to CAHOOTS would be very beneficial in Cambridge.
Presentation on Transformative Justice
Here's a presentation about transformative justice and how it could be implemented in our society, as well as educational links in case you want to learn more!
Presentation on the History of
Black LIVES MATTER
The Massachusetts Alternative
Public Safety Landscape
Borealis Report on the Community Care Network Convening Program
Making Sense of the Alternative Highway
By
Stephanie Guirand & Sara Suzuki
The 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings uplifted the abolitionist movement agenda to create alternatives to carceral approaches to public safety. The 2020 uprisings, like the 1992 Los Angeles uprisings before them, seem to follow a cyclical pattern: state violence, communities build alternatives, repeat. But where did the previous alternative public safety programs go?