Lessons in Liberation () von The Education for Liberation Network & Critical Resistance Editorial Collective

A political vision for a future ripe with alternatives to imprisonment and punishment.

PART ONE: Openings/Groundings

Building Our Analysis

• Fierce Urgency of Now! —Farima, Chrissy, Patricia, and Erica

• Intersections of Justice in the Time of Coronavirus —Cara Page & Eesha Pandit

• Reflections from a Dean of Transformative Discipline: What abolitionist education means to me —Sagnicthe Salazar

• Dismantling ICE means Defunding the Police —Irene Romulo

• We Tryna Get Free On Our Own Terms: A Conversation Between Bettina Love and David Stovall

• Abolition: One Genealogy —Erica Meiners

• School Abolition Already in Progress: Understanding “Dysfunctional” Schools as Liberated by Student Power —Jay Gillen

Building our Knowledge

• What is the PIC? —Critical Resistance
• The Knotted Line Curriculum (reprint) —Evan Bissell
• How to Share Space: Creating Community in the Classroom —Project NIA & Annie Terrell

• Seven Easy Steps: Ideas & Questions for Everyday Abolitionist Organizing —Critical Resistance

Building Our Power

• Policing, Reform vs. Abolition Chart —Critical Resistance
• Black Organizing Project Sanctuary Pledge & Black Organizing Project —Jackie Byers

PART TWO: Every Day in Every Way

Building Our Analysis

• Imagining “Classroom Management” as an Abolitionist Project —Carla Shalaby
• Young People Building Movements: Negotiating Adultism in Schools and Beyond —RYSE
• A Classroom Reimagined: Experiments in Teaching through a Feminist Abolitionist Lens —Amreen Karmali
• Abolitionist Teaching —Terisa Siagatonu
• Reparations Can Be Won—and Must Be Taught: Lessons from the Chicago Public Schools’ Reparations Won Curriculum —Jen Johnson

Building our Knowledge

• Building Classroom Communities: A Pedagogical Reflection —Harper Keenan
• Why Spiritual Revival Matters: Spirit Murdering that Shapes Elementary Schooling —Farima Pour-Khorshid and Marylin Zuñiga
• Woke Wonderings —Akiea Gross
• Educators Against ICE Training —California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance
• Classroom as Quilombo: Literacy, Ancestral Memory, and Everyday Resistance —Osceola Ward
• Thick Glass Walls —Tania Peralta
• 10 Ways Sex Education Can and Should Be Abolitionist —Chicago Women’s Health Center

Building Our Power

• ICE Out of Schools: Teacher and Community Action —Holly Hardin
• Coins, Cops, & Communities: A Toolkit —Debbie Southorn
• Freedom Charter 2030 —Young Women’s Freedom Center
• Plight of the Girl —Mariame Kaba & Naimah Thomas
• Children of the MILPA: Culture and Community Unlocking Education —MILPA Collective
• Beginning with the Body: Strategies on Building and Defining Safety in Unsafe Schools —Stephanie Cariaga

PART THREE: Growing our work [unsure about this section title]

Building Our Analysis

• Abolition Education in High School and Alternative Spaces: A Dialogue —Kyle Beckham and Chrissy Hernandez
• Toward a Greenhouse Model: An Interview with Dr. Shawn Ginwright about Healing-Centered Engagement — Farima Pour Khorshid
• Build the Block —Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC)
• Letter to Brandon: Heal, Grow, and Change the World —Emily Borg, Rossa Socco, CaseyAnn Carbonell, & Lupe Renteria Salome
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Doesn’t Sing: Creating a Healing Space for Black Girls to Reclaim Their Bodies —Aja D. Reynolds

Building our Knowledge

• Bill of Rights —Oscar Calderon & Project What!
• Abolition, not reform: Kinder, gentler youth prisons are still prisons —Subini Ancy Annamma

Building Our Power

• Thinking Beyond “Counselors, Not Cops”: Imagining & Decarcerating Care in Schools —Emma Williams
• The 4I’s Are Not Enough: The Struggle to Ensure That Restorative Justice Is Transformative —Anita Wadhwa
• Cultivating a Culture for Transformative Youth Organizing —Emily Bautista
• Arts-Based Abolitionist Education: Free Money Curriculum —Sefanit Habtom