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Political Education Resources

Key:

👥- Organization/campaign/training program
🛠- Toolkit
📚- Book
📝- Article
📺- Video
🔊- Audio

Abolition

📝 Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) Abolition Must be Central to Anti-Fascism. Critical Resistance (2024).
📝 Abolitionist Futures Reading Lists
📝 The Struggle Continues: Interrupting Criminalization Report
📝 Abolition and the State – Interrupting Criminalization.
📚 We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice – Mariame Kaba (2021). Haymarket Books.(also available in Spanish: Lo que haremos hasta que nos liberemos: Organización de la abolición y transformación de la justicia)
📚 Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement – Angela Davis (2016). Haymarket Books.
📚 Abolition Geography – Ruth Wilson Gilmore (2023). AK Press.
📚 The End of Policing – Alex Vitale (2018). Verso Books.
📚 Are Prisons Obsolete? – Angela Davis (2003). AK Press.
📚Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex – CR-10 Publications Collective (2008). AK Press.
📚 Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt – Orisanmi Burton (2023). AK Press.
📚 Becoming Abolitionists – Derecka Purnell (2022). Astra House.
📚 Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care – Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba (2023), Haymarket Books.
📚 Let This Radicalize You Workbook – Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba (2023). Haymarket.
📚 A People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice – Katie Tastrom (2024). PM Press.
📚 America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s – Elizabeth Hinton (2022). Liveright. ISBN 9781324092001.
📝 The 1968 Kerner Commision Got it Right, But Nobody Listened. – Alice George (2018). Smithsonian.

Anti-Racism & Whiteness

👥 Anne Braden Anti-Racist Organizer Training Program – Catalyst Project.
👥 Gear Up Training Series – Showing for Racial Justice.
🛠 Toolkit for white Jews building antiracist practice – Jewish Bridge Project’s Jewish Justice Circle: Awakening to whiteness.
📝 Our White Supremacy Problem – Devin Naar (2019). Jewish Currents.
📝 I Told Jews to Think About What Being ‘White’ Means. Then the Racism Exploded. – Nylah Burton (2018). Forward.
📝 How Did the Jews Become White Folks? – Karen Brodkin Sacks (1994).
📝 Racial Justice Framework – Jewish Social Justice Roundtable.
📝 Jews in the US: The Rising Costs of Whiteness – Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (1996). In Names We Call Home: Autobiographies on Racial Identity.
📝 Are we post Sephardim? – Devin Naar and Arielle Angel (2020). Jewish Currents.
📺 Exterminate All the Brutes – HBO Series.
🔊 Seeing White – Scene on Radio Podcast.

Antisemitism

📚 Safety Through Solidarity – Shane Burley and Ben Lorber (2024). Penguin House.
📚 Jews Against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight for Civil Liberties – Stuart Svonkin (1997). Columbia University Press.
👥 Jewish Bridge Project: A World Without Antisemitism.
👥 Diaspora Alliance
🛠 Antisemitism Curriculum – Parceo.
🛠 Dismantling Antisemitism Message Guide – Collaborative for Jewish Organizing.
📝 Understanding Antisemitism: An Offering to Our Movement – Jews For Racial and Economic Justice (2017).
📝 Skin in the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism – Eric Ward (2017). Political Research Associates.
📝 The ADL’s Antisemitism Findings, Explained – Mari Cohen (2023). Jewish Currents.
📝 Antisemitism Meets Transphobia – Ben Lorber and Helen Greenesmith (2021). The Progressive Magazine.
📝 Pro-Israel Advocates Are Weaponizing “Safety” on College Campuses – Natasha Lennard (2024). The Intercept.
📝 Latin@s, Israel and Palestine: Understanding Anti-Semitism – Aurora Levins Morales.
📝 What is Antisemitism? – Diaspora Alliance.
📝 Christian Dominance and Antisemitism – Beyond Christian Dominance Network.
📝 The Anti-Democratic Origins of the ADL and AJC – Emmaia Gelman (2021). Jewish Currents.
📝 Who’s Behind Push for States to Codify Weaponized Definition of Antisemitsm? – Arvind Dilawar (2024). Truthout.
📝 Black Antisemitism is Not Inherently “Left-Wing” – Rebbecca Pierce (2019). Jewish Currents.
📝 The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere: Making Resistance to Antisemitism Part of All Our Movements – April Rosenblum (2007).
📝 The far-right’s pretend fight against antisemitism is a perfect political strategy – Rachel Shabi (2025). The Guardian.
📝 The new definition of antisemitism is transforming America – and serving a Christian nationalist plan – Itamar Mann and Lihi Yona (2025). The Guardian.
📝 Defending Jews from the Definition of Antisemitism – Itamar Mann and Lihi Yona (2024). UCLA Law Review.
📝 IHRA Explainer and Messaging – Diaspora Alliance (2023).
📝 Weaponizing Jewish fear, from Tel Aviv to Amsterdam – Em Hilton (2024). +972 Magazine.
📝 The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite. – Dove Kent (2024). Forward.
📝 Who Benefits When Jews are Afraid? – Ben Lorber (2023). Jewish Currents.
🔊 The Other ADLs – Jewish Currents (2024). On the Nose Podcast.

Authoritarianism & Fascism

📝 Authoritarianism – European Center for Populism Studies.
📝 Authoritarianism – Political Research Studies.
📝 Authoritarian Blueprints: Revealing and Resisting Project 2025 – Political Research Studies.
📝 Lessons from Solidarity Networks in Chile for Today’s Anti-Authoritarian Organizers – Scott Nakagawa (2024). The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook.
📝 Global Far Right Explainer – Diaspora Alliance (2024).
📝 10 ways to fight Nazis in 5778 – Mimi Arbeit (2017). Jewschool.
📚 Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It – Shane Burley (2017). AK Press.
🔊 Anti Authoritarian Podcast

Christian & White Nationalist Movements

📝 White Nationalism – Political Research Associates.
📝 Explainer: White Nationalism – (2019) Facing History and Ourselves.
📝 Dismantling White Supremacy – Southern Poverty Law Center.
📝 After the Insurrection: Building the Movement to Defeat White Nationalism – Lindsay Zafir interview with Scot Nakagawa (2021). The Forge.
📝 Teaching about white nationalism: critical pedagogy about patriotism, law and the state. Beth Ribet & Leslie A. Bunnage (2023). Whiteness and Education.
📝Confronting White Supremacy: Lessons From a Counter-Rally at the Birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan. Sarah Jaffe (2017). Truthout.
📺 What is Christian nationalism and why it raises concerns about threats to democracy – PBS Newshour (2024).
📚 Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States – Andrew L. Whitehead, Samuel L. Perry (2020). Oxford University Press.
👥 Christians Against Christian Nationalism
👥 Confronting White Supremacy New England
👥 Left Coast Right Watch
👥 Western States Center
🔊The Insurgence: Sheriffs – Political Research Associates Podcast.
🔊In the fight against white nationalism, white people are key – Adrian Florido (2022). All Things Considered, NPR.

Black, Indigenous, Jews of Color, Sephardi, and Mizrahi (BIJCOSM) Voices and Spaces

👥 Dimensions’ Jewish Women of Color Resilience Circle
👥 Jewtina’s PUENTES Fellowship
👥 Black Jewish Liberation Collective
👥 JFREJ’s Sephardi/Mizrahi Caucus
👥 Jews of Color Sanctuary
👥 Joyous Justice
📝 Beyond the Count: Perspectives and Lived Experiences of Jews of Color – Jews of Color Initiative (2021).
📝 Jewish Women of Color Open Letter – Jewish Women of Color Marching.
📝 Zionism has no space for an Arab Jew like me – Hadar Cohen (2021). +972 Magazine.
📝 “Liberation is a journey, not a destination” – Black Jewish Liberation Collective. 📝 Freedom, Black Joy, and Movement-Building – Jews of Color Initiative Newsletter, January 2022.
📝 I Helped Coin the Term ‘Jews of Color.’ It’s Time for a History Lesson – Shahanah McKinney Baldon (2020). Hey Alma.
📝 Mizrahi struggle 101: A beginner’s guide for Ashkenazim – Orly Noy (2015). +972 Magazine.
🔊Whoopi Goldberg, the Oppression Scale, and the Emotional Thermometer – Jews Talk Racial Justice Podcast.

Christian Zionism

📝 Progressives Can’t Ignore Role of Christian Zionism in Colonization of Palestine – Brenneman, Jonathan & Aiden Orly (2021). TruthOut.
📝 101: Christian Zionism – Political Research Associates.
📝 Christian Zionism Explainer – Diaspora Alliance (2024).
🔊 How Christian Evangelicals Created Jewish Zionism – Committing High Reason Podcast (2023).
🔊Is This the Rapture? With Roan Boucher – How to Survive the End of the World Podcast (2024).
👥 Christians for a Free Palestine

Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Racism

👥 Muslim Abolitionist Futures
👥 Muslims for Just Futures Community Defense Resource Hub
👥 Muslim Justice League
👥 Queer Crescent
📝 Stop CVE Coalition Political Education Resources
📝 War on Terror Syllabus – Muslim Abolitionist Futures.
📝 Fears of Government Surveillance Complicate Muslim Groups’ Access to Federal Security Funding – Mari Cohen (2021). Jewish Currents.

Militarism

📝 Deadly Exchange: The Dangerous Consequences of American Law Enforcement Trainings in Israel – Researching the American-Israeli Alliance & Jewish Voice for Peace (2018).
📝 Policing and Militarism Go Hand in Hand. We Must Abolish Both – Destiny Harris (2021). Truthout.
📝 The forgotten history of American Jewish dissent against Zionism – Shaul Magid (2024). +972 Magazine.
📝 A common vision: the abolition of militarism – Mairead Maguire (2014). Open Democracy.

Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP)

📝 How an Anti-Terror Program Became a Jewish Earmark – Eileen Reynolds, Maia Efrem, Nathan Guttman (2011). Forward.
📝 Fears of Government Surveillance Complicate Muslim Groups’ Access to Federal Security Funding – Mari Cohen (2021). Jewish Currents.
📝 Jewish Communities Oppose Increased Funding for Nonprofit Security Grants Program – Community Safety Campaign (2024).
📝 Congress: Reject Increases in the Nonprofit Security Grants Program. – Community Safety Campaign and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (2024).

Private & Armed Security

📝 The Thin Purple Line: The dubious rise of the private-security industry – Jasper Craven (2024). Harper’s Magazine.
📝 Private Security and Public Space – Ben Grunwald, John Rappaport, Michael Berg (2024). Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
📝Meet a rabbi spending $75,000 a year in security costs to defend his synagogue – Jason Lalljee (2022). Business Insider.
📝 Poll: most Americans say gun ownership increases safety. Research: nope. – German Lopez (2018). Vox.

Sexual & Gender-Based Violence

🛠 Creating a transformative justice informed sexual harassment protocol – Ejeris Dixon and Vision Change Win.
🛠 Creative Interventions Toolkit
📝 Not Just a Joke: Understanding & Preventing Gender- & Sexuality-Based Bigotry – Southern Poverty Law Center & the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (2024).
📝 Misogynist incels and male supremacism: Overview and recommendations for addressing the threat of male supremacist violence – Megan Kelly, Alex DiBranco, Dr. Julia R. DeCook (2021). New America.
📝 Misogyny – Political Research Associates.
📝 Building the World We Want to See: A Herstory of Sista II Sista and the Struggle against State and Interpersonal Violence – Nicole A. Burrowes (2018). Souls.

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