Teaching Tools
Teaching Tools
“Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex” – edited by Eric A. Stanley & Nat Smith
Explores how gender, incarceration, and political imprisonment intersect. — PDF Online on transreads.org
“The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison & Fighting for Those Left Behind” – by Safiya Bukhari
Essential for understanding how the state targets Black radicals, especially Black women. — Website
“We Are Our Own Liberators” – by Jalil Muntaqim
A former Black Panther and political prisoner, Muntaqim offers a powerful reflection on resistance, repression, and liberation. — PDF Online
Freedom Archives: Political Prisoners Resources
Historical audio, documents, and radical education tools on prisoners from the Black Power, Puerto Rican Independence, AIM, and Chicano movements — Website
Learning about Assata
Includes — “Assata: An Autobiography” by Assata Shakur – Memoir of Black Panther exile Assata Shakur, who recounts her experiences of police violence, trial, prison escape, and life in Cuba, and Eyes of the Rainbow (1997), a documentary film by Gloria Rolando about Assata Shakur.
COINTELPRO 101" (Freedom Archives)
A short documentary on FBI repression of Black, Indigenous, and radical organizers. — Vimeo
Teaching about COINTELPRO with documentary — Freedom Archives Website
“Jericho Movement Political Prisoners Directory” (Web Resource)
Profiles of dozens of U.S. political prisoners (from Black Panthers to Puerto Rican independentistas) with case histories and status updates. Useful for study groups to assign each person to a member to research and present, building awareness that abolition includes remembering, supporting, and freeing those imprisoned for liberation struggles. Also highlights international solidarity campaigns (e.g., global demands to free them). — Website
Publications by Survived & Punished
Abstract: Survived & Punished (S&P) is a national coalition that includes survivors, organizers, victim advocates, legal advocates and attorneys, policy experts, scholars, and currently and formerly incarcerated people. S&P organizes to de-criminalize efforts to survive domestic and sexual violence, support and free criminalized survivors, and abolish gender violence, policing, prisons, and deportations — Survived & Punished website-Publications Page
“Imprisoned Intellectuals” edited by Joy James
Anthology of writings by political prisoners (Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, Silvia Baraldini, and others) and about the history of U.S. political imprisonment. Highlights how incarcerated activists analyze the prison system and connect domestic repression to U.S. imperialism abroad. Provides crucial context on COINTELPRO and why abolitionists call to free all political prisoners.