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The following are readings, films, pieces of art, and organizations that inspire us. Learn more about the importance of abolitionism and food justice below.
It’s time to compost the prison plantation | The Nation Magazine
Inside the East Oakland plant nursery that’s breaking the incarceration cycle | Bay Nature Magazine on Planting Justice
A Prisoner in the Garden | Collected thoughts by Nelson Mandela
The California Coalition for Women Prisoners
Death at US women’s prison amid heatwave sparks cries for help | The Guardian
Protests highlight CA prison conditions in sweltering heat | 94.1 KPFA's Law & Disorder radio interview with Sol Mercado and Leesa Nomura
Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California's Wildfires | Book by Jaime Lowe
Grape Pickers Crash Lavish Sonoma Winery Banquet Demanding Better Wildfire Protections | Video feature by Emily Cohen Ibañez and accompanying
Building the American Dream | Documentary by Chelsea Hernandez
Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers | Research report by ACLU
In the Shadow of Slavery | Book by Judith Carney & Richard Nicholas Rosomoff
The unlikely gardeners of Alcatraz island | SFGATE Magazine
The Unending Hunger | Book by Megan A. Carney
Homegrown, starring Jamila Norman | HBO Original
Casa Pueblo | Puerto Rican community self-management project
We Are Each Other's Harvest | Book by Natalie Baszile
Queen Sugar | Book by Natalie Baszile
A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby | Sugar-coated installation by Kara Walker
Worker in the Cane | Book by Sidney W. Mintz