RESOURCES

We hope the resources provided for you below will inform and inspire more awareness, action, urgency, and solidarity in the global fight to free prisoners from behind bars. The following list of resources should not be seen as exhaustive, comprehensive or finalized. Instead, they can provide useful background context for navigating the art on this website and serve as entry points to start making connections between the two systems of incarceration and those held captive within them. Ultimately, we hope that through art and education, we take another step towards freeing them all.

  • Summary of the History of Injustice Against Palestine and Incarceration in Palestine – Art Against Imprisonment
    • Document prepared by the Art Against Imprisonment coalition to summarize the history of Israeli colonization in Palestine and incarceration of Palestinians.
  • Primer on Palestine – Lisa Hajjar and Joel Beinin (document)
    • A thorough primer that gives both a historic and current overview of Israeli colonization of Palestine.
  • Prison Abolition Syllabus 2.0
    • Comprehensive syllabus on the prison system in the United States – containing books, primary sources and multimedia resources – seeking to contextualize and highlight prison organizing and prison abolitionist efforts from the 13th Amendment’s rearticulation of slavery to current resistance to mass incarceration, solitary confinement, and prison labor exploitation.
  • For the Love of Palestine – 2016
    • Booklet featuring stories of Palestinian women prisoners and building U.S. solidarity with their struggle growing out of the Prison, Labor and Academic Delegation to Palestine in 2016.