As Asians and Asian Americans, we commit to ending the cycle of violence and harm towards Asians in all forms.

We understand that white supremacy, cisheteropatriarchy and capitalism are systems that always have and continue to perpetuate violence against our communities. Which means the harm our communities face has everything to do with race, with gender, and with class. We are clear that power and privilege varies across Asian American communities, based on religion, immigration status, sexuality and ability/disability.

The recent mass shootings targeting Asian women who work in massage parlors and Sikh FedEx workers, in the face of increased daily attacks against Asian Americans, sparked a call to #StopAsianHate. These attacks targeted some of the most vulnerable among us. Right now, our broader Asian American movement must make a decision. Will we keep a privileged few among us safe through hate crime legislation and increased policing -- which we know is a deadly threat to Black lives every day -- or will we fight for true safety and freedom for all of us. We believe abolition is the path toward our collective liberation.

We fight for all in our communities including those who are massage parlor or sex workers, undocumented or refugees, evicted or houseless, detained, incarcerated or deported. As Fannie Lou Hamer said, “Nobody’s free until everybody's free.”

We believe that #BuildingSolidarity and centering those directly and disproportionately impacted is critical to justice and liberation.

We are rooted in revolutionary love. We will not allow systems of oppression to divide and conquer us nor the communities that we are a part of and serve. We are not your fetish, racial wedge or model minority.

We follow the analysis and center the leadership of survivor-led and local grassroots organizations who do the organizing, narrative and policy work that make alternate futures possible. Together, we will dream abolition into fruition that encourages us to live values that honor our humanity and self-determination.

We commit as individuals and organizations to transform and end the culture of policing, including the ways in which we embody police-thinking, punitive patterns and carceral ways of being with each other. We will find ways to address harm and conflict that do not include or expand punishment, police and prisons including hate crimes legislation. We will practice conflict transformation, with principled struggle and care.

We seek investment in our communities for healthcare, housing, employment and education and to build community accountability structures that go beyond the broken immigration system, criminal injustice system or policing -- which is rooted in a system of chattel slavery in the United States. Furthermore, we know that US colonialism and imperialism bear responsibility for a country founded on white supremacy, anti-blackness and Indigenous genocide and the ongoing violence perpetrated here and across the globe. Many Asian communities resettled here because the US military was in our homelands.

We commit to sharing resources and power with transparency, equity, and mutuality.

We lean into our own discomfort and turn toward each other as we build movements that can make and hold space with an abolitionist accountability pathway.

We will practice principled ways of community care, transformative justice, and healing from the trauma we have and are experiencing.

We invite you to join us by signing this Collective Asian/Asian American Solidarity and Abolition Pledge. We will share resources to expand our consciousness, build solidarity, practice transformative justice and fight for abolition together.

Link to Resource Hub (We welcome additions.)

Anchor Abolition Organizations:

18 Million Rising

Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta

Asian and Pacific Islander Women Lead

Creative Interventions

People’s Collective for Justice and Liberation

Red Canary Song

Southeast Freedom Network

Survived & Punished