Interrupting Criminalization

@interruptcrim

resources, tools & practice for organizers working to end criminalization, policing & punishment. co-founded by Andrea J. Ritchie & Mariame Kaba.
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New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It. — A Mini-Toolkit for Interrupting the Abduction, Detention, and Deportation Machine As ICE, Customs & Border Patrol, and federal enforcement violence continues to intensify and expand across the United States, people everywhere are mobilizing to protect migrant friends, family, co-workers and neighbors. 💪 📣The administration cannot successfully execute their cruel anti-migrant agenda without our consent, labor, money, permits, transportation infrastructure, technology, and complicity! In cities across the country, people are coming together, getting creative, and doing what they can to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine. Together with our partners at the @instabaji , Community Justice Exchange, @detentionwatch , and more, IC gathered information on strategies and tactics communities are deploying to stop construction of new detention capacity, slow and interrupt the kidnapping of migrants, challenge collusion and complicity with deportations, and stop the flow of funds, resources, data and legitimacy to the machine. We’ve put this all together into a mini-toolkit, available online on our website. Block It! is an invitation to join efforts already in motion in your community and across the country to protect our families, neighbors, and community members, to expand and step up existing efforts — and, if there is a gap in your area, to start your own and to take action wherever and however you can! Check it out via our Linktree or at: ➡️interruptingcriminalization.org/block-it 🎨We also invited movement artist and migrant justice organizer @itsmonicatrinidad to create this beautiful artwork that you can use in your organizing efforts and to invite people to action! It is available in: 📱downloadable poster and social media formats 📜in our online shop, if you want a print 🖌️fillable formats you can use to promote your own call to action or event! We hope you will find info, inspiration, and materials you can use!
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It’s a WRAP! And a beautiful one, at that. Thank you to everyone who participated in the Practicing New Worlds Study Circle at the Boggs Center over the last four months. We capped off our time together by breaking (naan) bread over conversation with Andrea J. Ritchie, the brilliant and generous author of this deeply collaborative writing project and co-founder of @interruptcrim . Gratitude to Andrea for sharing her stories and insights with us, and for pushing us to make more room in our lives for dreaming, writing, and fighting for the futures we long for. Thanks also to Halima Cassels, PG Watkins, and Sage Crump for joining earlier conversations and sharing how you each got involved in contributing to and reviewing the book with Andrea. We learned so much from each of you and are grateful to be in community with you all! We encourage everyone to start their own Practicing New Worlds Study Circles. To that end, we created a Study Guide filled with illustrative images, questions and ideas we brought from our own lives and practice, and select gems from each of the book’s numerous contributors. To download the Study Guide in PDF format, go to: /study-circles As PG puts it, “Abolition starts with how you talk to yourself.” It continues to deepen with how we gather and learn through ongoing reflection on practice. Here’s to more study for struggle! #boggscenter #studyforstruggle #practicingnewworlds #emergentstrategies
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The Peculiar Patriot is a sharp, comedic one-person play by Liza Jessie Peterson, inspired by her decades of work with people in prison. Our cofounder Mariame Kaba is part of a talk after the June 4th show in NYC. You can get tickets at a discount by using the code PATRIOT25; see our linktree for the link to buy!
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This Saturday, our cofounder Mariame Kaba will be doing two workshops in Brooklyn at the Bedford library. See the events on our linktree in our bio to register! They are FREE, plus you can check out The Warehouse exhibit while you're there. 1pm: Things I Wish I’d Said To My Children: A Workshop for Formerly Incarcerated Parents 3pm: Talking with Children About Incarceration—for families with currently incarcerated loved ones & people who work with children of the incarcerated (as educators, caregivers, or service providers).
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No matter what the Supreme Court decides this week, we will always help each other access safe abortions, in all states. In the US, visit @plancpills to find an option that works for you. They are a trusted source with constantly updated information. #AbortionIsHealthCare #Abortion #PlanC
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We offer a Transformative Justice Help Desk consultation service for our partners working on projects and community-wide interventions to respond to, transform and interrupt harm and violence without the state. See the third link in our bio for more info! #TJ #TransformativeJustice
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Writers, editors, journalists, communications people and the like are all welcome to this online discussion happening June 2! See the linktree in our bio to register. • What is the effect of surveillance and criminalization on our work as media makers? • What is our responsibility as media makers to criminalized communities? • What tools and strategies can we use to make sound decisions about safety, support, and transparency with sources and communities in a context of increasing criminalization? • How can we make decisions collaboratively about platform, format, and risk in our work?
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This past we visited Oakland's @rjoyoakland to sit in circle, learn from the youth, jam and bond! We read Jane Ball & Mariame Kaba's Prisons Must Fall and then we wrote a song based on it! We held a readloud and then youths got to jamming! Here are the lyrics! "No More People Being Treated Like Dolls If People Rise, Then Prisons Must Fall Freedom Is Our Safe Place But Prisons Take It Away There’s No Room To Segregate For This Place, I Dare To Legislate There’s No Room To Separate How Does One Repent From Behind A Gate If People Rise, Then Prisons Must Fall If People Rise, Then Prisons Must Fall If People Rise, Then Prisons Must Fall If People Rise, Then Prisons Must Fall" @interruptcrim
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🖊️ Monday is the deadline to apply for the Stevie Wilson DIY Young Artists Residency! 🎨 Artists aged 16-24 directly impacted by criminalization, policing, &/or punishment are eligible for $2,500 to work on creative projects 🖼️ The projects can take place between July to December, 2026 🔗 See the linktree in our bio for more info 🗣️ Please help us spread the word!
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Today is the 11th anniversary of Chicago Torture Justice Memorials’ historic #ReparationsWON. This effort was co-organized by our cofounder Mariame Kaba, and serves as a model for what justice for survivors of state violence can look like beyond apologies and the illusions of police prosecutions: • 57 survivors of police torture received reparation payments. • Mandatory history curriculum in Chicago Public Schools for 8th and 10th grades on the Burge police torture cases and the campaign to win reparations. • Free tuition and/or job training at City Colleges of Chicago for survivors and family members. • Creation of the Chicago Torture Justice Center on the South Side, providing specialized trauma counseling and other services to survivors and their families. • A promise to build a permanent public memorial honoring survivors, acknowledging the torture, and commemorating the struggle that won reparations—after a sustained campaign, the city finally broke ground on the memorial this year! Let this be an inspiration for organizing for reparations for current and future state violence!
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⛓️‍💥 EPISODE 249! ⛓️‍💥 In today’s episode, we discuss a zine from @interruptcrim titled “Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism – Volume 1: A Conversation with the YoNoFui Collective of Argentina” by Melanie Brazzell and Andrea J. Ritchie (in collaboration with YoNoFui), which summarizes a conversation between Interrupting Criminalization and the Argentina-based abolitionist and antifascist collective YoNoFui at a Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism webinar and the lessons learned from and application of their transformative justice work against authoritarian regimes, and what we learn and take away from this incredible zine in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation. Want to join the convo? Check out the link to the zine in our bio. Listen to this episode now wherever you podcast!
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Our cofounder Mariame Kaba will be at the Black Zine Fair 2026 this Saturday! May 9, 11 AM to 6 PM Free & open to the public with RSVP—see the linktree in our bio 100+ exhibitors. 10 workshops. Hosted by @powerhouse_arts 1 reading room curated by @kameelahr Organized by @sojourners4justice Masks required and provided by @healthstellium
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