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4 Ways Oaklanders Can Focus Their Energy, Organize, and Respond to the Election
4 Ways Oaklanders Can Focus Their Energy, Organize, and Respond to the Election

The Oaklandside

How Princess Leia Teaches Us Not to Lose Hope as We Head Into Another Trump Presidency
How Princess Leia Teaches Us Not to Lose Hope as We Head Into Another Trump Presidency

The Mary Sue

Transformative Justice Is Global
Transformative Justice Is Global

Inquest

Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South
Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South

Political Research Associates

The Right Wants Us to Submit to Nihilism. Here Is Where I’m Searching for Hope.
The Right Wants Us to Submit to Nihilism. Here Is Where I’m Searching for Hope.

Truthout

“Disrupt and Vilify”: The War on Immigrants Inside the US War on Drugs
“Disrupt and Vilify”: The War on Immigrants Inside the US War on Drugs

A joint report by Human Rights Watch and Drug Policy Alliance

Queer Activists Are Making BDS a Key Question of Pride This Year
Queer Activists Are Making BDS a Key Question of Pride This Year

Truthout

Divesting from Carceral Thinking
Divesting from Carceral Thinking

Boston Review

Everyone’s An “Activist.” We Need More Organizers.
Everyone’s An “Activist.” We Need More Organizers.

Gay Times

Police Are Sending Student Protesters to the ER. Campus Cops Don’t Keep Us Safe.
Police Are Sending Student Protesters to the ER. Campus Cops Don’t Keep Us Safe.

Truthout

Anti-Mask Laws Target Gaza Protests, But They Threaten All Progressive Movements
Anti-Mask Laws Target Gaza Protests, But They Threaten All Progressive Movements

Truthout

"We Need to Resist and Dismantle Through Decentralized Formations"
"We Need to Resist and Dismantle Through Decentralized Formations"

Organizing My Thoughts

The Revolution Will Be Caring
The Revolution Will Be Caring

Public Books

‘One Million Experiments’ Showcases Liberatory Future-Building on a Micro Scale
‘One Million Experiments’ Showcases Liberatory Future-Building on a Micro Scale

Prism

Hope Is a Practice and a Discipline: Building a Path to a Counterculture of Care
Hope Is a Practice and a Discipline: Building a Path to a Counterculture of Care

Nonprofit Quarterly

Author Q&A with Andrea J. Ritchie
Author Q&A with Andrea J. Ritchie

The Public Eye Magazine, Political Research Associates

Practicing Emergent Strategies to Fight the Right and Resist Fascism
Practicing Emergent Strategies to Fight the Right and Resist Fascism

The Public Eye Magazine, Political Research Associates

Illusions of Safety
Illusions of Safety

The Baffler Magazine

Love Letters for Liberation
Love Letters for Liberation

“A Choreography of Being in Good Relation: Rehearsals for Living Book Review Forum,” Society and Space

“Criminalization is the Antithesis of Care”: Contextualizing the Dobbs Decision with Black Queer Abolitionist Feminism
“Criminalization is the Antithesis of Care”: Contextualizing the Dobbs Decision with Black Queer Abolitionist Feminism

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

The Year in Books
The Year in Books

Yes! Magazine

Practicing New Worlds with adrienne maree brown and Andrea Ritchie
Practicing New Worlds with adrienne maree brown and Andrea Ritchie

Yes! Magazine

Why journalists must speak out about Gaza
Why journalists must speak out about Gaza

In These Times, Mainline, Mondoweiss, Prism, The Real News Network, Reckon, Scalawag, and Truthout

IC Enters Chrysalis: A Year of Integration, Reflection, and Preparation
IC Enters Chrysalis: A Year of Integration, Reflection, and Preparation

An important announcement from Interrupting Criminalization co-founders Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba.

Notes for Tomorrow: Beyond Do No Harm
Notes for Tomorrow: Beyond Do No Harm

Independent Curators International

The Incarceration Reporting Initiative
The Incarceration Reporting Initiative

Knock LA

“Prison Itself Is Censorship”: Mariame Kaba on the Freedom to Read
“Prison Itself Is Censorship”: Mariame Kaba on the Freedom to Read

In These Times

Fractal Abolition: To build the world we want, and tear down the old one, we can and must start small
Fractal Abolition: To build the world we want, and tear down the old one, we can and must start small

Inquest

Prison as censorship: Exhibition curated by Mariame Kaba serves as an abolitionist call to action
Prison as censorship: Exhibition curated by Mariame Kaba serves as an abolitionist call to action

Prism Reports

What Preceded This Bloodshed in Gaza Was Not “Peace” — It Was Apartheid
What Preceded This Bloodshed in Gaza Was Not “Peace” — It Was Apartheid

Truthout

Audio

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The Defund Movement in 2024: Frontline Reporters Separate Myth from Reality

The Laura Flanders Show

Objectivity in Journalism Is a Deadly Myth That Serves Israeli Military and Cops

Movement Memos, Truthout

Emergent Strategies & Abolition

Interdependent Study

Practicing New Worlds w/ Andrea Ritchie

Death Panel

Health Justice - More than Do No Harm

Interdependent Study

Footnote Forum’s Moderated Conversation with Mariame Kaba and Dean Spade on the Importance of Archives to Our Social Movements

Footnote Forum

Taking Back the Library w/ Mariame Kaba & Melissa Gira Grant

Death Panel

Practicing New Worlds in a Time of Collapse

Movement Memos, Truthout

Police Reform After 2020: Andrea J. Ritchie's Deep Dive into Emergent Strategies

The Laura Flanders Show

Movement Building Involves Discomfort

This is Hell!, WNUR-FM

Episode 1: Peter then Thomas

Last Call, HBO

Episode 9: An End In Sight

Blind Plea, Lemonada Media

Don’t Despair, Practice Hope

Interdependent Study

Episode 6: Devan’s Defense

Blind Plea, Lemonada Media

“We Don’t Get There Without The Shared Struggle”

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

"How Are We Going To Build Power To Get What We Want?"

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

Cop City Is Only the Beginning, Unless We Fight

Movement Memos, Truthout

No More Police with Andrea Ritchie

Death Panel

Let This Radicalize You w/ Mariame Kaba & Kelly Hayes

Death Panel

Palestinian Organizers: We Honor Our Grief by Practicing Hope

Movement Memos, Truthout

To Transform Conflict in Movements, We Must Learn How to Stay in It Together

Movement Memos, Truthout

Let This Conversation With Mariame Kaba Radicalize You

Movement Memos, Truthout

Let's Talk: Copaganda w/ Lewis Wallace

Abolition Is for Everybody

Episode 108: A Pro-democracy Case Against Objectivity

News Over Noise

No More Police: A Case for Abolition

Inside Out Radio Show with Aishah Shahidah Simmons, WPFW

The Case for Abolition w/ Andrea J Ritchie

Law and Disorder with Cat Brooks, 94.1 KPFA

Pulling Back the Curtain on Police Propaganda with Andrea Ritchie.

Black History Year, PushBlack

Texas Jury Convicted Ex-Police Officer Who Killed Atatiana Jefferson

The Takeaway

Non Serviam Podcast #43 - No More Cops with Mariame Kaba

Non Serviam Media

We Need Harm Reduction With a Liberatory Vision

Movement Memos, Truthout