Our Work

Building Thriving, Liberatory, And Safe Communities

Interrupting Criminalization is a movement resource hub offering research, connection, learning, and practice for organizers, practitioners, and advocates on the cutting edge of efforts to build a world free of violence, surveillance, policing, and punishment.

How We Support Movement Building

Help Desks +
Learning Spaces

Participatory spaces created and designed to support groups and individuals across the country to challenge criminalization.

Convenings +
Special Projects

Containers for organizers to grapple with questions, strategize together, navigate conflict, and build skills to bring into being the world we want.

Resource + Media Production

A searchable and filterable catalog featuring published books, reports, toolkits, curricula, artwork, videos, podcasts, and more.

Special Projects

Building Liberatory Movements

We create resources and provide learning opportunities and containers for organizers to grapple with big picture questions, strategize together, navigate conflict, and build skills to bring into being the world we want.

We work with movement partners to create high quality media, interactive educational tools, and training materials for organizers, educators, professionals, and community members.

Through the power of long-standing relationships with community groups across the United States and beyond, we are uniquely positioned to deliver tools that meet emerging needs for local organizers on the ground, connect lessons learned across movement groups, and convene our partners to share and inform national strategy and movement building.

Explore special projects wrestling with big picture questions and guiding future movement builders.

  • One Million Experiments

    A website and podcast exploring community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe.

  • No More Police

    Book detailing the failures of contemporary police reforms, and demands to defund police, divest from policing, and invest in community.

  • IC Curriculum

    Independent study assembled from our resource archive, aimed at helping you strategize, use, and apply these in your organizing and campaigns.

  • Beyond Courts

    A website exploring why the abolition of the prison-industrial complex necessarily requires abolition of the criminal court system.

  • Transformative Justice Skill Up

    Creating an infrastructure for TJ practices through organizing, training, and building community-based skill-up courses.

  • Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox

    A video collection of our long-running virtual workshop series that shares everyday resources for a punishment-free world.

  • Abolition Imagination Cards

    Printable and sharable art inviting us to imagine and dream the future that we want with abolitionist quotes through history.

Consultation + Learning Spaces

Bringing People Together

We create and offer supportive and educational spaces for organizers while coordinating expanded resource sharing and relationship building. These include collaborative learning spaces, individual consultation, and more.

Tools + Resources

Resources for Emerging Movements

We publish resources, workbooks, toolkits, and more to support organizing on the ground that focuses on multiple points of criminalization, whether that's defunding the police, addressing harm, shifting narratives, or more.