Mapping Community Ecosystems of Collective Care
A toolkit offering resources, responses, and questions to consider in building robust community ecosystems of collective care at the neighborhood and city-wide levels. Based on Interrupting Criminalization’s work and practice spaces, and aimed at helping communities seeking to strengthen networks of community care and advance transformative justice.
Practicing New Worlds: Reading & Discussion Guide
This is a reading and discussion guide for Practicing New Worlds by Andrea J. Ritchie, an exploration of how emergent strategies can help us meet this moment, survive what is to come, and shape safer and more just futures.
Don’t Be A Copagandist: Israeli Militarism Edition
A resource for media on covering Palestine and Israel. This guide attempts to unpack a few key places where IDF propaganda shows up in news reporting, offers tips for what (and what NOT) to do in coverage, and shares additional recommended resources.
An Annotated Version of the Indictment Filed Against #StopCopCity Organizers
An annotated version of the indictment filed against #StopCopCity organizers, featuring critical information and context, questions for discussion, and more.
Don’t Be A Copagandist: Police Sexual Violence Edition
A resource for journalists covering the issue of sexual violence by law enforcement agents, including police, school “resource” officers, school “safety” officers, private security stationed in schools, probation, parole, and immigration authorities, and Customs and Border Patrol.
Don’t Be A Copagandist: #StopCopCity Indictments Edition
A resource for media and communicators covering the recent indictments of #StopCopCity organizers in Atlanta on how to avoid perpetuating copaganda.
Don’t Be A Copagandist: Drug War Edition
A resource for media on how to avoid reproducing criminalizing narratives and focus on health, harm reduction, human dignity, and justice in drug coverage.
Let This Radicalize You: Reading & Discussion Guide
This is a reading and discussion guide for Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba, a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.
Let This Radicalize You Workbook
This workbook is intended as an extension of Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba’s book Let This Radicalize You. It was created to feature resources that that couldn't fit in the book, including other helpful books, essays, wisdom from veteran organizers, and more!
When We Fall Apart
This workbook was created to help individuals and groups collectively navigate a breakup from another individual or group. It offers up a collection of thoughts, insights, and lessons gathered from people in the social justice movement who have experienced an intragroup breakup and survived to tell the tale, learn lessons from it, and keep moving forward.
Beyond Do No Harm
Thirteen principles for supporting people’s agency, self-determination, dignity of risk, and general wellbeing.
Don’t Be A Copagandist
A Resource for Media on Covering “Crime” and Violence, including things to avoid, approaches for advancing abolitionist narratives, and additional reading and guides.
No More Police: A Case for Abolition
In this powerful call to action, New York Times bestselling author Mariame Kaba and attorney and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie detail why policing doesn’t stop violence, instead perpetuating widespread harm; outline the many failures of contemporary police reforms; and explore demands to defund police, divest from policing, and invest in community resources to create greater safety through a Black feminist lens.
So is this Actually an Abolitionist Proposal or Strategy?
A collection of resources to aid in evaluation and reflection compiled by Interrupting Criminalization, Project Nia & Critical Resistance.
In It Together
This toolkit provides a step-by-step diagnostic tool to assess conflict in movement-building organizations and groups and provides strategies, tools, and resources to transform that conflict.
TJ Skill-Up Institute
This worksheet will take you through naming your conflict transformation skills, areas where you can keep building and deepening those skills, relationships that can support you in that work, and structures that can be resources where you are.
Navigating Public Safety Task Forces
This guide from the ground gathers lessons and victories from organizers who called for and engaged with public safety task forces over the past year — and the past decade. It is intended to support communities navigating common questions, taking into account the particular conditions of their own communities.
Defund the Police - Invest in Community Care
The primary purpose of this guide is to serve as a pragmatic tool for individuals and communities organizing and advocating for non-police mental health crisis responses, and to offer key considerations for what can be a complex, costly, and long-term intervention strategy.
Breaking the Silence
This is a curriculum for sexual assault service providers intended to accompany Interrupting Criminalization’s report Shrouded in Silence: Police Sexual Violence - What We Know and What We Can Do About It. Facilitators and participants are strongly encouraged to review the report before using any of the exercises in this curriculum.
The Demand Is Still #DefundPolice
This update to our June 2020 #DefundPolice toolkit reflects victories won across the country, key strategies deployed, some lessons learned - including tricks, tensions, and roadblocks along the way - and key questions communities are contending with in campaigns to defund police as we look forward to 2021.