Interrupting Criminalization

The Science of Unlearning and Why Organizers Need It “Nobody had a story about unlearning that didn’t include a connection with other people,” says Lewis Raven Wallace.

Our Abolition Journalism Fellow Lewis Raven Wallace is on @truthout.org's Movement Memos podcast, check it out at the link!

Programs Container | Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center What are you practicing? This retreat is for anyone who knows in their bones that another world is possible beyond militarized borders, policing, and prisons, even if we can’t quite perceive the detai...

Do you just KNOW that another world is possible beyond militarized borders, policing, and prisons? Do you want to work toward that world?

Check out this link about the Practicing New Worlds retreat with Andrea Ritchie & Nichola Torbett in Bangor, PA May 8 - 10!

screenshot from the Washington Post: Opinion The Supreme Court is right. Parents get to decide how to raise their kids. The government of California doesn’t supersede parental rights. Even at school. March 5, 2026 at 7:15 a.m. EST 4 min [photo: The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 29. (Kent Nishimura/Reuters)] By Erin Morrow Hawley Erin Morrow Hawley is chair of Lex Politica’s Supreme Court and appellate practice and counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom.

*Conservative parents. Only conservative parents get to decide how to raise their kids, per this court

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ICE Just Abducted an Immigration Reporter in Nashville Rodríguez, a journalist for Nashville Noticias and Univision 42, sought political asylum in the U.S. in 2021 after receiving threats for her reporting in her native Colombia.

www.jezebel.com/ice-just-abd...

We know that the far-right groups who are pushing anti-trans policies want to go beyond banning youth gender-affirming care; they want to ban care for trans adults, and they have already begun restricting care access. Read more: buff.ly/zqNDKqa

Robin D. G. Kelley: It’s Not Enough to Abolish ICE — We Have to Abolish the Police “What’s happening now has happened before,” Kelley said, underscoring the anti-Blackness foundational to US fascism.

Things that people are angry at ICE for—kidnapping people, racial profiling, brutalizing people—police departments do across the US every day. ICE must be abolished because police and policing must be abolished, and those funds should be used to help and support people.

If you are a health care worker looking for ways to disrupt the destructive patterns of criminalization in our world, please check out our Beyond Do No Harm network:

“Greater contact with law enforcement does not protect children — it increases the risk of sexual violence, especially for Black and Brown kids.”

Missouri Advances Three Anti-Trans Bathroom Ban Bills In One Night “This is a make-or-break moment with what just happened in Kansas.”

1. Missouri appears to be forging ahead with 3 bathroom bans in public buildings across the state.

They heard 3 bills in a single night on the topic.

Lawmakers are worried that we could see what happened to Kansas happen there too.

The latest from our writer S. Baum.

N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

The New York attorney general's office has ordered NYU Langone to resume gender affirming care for trans youth due to violating New York Human Rights law.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

Bypass here.

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"In America, Islamophobia is deeply tied to issues of racialization and white supremacy ... One way this is illustrated is the fact that Islamophobic incidents impact people who are not practicing Muslims, simply because they are perceived as such."

Prosecutors Keep Charging Women Who Have Abortions For Crimes They Did Not Commit Kentucky’s fetal homicide law does not apply to people who end their own pregnancies. This woman got charged anyway.

Lot going on but: A Kentucky prosecutor admitted to not reading the law closely before charging a woman with fetal homicide after an abortion

"When we looked at it for the grand jury, we took a more intense look at it, and we realized we were unable to prove it." Only dropped charge post-indictment

Having a Baby? 5 Tips to Avoid Problems From Flawed Drug Testing at the Hospital Hospitals routinely use unreliable drug tests at childbirth, and many parents are reported to child welfare agencies and the police. Here’s what you can do.

Hospitals routinely use unreliable drug tests at childbirth, and many parents are reported to child welfare agencies and the police. Here’s what you can do.

The Saturday session of First Aid for the People had too many people sign up and not enough space to accommodate everyone. I'm going to see if the facilitators can offer another session in the near future. @interruptcrim.bsky.social will sponsor and cover the costs.

The shape of Iran with the words NO WAR WITH IRAN over it

The attacks on Iran, including one which killed dozens at a school for girls, are beyond horrific. End the US/Israel war machine now!

A photo of Ida B. Wells labeled with her name. Reads: Documented lynching as a tool of racial terror in the wake of the legal abolition of slavery & campaigned internationally to end it, carrying the abolitionist tradition into struggles against Jim Crow & racist violence.

A photo of Angela Davis labeled with her name. Reads: A communist, feminist, scholar, & author, her own imprisonment helped lead her to a radical critique of prisons. Later, she was instrumental in developing the concept the concept of the prison-industrial complex & called for its abolition—not reform.

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Text reads Black History Month: Black Women Abolitionists, with pictures of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Sarah Parker Remond, Ida B. Wells, & Angela Davis

A photo of Sojourner Truth labeled with her name. Reads: After freeing herself in 1826, she became a traveling speaker linking abolition & women’s rights. She confronted white audiences, including Abraham Lincoln, about Black liberation.

A photo of Harriet Tubman labeled with her name. Reads: Escaped slavery in 1849, then returned repeatedly to lead dozens of people to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Led a raid on the Combahee River, freeing hundreds of enslaved Africans. Later worked as a scout, spy, & nurse for the Union Army.

A photo of Sarah Parker Remond labeled with her name. Reads: A free Black lecturer & American Anti-Slavery Society agent, she spoke across the North & in Britain to build transatlantic support for US abolition. Later became a physician in Italy.

Today is the last day of #BlackHistoryMonth, and we want to honor some inspirational Black women abolitionists from the last 200+ years. Swipe through to read! #AbolitionNow 1/2

Virtual meetup Journalists and Media Makers Concerned About Criminalization March 5 3pm - 4:30pm ET | 12pm - 1:30pm PT

Journalists and Media Makers Concerned about Criminalization Meetup!

March 5, 2026, 3pm-4:30pm EST

We welcome journalists, activist media makers, & communications workers who want to discuss criminalization & abolition!

Short application here: bit.ly/JournalistsMeetupReg

#11: Porch Side Abolition New Zine: "50 Ways To Meet Your Neighbor"

A new edition of the 1 Million Experiments zine is here! It’s terrific as usual and includes a new zine which is a treasure. To jump-start neighborly relations, try one of the 50 (mostly untried) ways to meet your neighbors. Get into some Porchside Abolition. open.substack.com/pub/millione...

Virtual meetup Journalists and Media Makers Concerned About Criminalization March 5 3pm - 4:30pm ET | 12pm - 1:30pm PT

Journalists and Media Makers Concerned about Criminalization Meetup!

March 5, 2026, 3pm-4:30pm EST

We welcome journalists, activist media makers, & communications workers who want to discuss criminalization & abolition!

Short application here: bit.ly/JournalistsMeetupReg

Nick Fuentes Wants Women in “Gulags.” Here’s Why That Matters. "Gender has always been an important throughline of fascist politics," says Shane Burley.

Infamous far-right pundit wants to criminalize and imprison an entire gender.

Sex Trafficking Prosecutions Won’t Stop the Next Epstein. Here’s What Will. We can fight child sexual abuse using a block-and-build strategy rooted in economic, racial, and gender justice.

A world without child sexual abuse is winnable—but few have organized around this at scale. This vacuum has allowed right-wing and carceral liberal forces to use the Epstein case to push intensified criminalization, policing, & prisons, including efforts to further criminalize the sex industry."

Abolition Is Still the Only Way Out of This Forget the useless so-called “reforms” to ICE and policing currently on offer. We need much more fundamental change.

Democrats are suggesting reforms for ICE, but the reality is: abolition is the way forward, not reform.

Read the latest from our co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie in @thenation.com!

Interrupting Criminalization IC offers political education materials, organizing tools, support skill-building and practice spaces for organizers and movements challenging criminalization and the violence of policing and punishme...

ICYMI: our latest Newsletter: 💻 Transformative Justice Webinar, Other Upcoming Events

No prior experience required! Together, we'll explore TJ and Camila's "Beyond Accountability" workbook, and discuss how you might use this tool in your own work and communities.

This visual session will not be recorded. Registered attendees will receive the Zoom link the day of the event.

Accountability Beyond Punishment Workbook — Interrupting Criminalization Join Interrupting Criminalization for a virtual session on transformative justice with organizer and transformative justice facilitator Camila Pelsinger Villalba. This session is for people who are pr...

🗓️Tomorrow, Feb. 12 at 6:30-8 PM ET: If you're practicing or curious about transformative justice, survivor support and community-based responses to harm, join us for this webinar with organizer and TJ facilitator Camila Pelsinger Villalba.

ASL and live captioning provided. Learn more and register:

People are resisting and organizing against the expansion of immigrant detention in their communities. Check out this Feb. 19 @detentionwatchnetwork.org webinar to learn more about such efforts through DWN's Communities Not Cages campaign, and to hear insights from organizers in CA, FL, and KS:

Block It! — Interrupting Criminalization

If you're looking for ways to jump in and help disrupt and chip away at the ICE kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine where you are, our BLOCK IT! toolkit is updated regularly with campaigns and strategies you can join or build near you, as well as inspiration and ideas. Check it out here:

These are the high schoolers taking a stand against ICE: ‘You can’t let despair take over’ Thousands of students across the US have been walking out of their schools to protest ICE in their communities

for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI.

one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.

The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...

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