Interrupting Criminalization
@interruptcrim.bsky.social
Offering research, connection, learning, and practice for organizers and movements working to end criminalization, policing, and punishment. Founded and led by Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba.
Learn more at http://interruptingcriminalization.com/
Learn more at http://interruptingcriminalization.com/
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New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
🗓️January 29 + February 5, 2026 at 6-7:30 PM ET: Join us for a 2-part "Radical Unlearning" study group with IC Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social to discuss, explore, and build skills and community focused on cultivating unlearning in our own lives! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/r...
December 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🗓️January 29 + February 5, 2026 at 6-7:30 PM ET: Join us for a 2-part "Radical Unlearning" study group with IC Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social to discuss, explore, and build skills and community focused on cultivating unlearning in our own lives! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/r...
"The antidote to billionaire-dictated media is alive already in the form of grassroots, independent publications that build their work in line with the values of justice, equity, and the pursuit of liberation. ... Grassroots-funded journalism isn’t just a theoretical aspiration; it’s a practice."
In 2026, let’s take back the media — and our minds and spirits — from the billionaires.
This op-ed that @neginowl.bsky.social and I wrote today is close to my heart!
truthout.org/articles/bil...
This op-ed that @neginowl.bsky.social and I wrote today is close to my heart!
truthout.org/articles/bil...
Billionaires Are Encroaching on the Free Press. Let’s Act to Defend It in 2026.
Independent grassroots journalism committed to the pursuit of liberation is an antidote to billionaire-dictated media.
truthout.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"The antidote to billionaire-dictated media is alive already in the form of grassroots, independent publications that build their work in line with the values of justice, equity, and the pursuit of liberation. ... Grassroots-funded journalism isn’t just a theoretical aspiration; it’s a practice."
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Start from the beginning and read the entire series here: objectivejournalism.org/the-case-for...
The Case for Movement Journalism
A new limited-run column from The Objective from Lewis Raven Wallace, author of View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity, about why movement journalism matters.
objectivejournalism.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Start from the beginning and read the entire series here: objectivejournalism.org/the-case-for...
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ICYMI: How can journalism create hope and shift narratives? The last of @lewispants.bsky.social's column on movement journalism offers some clarity: objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/move...
Movement journalism can transform narratives
When we accept that we are powerless, we foreclose our own radical potential. Stories can change that.
objectivejournalism.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
ICYMI: How can journalism create hope and shift narratives? The last of @lewispants.bsky.social's column on movement journalism offers some clarity: objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/move...
“We’re about political education for everyone. And *everyone* includes folks who are currently incarcerated.”
Haymarket’s Books Not Bars program receives an average of 50 letters each week at its post office box, many of them requesting books about Black liberation, radical poetry, and political history.
Sending Books to Prisons
PW checks in with two prison literacy groups, one of which originated with a publisher and the other with a bookstore.
www.publishersweekly.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
“We’re about political education for everyone. And *everyone* includes folks who are currently incarcerated.”
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars For The Holidays
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the immense violence of the prison syste...
haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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If you're a provider of gender-affirming care, please check out The Good Health Project's Know Your Rights update/memo. Trans health care care is still lawful under federal law. static1.squarespace.com/static/686eb...
December 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
If you're a provider of gender-affirming care, please check out The Good Health Project's Know Your Rights update/memo. Trans health care care is still lawful under federal law. static1.squarespace.com/static/686eb...
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Join a webinar to learn more tomorrow at 4ET - details at link 👆🏼
December 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Join a webinar to learn more tomorrow at 4ET - details at link 👆🏼
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“It is critical to note that none of the proposed regulations or measures announced today change the current state of the law. It remains completely legal under federal law to provide gender affirming care to trans youth where not prohibited by state law.”
For folks curious re the news re gender affirming care for trans youth I wrote a quick summary in the BDNH newsletter
It’s NOT a national ban.
it creates no new civil or criminal penalties, it is a proposal to wield the power of the purse to discriminatorily deny care
mailchi.mp/interrupting...
It’s NOT a national ban.
it creates no new civil or criminal penalties, it is a proposal to wield the power of the purse to discriminatorily deny care
mailchi.mp/interrupting...
Proposed Regulations on Gender Affirming Care, Reflecting on 2025, Resistance Lab Jan 12th & more!
mailchi.mp
December 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
“It is critical to note that none of the proposed regulations or measures announced today change the current state of the law. It remains completely legal under federal law to provide gender affirming care to trans youth where not prohibited by state law.”
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The Trans Youth Emergency Project will continue helping families of transgender youth across the country locate providers and supporting the cost of travel to appointments. Learn more and get support: transyouthemergencyproject.org
December 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Trans Youth Emergency Project will continue helping families of transgender youth across the country locate providers and supporting the cost of travel to appointments. Learn more and get support: transyouthemergencyproject.org
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Today, several new federal rules impacting healthcare for trans youth were proposed. We want you to know that these rules are not yet finalized or in effect. We also want you to know that despite these attacks, gender-affirming care for youth remains accessible at many clinics.
December 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Today, several new federal rules impacting healthcare for trans youth were proposed. We want you to know that these rules are not yet finalized or in effect. We also want you to know that despite these attacks, gender-affirming care for youth remains accessible at many clinics.
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My latest, with @juliametraux.bsky.social, on the Trump admin's continued offensive against transgender Americans, their doctors, and the people who love them:
RFK Jr. could defund your hospital if he doesn’t get his way on trans healthcare
RFK Jr. could defund your hospital if he doesn't get his way.
The health department’s proposed regulations on gender affirming care for minors are not legally binding and are set to be challenged in court.
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
My latest, with @juliametraux.bsky.social, on the Trump admin's continued offensive against transgender Americans, their doctors, and the people who love them:
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One parishioner who lacks legal immigration status "learned about his rights for the first time at a freedom school and shared his new knowledge with his landscaping colleagues and neighbors, telling them not to open their doors during a warrantless raid.”
“Participants act out how to respond to encounters with immigrant agents in various situations, including agents coming to homes, stopping someone in their car or approaching a street vendor.” religionnews.com/2025/12/18/l...
How an LA interfaith coalition is using ‘freedom schools’ to defend against ICE
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — One LA is convening faith-based ‘freedom schools’ that help residents learn what to do if confronted by immigration enforcement. The movement also led to a recent public hearing.
religionnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
One parishioner who lacks legal immigration status "learned about his rights for the first time at a freedom school and shared his new knowledge with his landscaping colleagues and neighbors, telling them not to open their doors during a warrantless raid.”
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Looking for ways to plug in to efforts already in motion in your community and across the country to protect our families and neighbors—or to start your own? Check out our Block It! mini-toolkit. It's regularly updated, so check back often for new resources, ideas, and opportunities for action:
New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
December 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Looking for ways to plug in to efforts already in motion in your community and across the country to protect our families and neighbors—or to start your own? Check out our Block It! mini-toolkit. It's regularly updated, so check back often for new resources, ideas, and opportunities for action:
"More and more people who have never engaged in anything like these actions before are purposefully running toward the trouble. As much as their resistance can appear organic and spontaneous—and some of it is—it’s supported by deliberate effort, an infrastructure..."
ICE and CBP, among others, have violently retaliated against ICE Watch in part because the agencies correctly understand what many do not: Organized neighbors are mounting an effective defense, and an organized movement is a formidable adversary. My new feature: newrepublic.com/article/2042...
Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
newrepublic.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"More and more people who have never engaged in anything like these actions before are purposefully running toward the trouble. As much as their resistance can appear organic and spontaneous—and some of it is—it’s supported by deliberate effort, an infrastructure..."
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My latest, about @siembranc.bsky.social and how they organized in North Carolina to counter Operation Charlotte's Web and Border Patrol's latest anti-immigrant crackdown, co-published in @thenation.com and @southernstudies.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
How North Carolina Rose Up Against Trump’s Latest Anti-Immigrant Crackdown
“Operation Charlotte’s Web” may mobilize North Carolina’s working-class Latino members and allies to shift the political balance of power at the local, state, and national levels.
www.thenation.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
My latest, about @siembranc.bsky.social and how they organized in North Carolina to counter Operation Charlotte's Web and Border Patrol's latest anti-immigrant crackdown, co-published in @thenation.com and @southernstudies.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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insurance companies literally kill people
UnitedHealth reduced hospitalizations for nursing home seniors. Now it faces wrongful death claims
The company says it is protecting nursing home residents by curbing unnecessary hospital transfers. Whistleblowers allege cost-cutting tactics have endangered the elderly
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
insurance companies literally kill people
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"The polling comes as the U.S. is sending record amounts of military assistance to Israel as it commits genocide in Gaza. At the same time, the Trump administration is carrying out ... policy changes that researchers estimate will lead to tens of thousands of preventable [US] deaths each year."
New polling finds that a comfortable majority of Republicans say they would rather the U.S. fund health care programs at home than continue to send billions to Israel.
3 in 4 Republicans Under 45 Say They Prefer US Fund Health Care Over Israel
Support for unconditional funding for Israel is waning as Americans languish at home.
truthout.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"The polling comes as the U.S. is sending record amounts of military assistance to Israel as it commits genocide in Gaza. At the same time, the Trump administration is carrying out ... policy changes that researchers estimate will lead to tens of thousands of preventable [US] deaths each year."
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U.S.-based contractors are already vying for lucrative contracts to rebuild Gaza under the Trump-backed ceasefire deal. A new investigation found that the company behind “Alligator Alcatraz” has been involved in rebuilding plans spearheaded by Trump’s so-called Board of Peace.
Company Behind “Alligator Alcatraz” Vies for Contract to Rebuild Gaza
“People are lining up and treating this the way they treated reconstruction in Iraq,” says journalist Aram Roston.
buff.ly
December 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
U.S.-based contractors are already vying for lucrative contracts to rebuild Gaza under the Trump-backed ceasefire deal. A new investigation found that the company behind “Alligator Alcatraz” has been involved in rebuilding plans spearheaded by Trump’s so-called Board of Peace.
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“A child in the Nuseirat refugee camp died after triggering unexploded Israeli ordnance. And Doctors Without Borders said Thursday a 29-day-old baby died of hypothermia at Nasser Hospital, the latest Palestinian to freeze to death” #GazaGenocide
www.democracynow.org/2025/12/19/h...
www.democracynow.org/2025/12/19/h...
Another Infant Freezes to Death in Gaza as Israel Continues to Violate Oct. 10 Ceasefire
In Gaza, Israeli airstrikes on a town east of Khan Younis have killed four Palestinian civilians, including a woman, over the past 24 hours. This follows air and artillery strikes on the cities of Raf...
www.democracynow.org
December 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
“A child in the Nuseirat refugee camp died after triggering unexploded Israeli ordnance. And Doctors Without Borders said Thursday a 29-day-old baby died of hypothermia at Nasser Hospital, the latest Palestinian to freeze to death” #GazaGenocide
www.democracynow.org/2025/12/19/h...
www.democracynow.org/2025/12/19/h...
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Ceasefires are fragile political phrases, and only exist on paper. In reality, Palestinian families continue to be erased in moments justified by vague and unverified “security concerns.”
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/israel-is-still-killing-palestinians-including-14-of-my-relatives/
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/israel-is-still-killing-palestinians-including-14-of-my-relatives/
Israel is still killing Palestinians, including 14 of my relatives
Israel has reportedly violated the ceasefire at least 738 times, including on Nov. 22 when it bombed the homes of my family members
prismreports.org
December 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Ceasefires are fragile political phrases, and only exist on paper. In reality, Palestinian families continue to be erased in moments justified by vague and unverified “security concerns.”
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/israel-is-still-killing-palestinians-including-14-of-my-relatives/
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/israel-is-still-killing-palestinians-including-14-of-my-relatives/
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It’s concerning that we’re enabling a police and surveillance state of unprecedented scale at the same moment when the veracity of any textual or visual document has become structurally suspect
“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”
ICE Says U.S. Citizen's Birth Certificate Is Fake After Arresting Her: Attorneys
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
It’s concerning that we’re enabling a police and surveillance state of unprecedented scale at the same moment when the veracity of any textual or visual document has become structurally suspect
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“‘The extreme show of force here — seven armed agents in facemasks — was to intimidate staff so they could arrest our client in contravention of city law,’ Molly Lauterback, an immigration attorney with Brooklyn Defender Services, said in a statement.”
My latest months-long investigation: Inside the surge in ICE visits to NYC homeless shelters under the Trump administration.
Several incidents raise questions about whether city staff and federal agents are following the laws.
gothamist.com/news/ice-ent...
Several incidents raise questions about whether city staff and federal agents are following the laws.
gothamist.com/news/ice-ent...
ICE enters NYC shelters armed and without judicial warrants, reports show
Here's how 'incident reports' detail interactions between federal immigration enforcement officers and staff at city shelters for immigrants.
gothamist.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“‘The extreme show of force here — seven armed agents in facemasks — was to intimidate staff so they could arrest our client in contravention of city law,’ Molly Lauterback, an immigration attorney with Brooklyn Defender Services, said in a statement.”
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Teamsters Local 705 just confirmed that Bovino went with armed CBP agents to a Mauser picket line in Chicago this morning and "interrogated and laughed at our members while they were on the picket line." These workers went on strike to demand protections for immigrant workers, among other things.
How One Teamsters Local Is Striking to Protect Immigrant Workers - The American Prospect
The union wants bosses to turn away immigration authorities unless they show a signed judicial warrant, but resistance is fierce.
prospect.org
December 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Teamsters Local 705 just confirmed that Bovino went with armed CBP agents to a Mauser picket line in Chicago this morning and "interrogated and laughed at our members while they were on the picket line." These workers went on strike to demand protections for immigrant workers, among other things.
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For months, I've been talking to providers and researchers across the country to understand how the Trump administration's immigration policies are impacting reproductive health. The story is out today in @rewirenewsgroup.com. I hope you'll give it a read:
rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/12/17/i...
rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/12/17/i...
Pregnant Immigrants and Their Babies May Suffer Complications from Chronic Stress of ICE Raids, Experts Warn
At least two doctors say they're already seeing warning signs in patients, including high blood pressure and deteriorating mental health.
rewirenewsgroup.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
For months, I've been talking to providers and researchers across the country to understand how the Trump administration's immigration policies are impacting reproductive health. The story is out today in @rewirenewsgroup.com. I hope you'll give it a read:
rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/12/17/i...
rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/12/17/i...