Interrupting Criminalization
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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.
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New resource⚡ How to Clean Up Copaganda
We're pleased to share our new resource for journalists, communicators, and organizers responding to law enforcement disinformation.
Check out this online guide written by IC Abolition Journalism Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social, here: bit.ly/CleanUpCopag...
We're pleased to share our new resource for journalists, communicators, and organizers responding to law enforcement disinformation.
Check out this online guide written by IC Abolition Journalism Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social, here: bit.ly/CleanUpCopag...
Cambridge HEART is of the incredible community-based crisis response groups we chatted with on the 1ME podcast—they're hosting a virtual fundraiser 🗓️tomorrow at 6-8 PM ET. If you can, please grab a ticket and/or support their work with a donation! cambridgeheart.networkforgood.com/events/91779...
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Cambridge HEART is of the incredible community-based crisis response groups we chatted with on the 1ME podcast—they're hosting a virtual fundraiser 🗓️tomorrow at 6-8 PM ET. If you can, please grab a ticket and/or support their work with a donation! cambridgeheart.networkforgood.com/events/91779...
Calling the police is far too often a death sentence for people who are or are perceived to be experiencing a mental health crisis.
Do not call the cops.
Do not call the cops.
Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.
Three former San Antonio police officers were acquitted on Monday of all charges related to the fatal shooting of a woman who appeared to be having a mental health crisis when they were dispatched to her apartment in 2023. nyti.ms/4qRnvvT
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Calling the police is far too often a death sentence for people who are or are perceived to be experiencing a mental health crisis.
Do not call the cops.
Do not call the cops.
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Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.
Three former San Antonio police officers were acquitted on Monday of all charges related to the fatal shooting of a woman who appeared to be having a mental health crisis when they were dispatched to her apartment in 2023. nyti.ms/4qRnvvT
3 San Antonio Officers Acquitted in Fatal Shooting of Woman in 2023
Melissa Perez, 46, swung a hammer in their direction and appeared to be in distress in her home when the officers arrived, officials said.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.
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I'm in Detroit. It's 25 degrees & dropping. I met a woman who has slept outside for 5 months. Yesterday, all of her belongings, incl her blankets, were thrown away. She has nowhere else to go.
It doesn't have to be like this. Housing + support solves homelessness. We need political will.
It doesn't have to be like this. Housing + support solves homelessness. We need political will.
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I'm in Detroit. It's 25 degrees & dropping. I met a woman who has slept outside for 5 months. Yesterday, all of her belongings, incl her blankets, were thrown away. She has nowhere else to go.
It doesn't have to be like this. Housing + support solves homelessness. We need political will.
It doesn't have to be like this. Housing + support solves homelessness. We need political will.
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Richest nation in human history
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Richest nation in human history
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yes, this is the actual purpose of policing.
Weird way to tell folks you are a fascist.
Barstow police to step up patrols at grocery stores with millions set to lose SNAP benefits | abc7.com abc7.com/amp/post/bar...
Barstow police to step up patrols at grocery stores with millions set to lose SNAP benefits | abc7.com abc7.com/amp/post/bar...
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October 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
yes, this is the actual purpose of policing.
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New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers.
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The NYPD’s Watchdog Whitewashed More Than 10,000 Misconduct Allegations in Public Data, New Evidence Shows
Allegations of lying, sexual misconduct, bigoted statements, and racist policing were among those quietly reclassified by the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers.
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Happening now: a small demonstration is getting underway in front of Chicago Police Department HQ, protesting cooperation between CPD and federal immigration agents.
One demonstrator is holding up a photo of Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino shaking hands with a CPD officer.
One demonstrator is holding up a photo of Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino shaking hands with a CPD officer.
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Happening now: a small demonstration is getting underway in front of Chicago Police Department HQ, protesting cooperation between CPD and federal immigration agents.
One demonstrator is holding up a photo of Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino shaking hands with a CPD officer.
One demonstrator is holding up a photo of Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino shaking hands with a CPD officer.
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Alderman Sigcho-Lopez was right to call out Pritzker today about the state police arresting protesters. Pritzker responded that the state police are protecting protesters, and that just isn't true. State cops have arrested and brutalized protesters to facilitate ICE operations. That's reality.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Alderman Sigcho-Lopez was right to call out Pritzker today about the state police arresting protesters. Pritzker responded that the state police are protecting protesters, and that just isn't true. State cops have arrested and brutalized protesters to facilitate ICE operations. That's reality.
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SCOOP: ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.
ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants
Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
SCOOP: ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.
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Little Village community organizer Chela Garcia starts the demo by calling out Chicago police for, she says, shielding federal agents as they attempted to detain a minor this weekend.
"Every time police collaborate with ICE, they are not serving us. They are serving a racist agenda," she says.
"Every time police collaborate with ICE, they are not serving us. They are serving a racist agenda," she says.
November 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Little Village community organizer Chela Garcia starts the demo by calling out Chicago police for, she says, shielding federal agents as they attempted to detain a minor this weekend.
"Every time police collaborate with ICE, they are not serving us. They are serving a racist agenda," she says.
"Every time police collaborate with ICE, they are not serving us. They are serving a racist agenda," she says.
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Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
www.404media.co
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
Reaching out, connecting and coming together with others, and committing to collective care and action. There is no other way to navigate what we are experiencing.
Art by @ollycostello.bsky.social
Art by @ollycostello.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Reaching out, connecting and coming together with others, and committing to collective care and action. There is no other way to navigate what we are experiencing.
Art by @ollycostello.bsky.social
Art by @ollycostello.bsky.social
"We are talking about *life*—the ways we depend on one other and sustain each other as we make and unmake each other. Even when we fail, and our spirits collapse, we are living in opposition to that which would destroy us. We are living and fighting for each other, and that means we have a chance."
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"We are talking about *life*—the ways we depend on one other and sustain each other as we make and unmake each other. Even when we fail, and our spirits collapse, we are living in opposition to that which would destroy us. We are living and fighting for each other, and that means we have a chance."
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Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
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Great read about Chicago’s growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz. Story of community, solidarity, and empathy bringing the children of day laborers together with suburban moms. Gift link. By Andrew Carter @chicagotribune.com
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
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Inside Chicago’s growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz: ‘Small acts have huge consequences’
In Chicago, the resistance to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation mission has taken many forms. A movement has grown through acts large and small.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Great read about Chicago’s growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz. Story of community, solidarity, and empathy bringing the children of day laborers together with suburban moms. Gift link. By Andrew Carter @chicagotribune.com
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
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The most heartening thing about right now is the propensity of my neighbors to run towards trouble
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The most heartening thing about right now is the propensity of my neighbors to run towards trouble
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Members of the community yell towards Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and federal officers while they conduct an immigration enforcement action Friday in Waukegan.
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Members of the community yell towards Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and federal officers while they conduct an immigration enforcement action Friday in Waukegan.
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“The regime wants all of us afraid. It is counting on fear immobilizing us and perhaps even turning us against each other. Instead, what we are currently seeing in Chicago is that solidarity can overcome fear and can give people the courage and tenacity to fight for each other.” --Mariame Kaba
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“The regime wants all of us afraid. It is counting on fear immobilizing us and perhaps even turning us against each other. Instead, what we are currently seeing in Chicago is that solidarity can overcome fear and can give people the courage and tenacity to fight for each other.” --Mariame Kaba
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Chicagoans never stop. I was just watching a live stream of a press conference held by community members in front of FBI headquarters. In the rain in the dark. Umbrellas at hand they are calling for the release of 6 people taken by ICE, 3 also arrested by CPD. They never stop fighting.
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Chicagoans never stop. I was just watching a live stream of a press conference held by community members in front of FBI headquarters. In the rain in the dark. Umbrellas at hand they are calling for the release of 6 people taken by ICE, 3 also arrested by CPD. They never stop fighting.
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"As ICE and other federal agencies storm cities across the country in a sweeping immigration crackdown, one seismic policy change has largely flown under the radar: the assault on DACA and the more than 515,000 recipients currently in the program." https://bit.ly/49Kmtvp
Then they came for the Dreamers
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"As ICE and other federal agencies storm cities across the country in a sweeping immigration crackdown, one seismic policy change has largely flown under the radar: the assault on DACA and the more than 515,000 recipients currently in the program." https://bit.ly/49Kmtvp
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“My son was completely shut down emotionally after this happened.”
Chicago Parents Denounce ICE For Violently Detaining Beloved Daycare Teacher in Front of Toddlers
Last week, at the Spanish-immersion daycare center Rayito del Sol in Chicago, employee Diana Santillana was violently abducted and detained by immigration agents in front of parents and young children...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“My son was completely shut down emotionally after this happened.”
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A high school student and budding mariachi recounts the damage done to his family by two separate immigration raids, four months apart, detailing the lasting trauma federal enforcement is leaving on brown youth across the U.S.
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
A high school student and budding mariachi recounts the damage done to his family by two separate immigration raids, four months apart, detailing the lasting trauma federal enforcement is leaving on brown youth across the U.S.
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
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I'm in @thenation.com this morning on the repeated failure of transphobia as political strategy, efforts to scapegoat trans people for Democrats' own failures, and Zohran Mamdani's model of solidarity
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I'm in @thenation.com this morning on the repeated failure of transphobia as political strategy, efforts to scapegoat trans people for Democrats' own failures, and Zohran Mamdani's model of solidarity
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November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM