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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/
This session is in-person in Brooklyn, and sliding scale. There are 3 required readings (+ additional readings if you're so inclined).

It's hard to believe, but this is our LAST weekend of Communiversity! If you'd like to join us IRL for this session with @prisonculture.bsky.social, sign up ASAP.
Required Readings
Required Introduction from Left of Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones by Carole Boyce Davies Selections from Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the …
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November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Check out our latest 1ME newsletter for more—it includes a new "So You Started An Experiment" resource which compiles videos, slides and workbook pages drawn from our Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox series to support groups getting ahead of the inevitable conflicts that come up in organizing:
#8: "So you started an experiment..." + S3 Zine
Welcome Back to the One Million Experiments Newsletter.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
In these episodes, we chat with organizers from community-based crisis response projects who we've been following since 2020, and ask them what lessons they would share with themselves if they were just starting out today.

Want an overview? Prefer reading? Check out our latest 1ME zine:
Crisis Edition
For Season 3 of the One Million Experiments Podcast, we asked organizers from different crisis response projects what lessons they would share with themselves if they were just starting out today. Thi...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
If you’re working on or building a community crisis response team or other intervention without using the police and other carceral systems, we offer support, thought partnership, and one-on-one consultation through our free Transformative Justice Help Desk, staffed by IC Fellow Shira Hassan:
Transformative Justice Help Desk — Interrupting Criminalization
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
As cops continue to use any pretext to criminalize, harass and enact violence, especially against Black, brown and unhoused people, it is critical that we're working to build non-carceral community crisis responses.

Read our Building Coordinated Crisis Response learning space report for more:
Building Coordinated Crisis Response Learning Space — Interrupting Criminalization
A summary of lessons learned over the past two years of IC’s monthly, virtual peer learning space for organizations working to collectively intervene in and respond to crises without police — includin...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Written by longtime crisis responders and TJ organizers IC Fellow Shira Hassan and co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social, this resource documents conversations between them about the patterns they see, in the hopes that it offers some insight, care, and support to anyone doing this vital work.
November 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Learn more about the Homes for All campaign:
Homes For All - Right to the City
We demand HOMES FOR ALL that are safe, affordable and dignified. Join the “Can’t Wait List” for housing justice.
www.righttothecity.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM