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Five Questions for Cultivating Solidarity When Responding to Political Repression

DocumentPilar WeissJune 10, 2024Dissent, Community Interventions

Radical Healing, Abolition and Popular Education

VideoPilar WeissAugust 15, 2023Immigration Detention and Enforcement, Community Interventions

Beyond Criminal Courts: Defund and Divest

Beyond Criminal Courts: Defund and Divest is a digital resource hub for organizers, advocates and community members working together to build the organizing-power we need to defund, divest, and ultimately to dismantle criminal courts for good. It is a collaborative project created by Community Justice Exchange and Interrupting Criminalization, with incredible web design and development by Research Action Design, illustrations by Noah Jodice, and Spanish translation by tilde Language Justice Collaborative.

Website, DocumentDavid NalaNovember 15, 2022Criminalization, Community Interventions

Decarceration During COVID-19: A Messaging Toolkit for Campaigns for Mass Release

This document provides some guidance and tools for families, organizers, and advocates who are demanding real decarceration and health equity while pushing back against the false narratives that invoke public health in order to uphold mass criminalization and incarceration during COVID-19.

Document, ToolkitDavid NalaNovember 10, 2022Criminalization, Community Interventions

Direct Action for Prison Abolition Web Zine

In the context of a global pandemic, and an unprecedented uprising for Black liberation and against policing, we created this educational resource for abolitionist organizers considering strategic escalation of tactics in our campaigns to free them all and defund policing.

DocumentDavid NalaNovember 9, 2022Community Interventions

Ending the Criminalization of Failure-To-Appear: An Organizers’ Guide to Demanding Court Changes in the Time of COVID-19

This document provides guidance for organizers in their fights to end the criminalization of failures-to-appear, as a step towards decarceration and abolition.

DocumentDavid NalaNovember 8, 2022Criminalization, Community Interventions

From Data Criminalization to Prison Abolition

This report and website provide frameworks and tools for organizers who are working to oppose the interlocking systems of incarceration, criminalization, and social control.

Document, Webinar, WebsiteDavid NalaNovember 7, 2022Criminalization, Community Interventions, Social control

So You Want To Court Watch? Guide

This guide is written for organizers who are thinking about using courtwatching as a tactic within a larger campaign strategy to dismantle the criminal legal or immigration systems.

DocumentDavid NalaNovember 3, 2022Criminal Courts & Pretrial Freedom, Community Interventions

Transparency is Not Enough: Framework and Curriculum

The Transparency is Not Enough introductory framework and workshop curriculum were created for activists, organizers, advocates, and community members thinking about transparency and access when developing campaigns that target the criminal legal system.