This will be a casual, quarterly meetup lasting 90 minutes on Zoom. We welcome movement journalists and those working in mainstream organizations, as well as activist media makers and communications workers, who face some of the same vulnerabilities and ethical issues as journalists whether or not their work is recognized as journalism.  (All times are EST.)

Join the National Lawyers Guild Detroit & Michigan Chapter for their Legacy Dinner on May 17th, featuring IC co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie as the keynote speaker. The dinner is an opportunity for like-minded lawyers, legal workers, activists, and supporters to network and be in community together, and to hear remarks from Andrea. (All times are local, or EST.)

An outdoor picnic at Haymarket House in Chicago to celebrate the release of Prisons Must Fall, the new children’s book by IC co-founder Mariame Kaba and Jane Ball and illustrated by Olly Costello. This family-friendly event features a read-aloud, activities for young people and adults alike, and food. (All times are local, or CST.)

An informal accountability group or space for people who are and/or who want to take consistent community action and want to reflect with others, hosted by IC co-founder Mariame Kaba. (All times in EST.)

As part of our “Don’t Be A Copagandist” series, Interrupting Criminalization and Migrant Roots Media will share some general guidelines for writing about and telling migration stories through a lens that centers the root causes of migration. (All times in EST.)

Join Mariame Kaba of Interrupting Criminalization and Sojourners for Justice Press for a discussion about Black women (self) publishers. (All times in EST.)

Join For The People Leftist Library Project (FTP) for the launch of a new toolkit to encourage public library defenders to organize and conduct a local People’s Assembly (PA) to advocate and mobilize for your local library. (All times in EST.)

Join Tuscon Bail Fund and Respair Production & Media in Tuscon, Arizona, for an in-person screening of the One Million Experiments film, which explores how we define and create safety in a world without police and prisons. (Times is MST.)

As we face an escalating, carceral state, we must increasingly champion abolitionist principles. This is especially important in health care settings. Join us for a teach-in on how to support both patients and clinicians in fighting for a world where providing and accessing healthcare is just that — the simple act of giving and receiving care, unencumbered by carceral, racist, and commercial forces. (All times in EST.)

Join Andrea J. Ritchie, Rachel Herzing, Scot Nakagawa, Ejeris Dixon, and Woods Erwin in exploring the central role of criminalization in shaping the current and evolving political terrain, and the essential role of challenging criminalization in strategies for resistance and solidarity across movements to fight fascism and authoritarianism worldwide. (All times in EST.)

In this two-hour session, we will think through and skill-share ways of keeping our communities and sources safer when reporting in a context of criminalization and surveillance. (All times in EST.)

Join For The People Leftist Library Project (FTP) and Interrupting Criminalization (IC) for a workshop building off of our 2023 Criminalization 101 for Information Workers workshop. (All times are EST.)

We're checking back in with Yo No Fui (“It Wasn’t Me!”) a collective in Argentina that uses art, poetry, and popular education to organize across prison walls with incarcerated queer folks and women in Argentina. (All times are EST.)

This will be a casual, quarterly meetup lasting 90 minutes on Zoom. We welcome movement journalists and those working in mainstream organizations, as well as activist media makers and communications workers, who face some of the same vulnerabilities and ethical issues as journalists whether or not their work is recognized as journalism. (All times are EST.)

Are you interested in forming a crisis response team that doesn't use the police? Join us for this workshop with Shira Hassan, the latest in our Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox series with Project NIA.

A discussion and screening of One Million Experiments, a film exploring how people are defining and creating safety to build a world without police and prisons, followed by a conversation with Mariame Kaba and Eva Nagao

Presented by BCRW and the Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University, a day-long symposium featuring a keynote by Angela Davis and Barbara Ransby, panels with nationally recognized scholars, and a celebratory reception.

Facilitated by JJ Skolnik and Mariame Kaba, join us as we introduce our new pocket zine along with a mini-training geared towards youth. A Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox session.

Join the Barnard Center for Research on Women for the second annual Grace Lee Boggs ‘35 Lecture with Mariame Kaba, longtime organizer, educator, librarian and co-author of Let This Radicalize You.

Mariame Kaba shares her thoughts and practice of reading, writing, and compiling zines, as part of the public lecture series on zines hosted by the School for Poetic Computation.

This event has been canceled, and we invite everyone to join us in attending the Abolition Means No More War: Free Palestine Now! event being hosted Critical Resistance and Haymarket Books at this time. 🇵🇸 Palestine will be free.

Andrea J. Ritchie, Mimi Kim, Kalayo Pestaño, Matice Mooore, and Stas Schmiedt in a virtual conversation about emergent strategies and anti-violence movements.

Abolitionist writer Andrea J. Ritchie joins Firestorm Books for a conversation with Shane Burley about using emergent strategies to meet this moment, survive what is to come, and shape safer and more just futures.

Red Emma's in Baltimore welcomes abolitionist author, activist, and attorney Andrea J. Ritchie in person to celebrate the release of her new book, " Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies."

The closing reception of the Return to Sender: Prison as Censorship exhibition at the EFA Project Space in NYC.

Return to Sender: Prison As Censorship exhibition curator Mariame Kaba will provide 45-minute tours every hour on the hour throughout the day at the EFA Project Space in NYC.

Practicing New Worlds author Andrea J. Ritchie in conversation with Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Brittany Brathwaite at the National Women’s Studies Association conference in Baltimore.

A teach-in on Criminalization 101 for Information Workers facilitated by For The People Leftist Library, as part of Interrupting Criminalization and Project NIA’s Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox series.

Charis welcomes Andrea J. Ritchie in conversation with Kamau Franklin, Micah Herskind, and Dr. Mariah Parker for a discussion of Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies.

Join co-authors Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba in conversation with Tanuja Jagernauth about their book Let This Radicalize You, hosted by DePaul Women’s Center.