Wednesday, October 15 at 3-4 PM ET / 12-1 PM PT
We are currently experiencing a rapid expansion in the criminalization of solidarity, and the criminalization of targeted groups including migrants, trans people, Black people, Palestinians, and solidarity activists. How can media and organizers push back against criminalizing narratives through our story choice, framing, and language? Join Interrupting Criminalization's Andrea J. Ritchie, Abolition Journalism Fellow Lewis Raven Wallace, and author Dean Spade for a discussion of how to advance narratives that undermine authoritarianism and increase solidarity.
Dean Spade has collaborated with the Community Justice Exchange to create a guide, Five Questions for Cultivating Solidarity When Responding to Political Repression, designed to help advocates and journalists frame stories in ways that increase solidarity and decrease the powerful narratives of the state.
Since 2022, IC's Abolition Journalism Fellowship has been developing resources for journalist, media makers, and advocates to resist police, military, and border patrol propaganda that justifies and expands criminalization (find this resource series linked below, or at: bit.ly/copagandist). Our newest online resource, How to Clean Up Copaganda, will provide concrete tools for journalists who want to tell stories that don't reinforce police, ICE, CBP, and federal government narratives of criminalization that are fueling and manufacturing consent for mounting authoritarian criminalization, militarization, and occupation in the U.S. and beyond.
This one-hour webinar will present the key questions and framing in these resources, and leave time for questions. This session is geared toward media, journalists, and movement communicators, but open to all.
To attend, you must register by October 15th at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT.
“Don’t Be A Copagandist!” Series
Resource guides for media and communicators on covering criminalization — including “crime” and violence, drug use and the war on drugs, migration, and more.
These guides are written with journalists and communicators in mind, but it are helpful for anyone to read and take note of, regardless of profession.
Abolition Media Office Hours
Free office hours for journalists, communicators, and media makers who are looking for support or thought partnership, staffed by Abolition Journalism Fellow Lewis Raven Wallace. These office hours are also available to support organizers regarding media and campaign messaging.