Join Interrupting Criminalization’s Abolition Journalism Fellow Lewis Raven Wallace and fellow journalists and media makers for our latest resistance lab, focused on keeping our sources safe:

Wednesday, July 16 at: 6-8 PM ET / 5-7 PM CT / 3-5 PM PT on Zoom

Communities including immigrants, trans people, Palestinians, journalists, and anyone at these intersections are increasingly threatened by surveillance, threats to safety, and doxxing and harassment. 

In this two-hour session, we will think through and skill-share ways of keeping our sources safer when reporting in a context of criminalization and surveillance. We will also introduce a new Digital Security and Doxxing Prevention Checklist for sources, which serves as an introductory guide to cleaning up your digital presence to make it more difficult for hackers, doxxers, and government agencies to access your personal information or harass you against your will. 

In addition to introducing and exploring this new tool, we will also discuss:

• How and why is criminalization escalating? What is the effect of surveillance on our work as media makers?

• How do we assess risk in a changing environment?

• What is our responsibility as media makers to criminalized communities? 

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. 

Participation in our meetups and resistance labs in 2025 requires a small application, after which you will receive a link good for any of these events. This builds on the content introduced in our earlier Resistance Lab in April, but you do not need to have attended that one to join now. If you have already attended a meetup or resistance lab this year, your Zoom registration is good for any upcoming event! 

If you have questions, email ravenjournalist@proton.me.