Beyond Do No Harm Storytelling Media Project
Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project shares stories of health care workers interrupting criminalization to increase awareness of the harmful impacts of criminalization within the medical system and invite people to take action at multiple levels. This project aims to highlight the actions workers are already taking to interrupt criminalization in the context of care, in the hopes of inspiring others to do the same.
Black Study
A zine from Mariame Kaba that situates study itself as an act of defiance, remembrance and freedom work by tracing the enduring legacy of David Walker’s An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829), a radical pamphlet calling for Black resistance, self-determination, and liberation.
Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism Zine — Volume 1: YoNoFui
A zine on transnational authoritarian collaborations and abolitionist resistance — available in English and Spanish. The zine summarizes a conversation with Yo No Fui, an abolitionist and antifascist collective in Argentina, that took place during Interrupting Criminalization’s Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism webinar series.
Protest, Power, and the Violence Debate: A Zine
A zine on protest, power, and “violence” in social movements, adapted directly from Chapter 6 of the book Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba.
Digital Security & Doxxing Prevention Checklist
A checklist and resource for people concerned about digital security and doxxing, whether you are a journalist or someone whose name or face appears in media or social media. There are steps that you can take to clean up your digital presence so that it’s more difficult for people to hack your accounts or track down information about you. Available in Spanish.
A [short] History of U.S. Police & Tear Gas
A zine by Mariame Kaba that goes over some historical background about U.S. police and their use of tear gas, along with archival photos and documents from Kaba’s collection.
Block & Build
Inspired by “Block & Build” sheets circulating, Interrupting Criminalization offers an abolitionist take on strategic frameworks for fighting Right-wing, authoritarian, and fascist agendas and regimes.
Criminalizing Librarians
Most often, attacks on libraries focus on books—various interest groups have tried to remove a wide range of books from library shelves. Sometimes, though, librarians who take the egalitarian mission of the library seriously have also become targets of their communities or of the state.
Arrested at the Library
Read, print, and share Interrupting Criminalization’s new zine. Readers will learn about the history of police in libraries, tales of librarians who have been targeted by law enforcement and those that have resisted policing the stacks. With books, libraries, and library patrons under threat, explore histories of resistance to policing inside libraries and the calls to action going out today.
Abolition and the State: Responses Vol. 3
This is the third ‘zine in a series responding to or engaging with questions relating to the role of the state in abolitionist futures. This ‘zine features a lightly edited transcript of a presentation given by academic, activist, writer Nazan Üstündağ.
Painting the Ocean & the Sky
A resource for anyone working to build collective community-based, non-carceral responses to crisis. This piece helps refine some necessary language that current abolitionist activists and organizers are using in this work, and helps us to make critical distinctions and ask ourselves critical questions as we build and learn from our work together.
A Riot at the United Nations
A riot broke out at the United Nations in February of 1961. Protestors including Maya Angelou, Mae Mallory, LeRoi Jones, and many more demanded justice for the U.S. sanctioned murder of Patrice Lumumba. This zine from Mariame Kaba tells the story of this protest.
Abolitionist Bystander Intervention & De-escalation
A pocket zine on bystander intervention and de-escalation, as an abolitionist practice for dealing with harm or potential harm in your community without involving the police.
Workshop: You Matter, Young People and Mandated Reporting
The reality of mandatory reporting can make it hard for young people to know that if they reach out to adults for help will that adult have to report what you tell them? This zine helps answer the question, “What is mandatory reporting?” and helps explore what support you have, what support you need, and uses art, poetry, and music to explore what’s possible.
Abolition and the State: Responses Vol. 1
This is the first in a series of ‘zines engaging questions raised in Interrupting Criminalization’s Abolition and the State: A Discussion Guide.
Workshop: Caregivers & Kids Building Communities of Care
In this edition of BYATB, Mariame Kaba and zara raven will discuss Queenie’s Crew, an experiment in supporting kids and caregivers in learning about abolition through monthly activities, books, events, and discussions. We’ll share tangible actions that people can take toward building communities of care with children in the spaces where you are. We’ll also invite participants to share about some of the ways they are already building these communities, discuss the barriers and challenges that arise along the way, and offer specific resources to support folks in learning to build abolitionist, intergenerational communities of care.
Steep Yourself in Let This Radicalize You
“Steep Yourself in Let This Radicalize You” is a tea practice zine for reflection, enjoyment, and exploration. While this zine was designed for tea drinkers, readers who prefer coffee and other beverages will still benefit from the questions and prompts for reflection and visualization!
Let This Radicalize You Reflections from New Activists and Organizers
This zine was created as a complimentary project to Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba, and features reflections from new activists and organizers.
Police Abolition 101
Police Abolition 101 is a collaborative zine based on material by MPD 150 and on a report titled "What's Next?" edited by Interrupting Criminalization and Project NIA.
What About The Rapists?
When prison industrial complex abolitionists tell people that they want to abolish police and prisons, they invariably ask, “what about the rapists?” Explore brief answers to this question, as well as questions that abolitionists can ask in return.