A toolkit offering resources, responses, and questions to consider in building robust community ecosystems of collective care at the neighborhood and city-wide levels. Based on Interrupting Criminalization’s work and practice spaces, and aimed at helping communities seeking to strengthen networks of community care and advance transformative justice.

A report summarizing the impacts of the global drug war on Black women, girls, and trans and gender nonconforming people, as well as the Black feminist visions, analysis, and needs articulated during the Building Black Feminist Visions to End the Drug War convening hosted by Interrupting Criminalization, the Drug Policy Alliance, and In Our Names Network in June 2023.

Chart breaking down the difference between reformist reforms which continue or expand the reach of the drug war, and abolitionist steps that work to chip away and reduce its overall impact. Originally from the report, Building Black Feminist Visions to End the Drug War.

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.

Illustrated graphic notes from a public panel kicking off How Do We Relate to the State?, a two-day virtual convening hosted by IC in September 2023.

A summary of lessons learned over the past two years of IC’s monthly, virtual peer learning space for organizations working to collectively intervene in and respond to crises without police — including issues explored, resources shared, questions to consider, and pitfalls to avoid.

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.

This is a reading and discussion guide for Practicing New Worlds by Andrea J. Ritchie, an exploration of how emergent strategies can help us meet this moment, survive what is to come, and shape safer and more just futures.

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.

A resource for media on covering Palestine and Israel. This guide attempts to unpack a few key places where IDF propaganda shows up in news reporting, offers tips for what (and what NOT) to do in coverage, and shares additional recommended resources.

Challenging, interrupting, and building a world beyond criminalization is the unifying thread of IC’s work — and of the infrastructure and resources we are creating to support organizers on the ground across the country. Learn more in this summary of IC’s first five years of work.

An annotated version of the indictment filed against #StopCopCity organizers, featuring critical information and context, questions for discussion, and more.

Practicing New Worlds explores how principles of emergence, adaptation, iteration, resilience, transformation, interdependence, decentralization and fractalization can shape organizing toward a world without the violence of surveillance, police, prisons, jails, or cages of any kind, in which we collectively have everything we need to survive and thrive.

A resource for journalists covering the issue of sexual violence by law enforcement agents, including police, school “resource” officers, school “safety” officers, private security stationed in schools, probation, parole, and immigration authorities, and Customs and Border Patrol.

A resource summarizing key information from the Building Black Feminist Visions to End the Drug War convening, which took place in June 2023, bringing together dozens of Black feminist leaders and allies from 6 countries to explore the possibilities for a shared Black feminist vision and plan of action toward a world that centers bodily autonomy and self-determination in all forms.

An introduction to Police Fraternal Organizations, including what they are, why we should care, how they harm women and girls of color, and systemic responses we can use to combat them.

A resource explaining why it is important to focus on police fraternal organizations as we work to divest from policing and create safer communities, including FAQs and core strategies for challenging and shrinking the power, resources, and legitimacy of PFOs.

Una herramienta para reflexión y discusión para organizadores abolicionistas.

A resource for media and communicators covering the recent indictments of #StopCopCity organizers in Atlanta on how to avoid perpetuating copaganda.

This zine by Interrupting Criminalization's Beyond Do No Harm Network Fellow Maria Thomas, “A View from the Global South,” is in dialogue with IC’s Abolition and the State: A Discussion Guide.