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.

In this teach-in the For The People Leftist Library Project (FTP) covered the various intersections of libraries, library work, and criminalization, including surveillance and privacy issues, retribution against library workers, social work and social services, and more. The session included power mapping, resource-sharing, and opportunities for discussion.

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.

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.

Health care workers are placed in many situations where their loyalty to their patient is in conflict with their (purported) loyalty to the state. And while some legal protections are in place to protect health care workers who refuse to engage in these carceral collaborations, it is often unclear when and where a worker is protected.

What does it mean when healthcare providers are part of systems that cause patients harm and actively undermine the respect, privacy, and care that patients seek?

The vast majority of people involved in direct or indirect patient care came to this work hoping to help people. Yet, certain policies and common practices in health care settings make it difficult for healthcare workers to fulfill this purpose…

The guide offers prompts for self-reflection, study groups, organizing and advocacy collectives, and to spark conversation within organizing communities.

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

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.

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.

A report synopsis of a 3-year community story-telling project engaging youth in Columbia, S.C., New York City, and the Bay Area around their experiences of police presence in schools, including sexual harassment, assault, and violence by police stationed in and around schools.

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.