Interrupting Criminalization

The shape of Iran with the words NO WAR WITH IRAN over it

The attacks on Iran, including one which killed dozens at a school for girls, are beyond horrific. End the US/Israel war machine now!

A photo of Ida B. Wells labeled with her name. Reads: Documented lynching as a tool of racial terror in the wake of the legal abolition of slavery & campaigned internationally to end it, carrying the abolitionist tradition into struggles against Jim Crow & racist violence.

A photo of Angela Davis labeled with her name. Reads: A communist, feminist, scholar, & author, her own imprisonment helped lead her to a radical critique of prisons. Later, she was instrumental in developing the concept the concept of the prison-industrial complex & called for its abolition—not reform.

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Text reads Black History Month: Black Women Abolitionists, with pictures of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Sarah Parker Remond, Ida B. Wells, & Angela Davis

A photo of Sojourner Truth labeled with her name. Reads: After freeing herself in 1826, she became a traveling speaker linking abolition & women’s rights. She confronted white audiences, including Abraham Lincoln, about Black liberation.

A photo of Harriet Tubman labeled with her name. Reads: Escaped slavery in 1849, then returned repeatedly to lead dozens of people to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Led a raid on the Combahee River, freeing hundreds of enslaved Africans. Later worked as a scout, spy, & nurse for the Union Army.

A photo of Sarah Parker Remond labeled with her name. Reads: A free Black lecturer & American Anti-Slavery Society agent, she spoke across the North & in Britain to build transatlantic support for US abolition. Later became a physician in Italy.

Today is the last day of #BlackHistoryMonth, and we want to honor some inspirational Black women abolitionists from the last 200+ years. Swipe through to read! #AbolitionNow 1/2

Virtual meetup Journalists and Media Makers Concerned About Criminalization March 5 3pm - 4:30pm ET | 12pm - 1:30pm PT

Journalists and Media Makers Concerned about Criminalization Meetup!

March 5, 2026, 3pm-4:30pm EST

We welcome journalists, activist media makers, & communications workers who want to discuss criminalization & abolition!

Short application here: bit.ly/JournalistsMeetupReg

#11: Porch Side Abolition New Zine: "50 Ways To Meet Your Neighbor"

A new edition of the 1 Million Experiments zine is here! It’s terrific as usual and includes a new zine which is a treasure. To jump-start neighborly relations, try one of the 50 (mostly untried) ways to meet your neighbors. Get into some Porchside Abolition. open.substack.com/pub/millione...

Virtual meetup Journalists and Media Makers Concerned About Criminalization March 5 3pm - 4:30pm ET | 12pm - 1:30pm PT

Journalists and Media Makers Concerned about Criminalization Meetup!

March 5, 2026, 3pm-4:30pm EST

We welcome journalists, activist media makers, & communications workers who want to discuss criminalization & abolition!

Short application here: bit.ly/JournalistsMeetupReg

Nick Fuentes Wants Women in “Gulags.” Here’s Why That Matters. "Gender has always been an important throughline of fascist politics," says Shane Burley.

Infamous far-right pundit wants to criminalize and imprison an entire gender.

Sex Trafficking Prosecutions Won’t Stop the Next Epstein. Here’s What Will. We can fight child sexual abuse using a block-and-build strategy rooted in economic, racial, and gender justice.

A world without child sexual abuse is winnable—but few have organized around this at scale. This vacuum has allowed right-wing and carceral liberal forces to use the Epstein case to push intensified criminalization, policing, & prisons, including efforts to further criminalize the sex industry."

Abolition Is Still the Only Way Out of This Forget the useless so-called “reforms” to ICE and policing currently on offer. We need much more fundamental change.

Democrats are suggesting reforms for ICE, but the reality is: abolition is the way forward, not reform.

Read the latest from our co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie in @thenation.com!

Interrupting Criminalization IC offers political education materials, organizing tools, support skill-building and practice spaces for organizers and movements challenging criminalization and the violence of policing and punishme...

ICYMI: our latest Newsletter: 💻 Transformative Justice Webinar, Other Upcoming Events

No prior experience required! Together, we'll explore TJ and Camila's "Beyond Accountability" workbook, and discuss how you might use this tool in your own work and communities.

This visual session will not be recorded. Registered attendees will receive the Zoom link the day of the event.

Accountability Beyond Punishment Workbook — Interrupting Criminalization Join Interrupting Criminalization for a virtual session on transformative justice with organizer and transformative justice facilitator Camila Pelsinger Villalba. This session is for people who are pr...

🗓️Tomorrow, Feb. 12 at 6:30-8 PM ET: If you're practicing or curious about transformative justice, survivor support and community-based responses to harm, join us for this webinar with organizer and TJ facilitator Camila Pelsinger Villalba.

ASL and live captioning provided. Learn more and register:

People are resisting and organizing against the expansion of immigrant detention in their communities. Check out this Feb. 19 @detentionwatchnetwork.org webinar to learn more about such efforts through DWN's Communities Not Cages campaign, and to hear insights from organizers in CA, FL, and KS:

Block It! — Interrupting Criminalization

If you're looking for ways to jump in and help disrupt and chip away at the ICE kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine where you are, our BLOCK IT! toolkit is updated regularly with campaigns and strategies you can join or build near you, as well as inspiration and ideas. Check it out here:

These are the high schoolers taking a stand against ICE: ‘You can’t let despair take over’ Thousands of students across the US have been walking out of their schools to protest ICE in their communities

for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI.

one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.

The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...

By Julianne Le

As law enforcement use any pretext to criminalize, harass, and enact violence especially against Black and brown people, people with unmet mental health needs, and unhoused people, one way we can try and reduce and prevent such interaction is via building coordinated community crisis response teams:

Non-police alternatives to mental health crises are underfunded Aaron Rainey's fatal shooting by Philadelphia police in March has renewed calls for reliable non-police crisis and emergency response teams

Organizers have long been pushing for us to fund community-based crisis response teams—but they remain perpetually underfunded or defunded, while our cities pour more and more money into cops.

Family demands answers after South Florida mom fatally shot by Miami-Dade Sheriff's deputy: "This is insane" Relatives are questioning the use of deadly force after deputies responded to a mental health crisis call, as state officials launch an investigation.

Miami police shot and killed a woman experiencing a mental health crisis this weekend after her 12-year-old daughter called for help.

No mental health crisis should turn deadly by those called to help. Our hearts are with the family as they await answers.

Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵:

-The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc

Google Handed ICE Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.

Alarming new revelations about ICE's use of administrative subpoenas to get information about people the administration wanted to detain and deport because of their protests against government policies. theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

Training Series: Power in Solidarity Movements don’t win by chance; they win with skill, strategy, and solidarity. Join the Solidarity Organizing Initiative for a dynamic four part skill training, 'Power in Solidarity,' where we’ll learn...

Monday, February 16, at 7:00 pm ET for the launch of Power in Solidarity — a four-part, skill-building training series designed to help you organize effectively, take meaningful action, and build lasting power for immigrant justice. actionnetwork.org/events/train...

How Minnesota’s Queer-Owned Businesses Are Leading the Fight Against ICE As the federal occupation continues, community members are committing themselves to standing up to the feds while supporting the state’s immigrant communities in any way possible.

for @autostraddle.bsky.social, i wrote about how minnesota's queer-owned businesses (and queer folks in general) are standing up to ICE and defending their communities:

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

Cook County prosecutors drop charges against 19 arrested during clergy-led protest at Broadview ICE facility

Prosecutors have dropped charges against nearly two dozen people arrested during a clergy-led protest outside the Broadview ICE facility last fall.

Hell yes. Protest the hell out of Eloy. The place broke me and I wasn't even detained there, just visiting my clients

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho

ICE sacked some tiny Idaho town and deported ~4 percent of the population at a stroke, it's liable to collapse the local economy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...