Interrupting Criminalization

Communiversity Catalog: Introduction to 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organizations — Interrupting Criminalization

Want to learn more about how to establish and build an organization to do rad work outside the carceral state? Join us for this Oct. 18 workshop (this was rescheduled from the original Oct. 4 date):

Introduction to 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organizations — facilitated by Rhonda Brown-Moore

Communiversity Catalog: Loving Yourself Beyond the Trauma — Interrupting Criminalization

Want to work on personal growth and empowerment, process your experiences, and cultivate resilience and connection in a supportive, safe space? Check out this Oct. 18 workshop:

Loving Yourself Beyond the Trauma: Building Emotional Resilience and Confidence — facilitated by Rev. Dr. Xenia Barnes

Communiversity Catalog: Rebellious Care: Centering Bodily Autonomy as a Practice of Care — Interrupting Criminalization

Want to learn how to better hold space and provide support for young people’s bodily autonomy and radical care in NYC? Check out this Oct. 18 workshop:

Rebellious Care: Centering Bodily Autonomy as a Practice of Care — facilitated by Rebellious Root

Anti-Criminalization Communiversity in NYC: August-November 2025 — Interrupting Criminalization Interrupting Criminalization and Women Building Up have partnered up to offer an anti-criminalization “Communiversity” series of workshops and classes, taking place in person in Brooklyn, starting mid...

We also have spots available for workshops that are happening next Saturday, Oct. 18, as part of our anti-criminalization Communiversity. These are in-person in NYC, sliding scale. Registration links in the thread ⬇️

Learn more and check out other courses we're offering through mid-November here:

Registration for these 3 in-person workshops happening this Saturday in NYC closes on Friday, so if you're interested, please register ASAP:

Books Are For Everyone: A Banned Books Week Reading List Banned Books Week—October 5th to 11th—is an annual celebration of the freedom to read, and the aspiration that books should be accessible to all. In recognition of Banned Books Week 2025, Haymarket is...

For #BannedBooksWeek, we’re highlighting the unjust censorship of political books which impacts countless incarcerated readers each year.

For every book purchased from this reading list, we will be sending a book to someone who is incarcerated.

Announcing the Winners of the 5th Annual Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize The prize honors the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated authors who are writing toward a more just world.

I'm honored to share the winners of the 5th Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize, given in memory of my sister. Both essays this year reflect on the stark, inherent violence of prison, and convey a key message for our time: Where there is injustice, there is resistance. truthout.org/articles/ann...

"One of the most insidious things about prison is that it tries to mute us. It can’t take our voices away, but it can make it harder for them to be heard...Amplifying our voices is empowering and powerful. And you can help by joining any number of advocacy efforts."

Screenshot of event webpage text: "Thursday, October 16th Still Loving, Still Fighting: LGBTQ+ Traditions of Resilience, Organizing, and Mutual Aid 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM Wyeth Ballroom Description: As we face roll backs in civil rights protections and health access, new pressures from anti-LGBTQ and anti-trans legislation, and increasing rates of violence and harassment, what can be learned from previous models for building community power? In this session our panelists reflect on their experiences with intersectional movements for liberation, survival, and visibility to draw out strategies that might help us shape responses to current struggles. Join us as we delve into stories from ACT UP and health justice, abolitionist organizing, LGBTQ+ communities in Latin America, and initiatives for trans justice to explore the lessons that live in our collective history of courage and resilience. Speakers: Kris Hayashi, ACLU Wilfred Labiosa, Waves Ahead Corp, CEO/President Andrea Ritchie, Interrupting Criminalization, Co-Founder Jose Demarco, Black and Brown Community Control of Health, Founder Priy Jindal, Mosaic Medical LGBTQ+ Program, Nurse Practitioner"

🗓️ Oct. 16 at 1 PM ET in Philadelphia: Our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social will be joining others on a panel at the CenterLink Leadership Summit, "Still Loving, Still Fighting: LGBTQ+ Traditions of Resilience, Organizing, and Mutual Aid."

Learn more and join: www.lgbtqcenters.org/CenterLink/S...

"We're going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe" How families are fighting to survive Trump's war on transgender kids

"We're going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe."

How families are fighting to survive Trump's war on transgender kids

In this case, ADF “cited several scholars to support its argument that conversion practices should once again be permitted. Two of those experts, however, told the Guardian that ADF had ‘profoundly’ misrepresented their research, which discussed the ‘psychological damage’ of conversion therapy.’”

Three Supreme Court Cases Targeting LGBTQ+ People See Movement This Week From sports to passports, these cases may determine the vitality of trans rights in the U.S. for generations to come.

Three SCOTUS cases saw movement this week targeting LGBTQ+ people: A conversation therapy case, a shadow-docket case on trans passports, and a sports ban that will determine equal protection for trans people.

Writer S. Baum details all of them in our latest.

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This has always been a extremely tiny screeching minority demanding that their bigotry dictate that no one else's children can learn of the existence of LGBTQ people.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.

At least 6 unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents since September: 2 have been released, while the status of the remaining 4 is unknown. But the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness is investigating reports of an additional 19 people disappeared.

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section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver. Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park. Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

#WarRavagedPortland

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

We’re enraged and heartbroken by the rising deaths in ICE custody. Huabing Xie, from China, died Sept 29 after being held at Imperial Regional Detention Facility. At least 20 people have died since Trump took office as he moves to triple ICE detention by the end of this year. #CommunitiesNotCages

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago (RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Israel’s “Safe Zones” in Gaza Offer No Safety. Many Can’t Afford to Flee Anyway. Displacement costs, which many call “the fees you pay to become homeless in the south,” have reached nearly $5,000.

In Gaza, another humanitarian crisis has emerged: the soaring displacement expenses — or, as many people in Gaza bitterly describe it, “The fees you pay to become homeless in the south.” Tents cost $1,000 and securing a patch of land to pitch it on can be almost as costly.

Report: US Spent Over $30B Backing Israel, Regional Wars in 2 Years of Genocide This is just the “tip of the iceberg,” Costs of War noted, as many other other transfers haven’t been disclosed.

The U.S. has spent over $30 billion supporting the Israeli military and conducting war across the Middle East over the first two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza — a genocide only made possible by the U.S.’s financial support, a new report concludes.

What’s happened in the West Bank since October 2023? Amid the genocide in Gaza, conditions have also been desperate for the region’s largest population of Palestinians

As Israel continues its genocide in Gaza, it has escalated its brutal violence in the Palestinian West Bank, launching nearly 7,500 raids since the start of 2025.

Israel’s campaign of military and settler violence in the West Bank is ethnic cleansing.

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Two years have passed since Israel launched its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

Here’s the scale of devastation by the numbers ⤵️

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