NYC friends! We just had *two* (2) spots open up for our Theatre of the Oppressed Starter Kit workshop happening tomorrow, Sept. 20 11AM-2:30PM. This hands-on session will also include “train-the-trainer” time! Learn more and sign up: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversi...

Last day to sign up for tomorrow's (9/20) Communiversity offerings. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversi... - the sessions are good and there's lunch.

NYC-based folks: a reminder that we have spots available in some of our anti-criminalization Communiversity workshops that are kicking off this Saturday, Sept. 20, as well as next Saturday, Sept. 27. We’ll list them below ⬇️ Learn more and check out the offerings here:

Find Beyond Do No Harm’s 13 Principles and other resources here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/beyond-do-no...

In our latest, @dreanyc123.bsky.social returns to discuss how healthcare workers can resist ICE and refuse to participate in criminalizing the people the care for, and the resources available from Beyond Do No Harm www.patreon.com/posts/138979...

"No pasarán!" Check out this collection of resources from @interruptcrim.bsky.social on keeping ICE out of schools. 🚌🍎📚 buff.ly/C36wrwb

Our One Million Experiments podcast released a shortened season this summer. I recommend listening to the 4 episodes if you are interested in how people have created community-based crisis response projects since 2020: millionexperiments.com/podcast/seas...

If you are looking for support or to join with others in doing so please reach out www.interruptingcriminalization.com/health-care-...

If we are going to have any chance of preserving healthcare for trans people, reproductive care or frankly any kinds of care the regime wants to eliminate providers & institutions are going to have to band together to vigorously fight civil subpoenas & vague threats of criminalization at every turn

I have been BEGGING providers & institutions targeted by these subpoenas FOR MONTHS to share info & collaborate on a collective defense & advocacy groups to strongly encourage & support them in doing do. That didn’t happen & instead institutions are just going offline citing “legal environment”

Poor people in the United States are a primary target for policing, especially those forced to live on the streets. Data shows that more than 40% of unhoused people booked into jail were booked again within the year.

People in a New York prison’s mental health unit are kept in their cells 24 hours a day, with the exception of an occasional “callout,” and denied therapeutic services, according to a lawsuit filed this week.

Thinking about the phrase "political violence" and the number of people who've died on Rikers Island in just the last month.

After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE

Elected Democrats in Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, & Rhode Island, the DNC national headquarters, and 6 HBCU's have all been targeted by bomb threats today

Not a knock on Will at all, but on the quote: Here's the thing. We ARE seeing footage of children dying. Graphic footage. We've been seeing it on a nearly daily basis since October 7 in Palestine. Nothing is happening. Just more dead children.

There were more than 120 domestic terrorist attacks, in which there were 11 murders, in the United States during the “relative calm” of the 1980s and 1990s. They just all happened to be at abortion clinics, so I guess those don’t count.

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"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators

I really just think it's class and racial solidarity at work. They see themselves in him and they do not have solidarity with his targets.

It’s not considered political violence to round up people and put them in concentration camps. It’s not considered political violence to fund ethnic cleansing and genocide. Very interesting what’s considered political violence and deemed unacceptable.

It’s not considered political violence to dehumanize people until they’re so ostracized by society that they take their own lives. It’s not considered political violence to make policy choices to intentionally kill people by depriving them of life saving healthcare.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

also on the subject of political violence

all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.

The vague term "political violence" is used specifically bc of its elasticity. It can be contorted to include a murder (despite the motive and perpetrator being unknown), property damage (committed for life-preserving reasons), or protesters using signs as shields when they are attacked by police.

More than 50,000 Palestinians have been left homeless in less than a week due to “large-scale destruction” caused by Israeli attacks across Gaza City, according to Gaza’s Civil Defence. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/eb39up

A former Israeli army commander, Herzi Halevi, has confirmed that more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured in the war in Gaza, and that “not once” have military operations been inhibited by legal advice - via @julianborger.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

Happening now: it's a tense scene at the Broadview ICE processing facility outside Chicago this morning where a large protest is planned. ICE operations continue to ramp up across the city and burbs. Ten Chicago SRT agents out here with pepper ball dispensers, one long gun.

At least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via @wwno.org

Wapo article does a good job covering two realities: How deeply watching a parents‘ immigration arrest affects kids, and how DC residents are organizing “walking buses” and neighborhood lookouts to help kids with immigrant parents get safely to school. wapo.st/3VNYZ08

American officials said the repeat drone strikes were carried out by Special Forces, and more attacks could come soon.

Israeli forces killed more than 70 people in Gaza on Wednesday and launched deadly attacks on Yemen.

NYC friends! We have some spots left for the Communiversity workshops that are happening this Saturday, Sept. 13. Sign up! In addition to this course on Abolition, Incarceration, and the Rule of Law, we’re offering An Intro to Healing Plants and Tincture Making, and Herbs and the Nervous System 👇

Want to learn more about Attica, the history of incarceration, organizing inside/outside the walls, and more? If you're in NYC, join us THIS Saturday and next (Sept. 13 & 20) in-person for our Communiversity course, "Abolition, Incarceration, and the Rule of Law." A few spots left! Sign up:

Last call for people who want to participate in Saturday's Communiversity sessions (two about herbalism and one about abolition & rule of law): www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/c... - registration will close tomorrow.

NYC friends! We have some spots left for the Communiversity workshops that are happening this Saturday, Sept. 13. Sign up! In addition to this course on Abolition, Incarceration, and the Rule of Law, we’re offering An Intro to Healing Plants and Tincture Making, and Herbs and the Nervous System 👇

NYC! Our Movements Are Only as Strong as Our People Join @nhannahjones.bsky.social, @mashagessen.bsky.social, and @paoramos.bsky.social for a conversation hosted by Dr. Carmen Rojas Monday, September 22nd at 7:00 pm @symphonyspace.bsky.social RSVP to attend for free:

CPE’s #FightingFascism series launches on September 10th! Our first session features a conversation between Rachel Herzing & Robin D.G. Kelley looking at how criminalization is fundamental to the fascist program: bit.ly/FightingFasc...

I'm feeling energized to bring these resources to the first PTO meeting of the year. I think that—particularly in this moment—public school PTOs have some important organizing potential, and resources like this seem like a great place to start.

A resource that aims to help you figure out what strategic approaches you're best positioned to move forward in this moment—blocking, blunting, breaking, bridging or building—and also invites us to expand our resistance beyond strategies that rely solely on the carceral state. ⬇️

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

Everything might *feel* terrible, but we absolutely have the power to create change in our own communities. That's what Radical Unlearning proposes, and demonstrates through contemporary stories of people changing their minds (and ways) against the odds. Order now! allgoodbooks.com/item/VdT28uS...

The protest march in Chicago - the second in only four days staged in opposition to the Trump admin's targeteting of Chicagoland for an immigration blitz - has stepped off from Congress Plaza and is heading north down Michigan Avenue. Hundreds of people have joined the march so far.

better things are possible!!!!

As abolitionists, we believe cops don’t belong in care. We will not call emergency services or law enforcement without your explicit request. Your experiences, choices, and desires for yourself will be respected. Read our latest blog, bit.ly/TransLifeline-Response-to-988-cuts

When someone is having a mental health crisis, please do not call the police. 1 in 4 people killed by police are, or are perceived to be, experiencing a mental health crisis. A person with unmet mental health needs is 16 times more likely to be killed by the police. Cops don’t keep us safe.

Join Project LETS on Sunday Sept 21st @ 1PM ET (10AM PST) for an online panel discussion on Abolitionist Care Work in Action!❤️‍🔥 Hear from our Peer Support Advocates on what non-pathologizing, holistic care work looks like — outside of carceral frameworks & systems. REGISTER: bit.ly/care-in-action 🌀