To learn how YOU can help interrupt the ICE machine, check out our toolkit (updated MONTHLY!):

Young artists affected by criminalization, policing, & punishment are welcome to apply for a grant for their art project! Deadline THIS FRIDAY.

ICE has no place at the World Cup! No ICE in the Cup is a national call to action demanding the World Cup remain joyful, safe and secure for all to enjoy. Check it out here: www.noiceinthecup.us

THIS SATURDAY in Brooklyn! See our cofounder Mariame Kaba explore how to talk with children about incarceration. Things I Wish I’d Said to My Children, 1pm, is for formerly incarcerated parents and caregivers. Register here: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/thi...

We offer a Transformative Justice Help Desk consultation service for our partners working on projects & community-wide interventions to respond to, transform & interrupt harm & violence without the state. More info here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/transformati...

On June 13, @nycplan.org is hosting a Library Propaganda Fair! Would you like to share your library related art and propaganda with other New Yorkers? Our tabling application is open: forms.gle/8yyADQGqV7jn... - We invite tablers to sell items AND also to share free items with the public.

The systems are Flock (license plates) and BriefCam, an AI-powered surveillance created in Israel. BriefCam will allow officers to identify and respond to potential drug use in the Cook County jail “by alerting staff based on activity the software identifies from live video streams in real time.”

If you are a health care worker looking to interrupt criminalization, check out our Beyond Do No Harm network:

We have extended this application deadline to Friday! Please share with young artists who have been affected by criminalization/policing/punishment; they could get $2,500 to work on an art project!

Writers, editors, journalists, comms people, etc. are all welcome to register for this online discussion happening June 2! • What is the effect of surveillance and criminalization on our work as media makers? • What is our responsibility as media makers to criminalized communities?

The deadline to apply for this grant has been extended to Friday May 15th! Please spread the word to young artists who have been impacted by criminalization.

To learn how YOU can interrupt the ICE machine, check out our toolkit:

A do-it-yourself guide to learning community defense skills with which you can protect your neighbors from ICE and other federal mercenaries. crimethinc.com/StopICETactics

💥 Looks like #DignityNotDetention is going to pass, ending ICE contracts with county jails in New York State—a HUGE win! More TK, including implementation. Meanwhile, if you're in NYC and want to get involved, attend our orientation May 12 at @envfreefund.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

If you know people in NYC, can you please help us to spread the word that Black Zine Fair is on Saturday and that they should register to come? pools.events/event/WFzHwJ... - It's free but donations are always appreciated. We have 4 days to let folks know about it.

All you have to do to understand the actual purpose of prisons in this country is to look at the aftermath of Jan 6. I will leave it there.

Anyway, get to ground. It's always my *advice* [when I offer any]. Get hyper local. Find your people and fight where you are. This is where you can make the most impact and a real difference. Do this as much as you can, take care of yourself, and take care of your people.

If you are NYC-based and you want to join with other New Yorkers who are fighting for our public libraries, you are welcome to attend our next monthly meeting on May 17 at 1:30 pm. It's in person. Email [email protected]

The deadline to apply for this grant has been extended to Friday May 15th! Please spread the word to young artists who have been impacted by criminalization.

THIS SUNDAY at The Warehouse exhibit inside Bedford Library in Brooklyn! Author Willie Kearse & cartoonist Ben Passmore discuss incarceration, revolt, memory keepers, & storytelling through writing & comics in a conversation moderated by Evelyn Perez. FREE!

Young artists could get $2500 to create a project. Please spread the word; deadline Monday!

Prisons are deathmaking institutions, & solitary confinement is torture.

Video shows advocates thwarting ICE arrest in Columbia County www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...

As I said with my concert song today, you can see how quickly folks can move things when wanting to hold onto/gain power, usually at the cost for someone else, compared to doing things to help all folks or those lower in status.

The violence & intimidation of ICE has no place near the World Cup! #NoICE Check out this national call to action #NoICEinTheCup:

I really encourage everyone who is fixated on the pipe dream of prosecuting ICE agents or whatever “when all this is over” to learn more about #ReparationsWON & the imagination & skillful organizing that went into winning something that actually supports survivors, their families & communities.

Today is the 11th anniversary of Chicago Torture Justice Memorials’ historic #ReparationsWON. This effort was co-organized by our cofounder Mariame Kaba, and serves as a model for what justice for survivors of state violence can look like beyond apologies and the illusions of police prosecutions:

If you are a medical worker looking to interrupt systems of criminalization, check out our Beyond Do No Harm network:

On May 16, there are two events at The Warehouse exhibit at the Bedford Library in Brooklyn, both featuring our cofounder Mariame Kaba. The first is a workshop for formerly incarcerated parents called Things I Wish I’d Said To My Children, 1-2:30pm. (1/2)

⛓️‍💥 EPISODE 249! ⛓️‍💥 In today’s episode, we discuss an @interruptcrim.bsky.social zine titled “Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism – Volume 1: A Conversation with the YoNoFui Collective of Argentina” by @melaniebrazzell.bsky.social and @dreanyc123.bsky.social (in collaboration with YoNoFui).

it's been five months since the United States has admitted a refugee that is not a white South African

We need more young artists affected by policing/criminalization to apply for this grant. They could get up to $2500 to work on an art project! The deadline is Monday; please spread the word!

Our cofounder Mariame Kaba will be at the Black Zine Fair this Saturday in Brooklyn! May 9, 11 AM to 6 PM 100+ exhibitors, 10 workshops Masks required & provided Free & open to the public with RSVP here:

If you are a medical worker looking to interrupt systems of criminalization, check out our Beyond Do No Harm network:

TONIGHT! Click here to register: www.eventbrite.com/e/we-know-it...

To learn ways you can interrupt the deathmaking ICE machine, see our (newly updated!) toolkit:

Gathering tomorrow May 5th at 5:30pm at 16th and H NW in DC to hear from folks who have survived the camps, mark each person currently held and demand freedom and justice.

Every time a new exposé of police sexual violence comes out people act like it’s a new issue or a “breaking story” - it’s not. Decades of research in the report below & multiple ways you can take action whether you are working on police violence or sexual assault in the accompanying toolkit.

"I do think the term ‘Christofascist’ is appropriate theologically as well as politically...What we’re seeing...is the attempt to use religion and Christian nationalism to erode a scientifically based social contract..." - Rev. Dr. Gary Gunderson

Please help us spread the word to young people affected by criminalization/policing/incarceration! They could get up to $2500 to work on their art! Click here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/stevie-wilso...

To learn how you can help disrupt the ICE machine, see our toolkit—updated monthly! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it

Also before anyone says to just vote blue about it please do read thru this lawsuit and do compare relevant dates against who was president at the time "Since at least 2014, MVM has had the exclusive contract with ICE to transport “unaccompanied minors,” i.e., “UACs,” from DHS custody to ORR."

Black Zine Fair is the space that I wish I had when I was a very young person who started making zines. It's a space that did not exist before we decided to make it. To me, this is true about everything we need in the world. If you don't see what you want, MAKE IT with others.

Check out our toolkit about ways YOU can help disrupt the ICE machine!

NEW: Chicago keeps having to exonerate people after wrongly convicting and incarcerating them. But when they then try to get a court certificate attesting to their exoneration, to help them with housing & jobs, prosecutors are fighting them. This is due to new policies of Chicago prosecutor:

BREAKING: Activists have shut down multiple intersections throughout downtown Washington DC in opposition to Trump's attacks on workers, DC Home Rule, climate, and international peace. The actions kick off #MayDay events across the country.

“Get up, get down, DC is a union town”