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It's the last day of International Zine Month. Check out this @truthout.org podcast (transcript available too) with host @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, IC cofounder @prisonculture.bsky.social, and writer/organizer Red Schulte talking zines!
Making Things Together: Zines, Strategy, and Survival“We’re going to need a lot more in-person opportunities for us to expand our humanity,” says organizer Mariame Kaba.truthout.orgInternational Zine Month's not over yet! Check out zines from our One Million Experiments project:
Read the Zine: One Million ExperimentsRead the Zine from One Million Experiments, where we explore community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe.millionexperiments.comIf federal agents come to your door: 1. Do NOT talk to them without an attorney there! 2. Do NOT let them in without a proper warrant! 3. Call the @nlg.org hotline for a privileged conversation with an attorney: (212) 679-5100 For more on this topic, check out @ccrjustice.org's guide:
If An Agent Knocks (resource)Updated in 2020! The Center for Constitutional Rights created If An Agent Knocks to provide advice to activists likely to be targeted by FBI agents or other federal investigators.bit.lyA former warden argued against the death penalty, not out of humanity, but to advocate for "sweat equity," saying a defendant "is young, he is healthy, and [the] reality, we need that labor, we need that sweat equity, and we will put him out there to work."
Julio Foolio, Unions and “Sweat Equity”How incarceration and labor are bound together.inthesetimes.comNatural Helpers is a leadership development & education program that supports community members in learning about human trafficking, domestic & sexual violence, the societal forces that create conditions for violence, how to respond to harm & injustice, & how to support survivors. Read more here:
Natural HelpersWith the long-term vision of creating a world that better supports survivors, API Chaya's Natural Helpers program is a leadership development and education program that supports community members in l...millionexperiments.com"We wanted to increase the amount of food growing space in our neighborhood, but we were also invested in accessibility and community building in the process." Read more about the Rogers Park Yard Sharing Network at IC's One Million Experiments:
Rogers Park Yard SharingThe Rogers Park Yard Sharing Network started in 2011 as a project of a small non-profit called LETS GO Chicago that focused on local solutions to environmental, social and economic issues in our world...millionexperiments.comAs we come near the end of International Zine Month, you should know that many IC resources come in zine form. Check out our zines on abolitionist organizing, community safety and care, and ways YOU can challenge criminalization: bit.ly/ICzines
This was predicted by the organizers opposing these school closures. Some people even went on hunger strikes. Well-funded schools are one of the things that keep communities safe — NOT police!
Chicago TribuneA study from the University of Chicago said 2013 Chicago Public Schools closures led to a near 10% increase in gun violence in nearby neighborhoods.
Abolish the death penalty, abolish prisons. To learn how you can most effectively help resist right-wing, authoritarian, and fascist agendas, check out our resource for considering whether you’re best positioned to block, blunt, break, bridge, or build:
Block & Build — Interrupting CriminalizationInspired by “Block & Build” sheets circulating, Interrupting Criminalization offers an abolitionist take on strategic frameworks for fighting Right-wing, authoritarian, and fascist agendas a...www.interruptingcriminalization.comLiliana SeguraFlorida, where executions are out of control, plans to kill two men today, the first at noon, the second at 6pm. By @edpilkington.bsky.social, who has covered state killing for years.
To learn ways you can interrupt the ICE machine, check out our toolkit! It's updated frequently!
Block It! — Interrupting Criminalizationwww.interruptingcriminalization.comAustin Kocher, PhD65,765 people were in ICE detention as of July 11, in ICE's first data since April. Arrests hit a record 1,474 a day, and the largest group in custody has no criminal history at all. Full edition: austinkocher.substack.com/p/this-week-...
"Criminalization happens through policing, prosecution, & imprisonment, but also through...the context of of distribution of care, benefits, opportunities, & necessities of survival." - @dreanyc123.bsky.social
Justin WolfersLaser focused on reducing the cost of living, from day one.
Policing & exclusion (e.g., who can use bathrooms) are part of criminalization. Criminalization normalizes certain levels of denial of care & necessities to targeted groups (e.g., bathrooms).
tamara nopperPublic bathrooms, once common, are difficult to find now because of the history of segregation against African Americans as well as the targeting of LGBT individuals. now.temple.edu/news/2022-09...
July is International Zine Month! Here are some zines for you from Project NIA, IC cofounder Mariame Kaba's former organization focused on ending youth incarceration:
projectnia Publisher Publications - IssuuLaunched in 2009, Project NIA is an advocacy, organizing, popular education, research, and capacity-building center with the long-term goal of ending youth incarceration. We believe that several simul...issuu.comPlease click here to learn ways you can interrupt the ICE machine: bit.ly/ICblockit
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of children, sponsors arrested by ICE after tips from US child migrant agencyMore than 12,000 people have been arrested by U.S. immigration authorities following tips from the Office of Refugee Resettlement during President Donald Trump’s second term.www.reuters.comThere's still time to join the last 2 sessions of the Queer (In)Justice reading group! Register today! bit.ly/IC-QIJ
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian & Syrian immigrants expired today, following a SCOTUS decision in late June clearing the way to end these deportation protections. Read this FAQ on TPS from Muslims for Just Futures: static1.squarespace.com/static/62f6e...
Corporate profits and criminalization of marginalized groups of people are part of the same system. Check out our resource on the copaganda of shoplifting:
Shoplifting: Corporate Copaganda — Interrupting CriminalizationA resource on how claims of a “shoplifting surge” by corporations and the media is copaganda, Read about the rise of private security and why it is essential that we strip the power of corporations to...www.interruptingcriminalization.comChicago TribuneLiving through the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century has many Americans changing their eating and food shopping habits.
To learn ways you can interrupt the white supremacist ICE machine, see our toolkit, which is updated regularly:
Block It! — Interrupting Criminalizationwww.interruptingcriminalization.comKat TenbargeI am very ashamed to live in a country where people will wake up with the terror that the secret police are coming to kidnap them, separate them from their families, and brutalize or even kill them because they are not white.
Which strategic approach(es) to working for abolition are you best positioned to move forward in this moment—blocking, blunting, breaking, bridging or building? Where might you have power, influence, & opportunities to act to move that strategy forward? Read our guide 👇🏾
Block & Build — Interrupting CriminalizationInspired by “Block & Build” sheets circulating, Interrupting Criminalization offers an abolitionist take on strategic frameworks for fighting Right-wing, authoritarian, and fascist agendas a...www.interruptingcriminalization.comPrison Policy Initiative🚨NEW: Pres. Trump's belligerent use of policing and prosecutions has already left its mark on the federal system. Over the last two years, federal incarceration and detention have grown by 12%, with immigration detention and prosecution being a main driver. 🧵
July is Int'l Zine Month, a great time to pick up this zine by IC cofounder @prisonculture.bsky.social from @haymarketbooks.org! Black Study is about the enduring legacy of David Walker’s An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829), a pamphlet calling for Black resistance & liberation.
Black Studywww.haymarketbooks.org