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Interrupting Criminalization
@interruptcrim.bsky.social
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Offering research, connection, learning, and practice for organizers and movements working to end criminalization, policing, and punishment. Founded and led by Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba.

Learn more at http://interruptingcriminalization.com/
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 4d
New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.

A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.

Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
Artwork by Monica Trinidad, featuring illustrated tan-colored text on a purple background: “Block It! Don't Build It. Don't Fill It. Don't Fuel It. How are YOU disrupting the ICE kidnapping, detention, & deportation machine?" In the middle are three rows of drawings in orange, tan, and black, depicting: a protest in front of a construction vehicle, transport vans and three Avelo Airlines planes, and hands holding and ripping apart money and a paper with "Palantir" on it.
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lyndab08.bsky.social
A Mini Toolkit to Take Action to Disrupt the ICE Kidnapping, Detention, and Deportation Machine via @interruptcrim.bsky.social
Block It! — Interrupting Criminalization
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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octoberk.bsky.social
i think it would be great if more people read this annotated indictment of the RICO case against folks involved with Stop Cop City created by @interruptcrim.bsky.social , just for a sense of how the state treats opposition in this country
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An Annotated Version of the Indictment Filed Against #StopCopCity Organizers — Interrupting Criminalization
An annotated version of the indictment filed against #StopCopCity organizers, featuring critical information and context, questions for discussion, and more.
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
interruptcrim.bsky.social
New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.

A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.

Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
Artwork by Monica Trinidad, featuring illustrated tan-colored text on a purple background: “Block It! Don't Build It. Don't Fill It. Don't Fuel It. How are YOU disrupting the ICE kidnapping, detention, & deportation machine?" In the middle are three rows of drawings in orange, tan, and black, depicting: a protest in front of a construction vehicle, transport vans and three Avelo Airlines planes, and hands holding and ripping apart money and a paper with "Palantir" on it.
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
interruptcrim.bsky.social
🗓️Sunday, Nov. 30 at 4-6 PM ET: If you've been thinking about joining @prisonculture.bsky.social for this monthly drop-in space for people who are taking consistent community action, this Nov. 30 session is your last chance! Learn more and register:
Another World Is Possible Activist Drop In Space: November — Interrupting Criminalization
An informal accountability group or space for people who are and/or who want to take consistent community action and want to reflect with others, hosted by IC co-founder Mariame Kaba. (All times in…
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November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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dreanyc123.bsky.social
If you are looking for ways to disrupt the abduction detention & deportation machine check out the new mini-toolkit from @interruptcrim.bsky.social gathering opportunities for action from orgs like @detentionwatchnetwork.org @siembranc.bsky.social BAJI +
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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kwhitlock.bsky.social
Not to be missed.
interruptcrim.bsky.social Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 6d
If you want to learn more about how family policing and the systems that claim to protect children make them—and our communities—less safe, join our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, Erin Miles Cloud and Dorothy Roberts on Dec. 1 at 4 PM ET for this event, hosted by @haymarketbooks.org:
How to End Family Policing
Join us for a virtual book launch of How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that claim to protect children make them—and our…
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
I have good news that I was able to invite an incarcerated comrade to be an artist in residence @interruptcrim.bsky.social in 2026. I got a grant that allows me to do this and I am so happy about it. He's already making art and now he can do that while also contributing to his family on the outside.
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Tickets for this virtual event are $5 (or free for low/no-income participants)
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
interruptcrim.bsky.social
If you want to learn more about how family policing and the systems that claim to protect children make them—and our communities—less safe, join our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, Erin Miles Cloud and Dorothy Roberts on Dec. 1 at 4 PM ET for this event, hosted by @haymarketbooks.org:
How to End Family Policing
Join us for a virtual book launch of How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that claim to protect children make them—and our…
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
interruptcrim.bsky.social
🗓️Saturday, Nov. 22 at 2-3:30 PM ET: Join our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social and Neta Bomani for a virtual gathering to celebrate 5 years of Sojourners for Justice Press! Come through to reflect on past publications, learn about what's next, and discuss what things are inspiring SJP’s work:
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
interruptcrim.bsky.social
Two virtual events coming up featuring our co-founders:

🗓️Sunday, Nov. 30 at 4-6 PM ET: Another World is Possible Activist Drop-In Space, with @prisonculture.bsky.social

🗓️Monday, Dec. 1 at 4-5:30 PM ET: How to End Family Policing, featuring @dreanyc123.bsky.social

Info and links in this thread:
November 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
interruptcrim.bsky.social
This Saturday, Nov. 15 is our last day of Communiversity! If you're based in NYC, you can join our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social on Saturday for this session about radical Black women activists and theorists in the U.S. (1910-1960)👇
interruptcrim.bsky.social Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 15d
🗓️This Saturday, Nov. 15 at 1:30-4 PM ET in Brooklyn: Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social is facilitating a discussion circle focused on the contributions of radical Black women activists and theorists in the U.S. from 1910-1960. If you're in NYC and interested in joining, register now to join!
Communiversity Catalog: Black Radical Women in the U.S. 1910–1960: A Study and Discussion Circle — Interrupting Criminalization
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November 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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harmscommitted.com
"Solidarity is literally in LA's DNA."

"The goal: to weave a grassroots shield against ICE crackdowns and social services cuts and offer a model for how neighbors, not institutions, can bridge fear and isolation."
#California #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
In South LA, Black and Latino neighbors unite against ICE as systems fail
As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each other safe.
lapublicpress.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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djbyrnes1.bsky.social
New: Diana Santillana Galeano, whom federal immigration agents dragged out of a Rayito del Sol daycare on Chicago's north side last week, has been released from federal custody, the law firm HSPRD announced Thursday.

The release states she will meet with Rayito del Sol parents on Friday.
Image text: Diana Santillana Galeano released from ICE detention, will return to greet community Friday CHICAGO (Thursday, November 13, 2025)--Diana Santillana Galeano was released from ICE detention in Clay County, Indiana on Wednesday night. She had been taken by federal agents at the daycare center where she worked earlier this month. “We are thrilled that Ms. Santillana was released, and has been able to return home to Chicago where she belongs,” said attorney Charlie Wysong, who represents Santillana Galeano along with Ms. Naiara Testai at Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd. “We will continue to pursue her immigration claims to stay in the United States. We are grateful to her community for the outpouring of support over these difficult days, and ask that her privacy be respected while she rests and recovers from this ordeal.” Image text: “I am so grateful to everyone who has advocated on my behalf, and on behalf of the countless others who have experienced similar trauma over recent months in the Chicago area,” said Santillana Galeano. “I love our community and the children I teach, and I can’t wait to see them again.”
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.

Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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404media.co
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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notnotrocketscience.com
You may have seen that 600+ detainees are eligible for release, which is amazing! BUT: you may not know that immigration detainees still have to pay for their freedom-- $1500 bond per person! The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is raising money to help people get free, please donate: www.mibfc.org
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
www.mibfc.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Today, Oklahoma is set to execute Tremane Wood even though a state panel recommended his life is spared
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24d
Tremane Wood is currently on death row, despite his older brother admitting to killing victim Ronnie Wipf in 2002.

Next week, he will have the chance to make his case for mercy.

Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death anyway.
His Brother Admitted To A Murder. He Is Set To Be Executed For It.
Next week, Tremane Wood will have the chance to make his case for mercy. Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Join us at Communiversity on Saturday. It's our final set of sessions and I will be facilitating a conversation about radical Black women in the US. [early-mid 20th century]. There are 3 required readings but ok if you only get through 1 or 2. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversi...
Communiversity Catalog: Black Radical Women in the U.S. 1910–1960: A Study and Discussion Circle — Interrupting Criminalization
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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olibabba.bsky.social
So thrilled to FINALLY get copies of 'Let This Radicalize You' and 'Read This When Things Fall Apart'. One copy to pass around right away. One to read and then start passing! @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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meredithshiner.com
I’m going to think about watching this moment unfold in real time for a long time.

for all the horrors coming out of Chicago and its metro area, the principled courage of everyday people, in the face of such intimidation, never ceases to astonish. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/k...
Most of the hearing was routine. At one point, however, Straw's attorney, Christopher Parente, lodged a largely symbolic objection over his client having to turn in his passport, calling him a "boring suburban dad" and saying his whole reason for going to the protest in the first place included objecting to the government checking people's passports and papers. Parente said it wasn't fair for Straw "to sit here now and ask him to turn his passport over to the government for no reason other than they think they can," adding that "landscapers arrested by ICE cannot stand up to the government." "Mr. Straw can, and your Honor can, too," Parente said. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Mecklenburg said the passport was about bond conditions, not about what ICE is doing on the streets, and that defendants have turned in their passports "in every case I've had for 19 years." After McShain decided Straw did not have to turn in his passport, Mecklenburg said she'd drop the requirement for all defendants to ensure Straw was not receiving special treatment.
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me.

I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.

We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.

www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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dell.bsky.social
NEW: DHS secretly obtained Chicago police data on 900 residents accused of gang ties. It was quietly deleted after intelligence officers violated rules against domestic spying.

The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.
DHS Kept Chicago Police Records for Months in Violation of Domestic Espionage Rules
The Department of Homeland Security collected data on Chicago residents accused of gang ties to test if police files could feed an FBI watchlist. Months passed before anyone noticed it wasn’t deleted.
www.wired.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM