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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 1d

Taking place Oct. 28-29, this virtual convening is an opportunity for us to expand and deepen abolitionist organizing under current conditions.

➡️To join us, please complete the registration form by Oct. 15th. Space is limited—do not delay!

More information on our website here:

Abolition Means *All* Carceral Spaces — Interrupting Criminalization

Joins us for a two-day virtual convening focused on supporting abolitionist organizers and campaigns in expanding their focus to include spaces where disabled people are incarcerated beyond prisons, j...

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 20h

October 25th: We are offering 5 different workshops for young people ages 14-17, based in NYC. These are completely free and will take place in-person, 11 AM-4 PM ET (with a snack break).

If you are or know a young person, invite them to sign up! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversi...

Event flyer for Communiversity Youth Day, featuring a black line drawing of young people engaged in reading, discussing, and learning, highlighted yellow and on an orange background. Below on a yellow rectangle, black text with details about the event, and a QR code:

"free + open to youth 14-17. prizes. connect to community. joyful activism!

The workshops:
The Circle Keepers’ Whose Voice? Our Voice!
Bread Riot: How Food Connects To Power
From Barricades Into Flowers: Abolitionist Artmaking
Centering Authenticity, Connection, And Community
Intro To Zine Making: Independent Publication For Radical Self Expression, Connection, And Community

Prizes! Care space! Resource Block Party!

Saturday
10.25.25
11am-4pm

Youth ages 14 to 17, based in NYC, are invited to apply for these workshops. These workshops are NOT for adults. In order to attend sessions, young people will need to bring a signed waiver from a guardian or parent.

RSVP today! bit.ly/ic-youthday25"

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 21h

Want to build financial skills to navigate our capitalist hellscape? We're offering a workshop designed to provide you with tools/resources to be empowered and build lasting economic strength, facilitated by Veronica Olivares:

Money Moves that Matter: Build Your Power Through Financial Literacy

Communiversity Catalog: Money Moves that Matter: Build Your Power Through Financial Literacy — Interrupting Criminalization

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 21h

Want to gain a deeper understanding of how systems of oppression function and how we can come out from under them stronger? We're offering a storytelling, political education and skill-sharing workshop, facilitated by Kennedy Felder:

From Rosie’s to the Courtroom: Breaking Chains, Building Power

Communiversity Catalog: From Rosie’s to the Courtroom: Breaking Chains, Building Power — Interrupting Criminalization

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 21h

If you're in NYC, we have 3 Communiversity workshops this Saturday, Oct. 11th. In-person, sliding scale.

Want to learn how to raise money to support critical work, something that is very hard these days? Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social is facilitating a session on grassroots fundraising:

Communiversity Catalog: Grassroots Fundraising for Organizers — Interrupting Criminalization

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

I want to once again encourage everyone who can to take advantage of opportunities to gather with others in person. It's more important than ever. It was wonderful to be with folks today at Communiversity. We'll be back at it next Saturday. Join in if interested.

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 2d

Connect with your people offline. Take the chats to signal but also take your close relationships offline entirely. We need to be connected when they shut this all down.

What’s your organizing plan if things go dark? Where do you meet? Who picks up what work? How do we communicate?

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 3d

"Every activist should bookmark some of the resources @dreanyc123.bsky.social shares in this newsletter—including the 'antifa' executive order explainer from Muslims for Just Futures."

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MJF EO Analysis & Designation Threats Against The Left

MJF Statement and FAQ on Threats to Designate Domestic Groups on the Left as Terrorists Muslims for Just Futures expresses deep concern at the escalating rhetoric and actions by President Trump, right...

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 3d

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social: "If you are trying to get your head around recent policy developments, or searching for ideas about how to take action wherever you are, don’t miss ... This Month in Criminalization [@interruptcrim.bsky.social]."

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This Month in Criminalization — Interrupting Criminalization

The September edition of Interrupting Criminalization’s This Month in Criminalization newsletter shares critical information, calls to action, and resources related to the further consolidation of aut...

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 1d

LIVE NOW!

Join @biidaasamose.bsky.social for a conversation with Uahikea Maile about water as a catalyst for radical transformation, hosted w/ @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social

Stream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxWl...
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Haymarket Presents: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Theory of Water

Join us for the next event in the Haymarket Presents speakers series, as Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is joined by Uahikea Maile for a conversation on decolonial strategies that look to water as a…

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Morgan Elise J @morganelisej.thetriibe.com · 4d

Just witnessed Chicagoans following this undercover ICE vehicle (Black pick-up truck) heading south on Ashland honking their horns incessantly and alerting everyone that ICE was coming.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

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Chicago News @chicago.thesocial.news · 2d

Brighton Park Gas Station Worker Cheered After Giving Out Supplies To Protesters Tear-Gassed By Feds: ‘We Have To Be Human’

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Brighton Park Gas Station Worker Cheered After Giving Out Supplies To Protesters Tear-Gassed By Feds: 'We Have To Be Human'

Gas station employee Narendra Byrapuneni helped protesters who sought refuge in his Brighton Park store Saturday after they were hit with tear gas by federal agents near the site of fatal shooting by Border Patrol agents.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Fam, this is a challenging moment. We (as reporters) are trying to balance urgency of news & amplification of resistance narratives with not assisting in putting people in prison. It's tough for everyone right now with how fast videos go viral. There's a lot we are not sharing.

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 2d

Pro-tip: if you have video of you or others directly intervening to obstruct ICE or de-arrest someone, for god’s sake don’t post it on social media. Or at a minimum blur faces first. You’re just begging for federal charges.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 2d

And 2. The Fascism Barometer, a podcast and host of other resources about understanding and tracking the advances of fascism: www.fascismbarometer.org

The Fascism Barometer | Podcast and Learning Hub hosted by Ejeris Dixon

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 2d

I saw a post get ratioed earlier because it assumes that fascism only exists once state power is completely consolidated and I imagine a lot of people are dunking on it but I just want to share two recent resources:

1. This Movement Memos episode with Shane Burley: truthout.org/audio/how-to...

How to Fight Fascism in a Captured State

A union exists whenever a group of people work together to solve a problem they couldn’t alone, says Shane Burley.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 21h

This session is geared toward media, journalists, and movement communicators, but is open to all. And the resources we cover during the webinar will also be shared out publicly afterwards. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/f...

Fighting Copaganda Under Authoritarianism — Interrupting Criminalization

A discussion of how to advance narratives that undermine authoritarianism and increase solidarity, featuring Interrupting Criminalization's Andrea Ritchie, Abolition Journalism Fellow Lewis Raven Wall...

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 21h

This one-hour webinar will present some key questions and framing in some helpful resources that offer tools for anyone who wants to avoid reinforcing criminalizing narratives from the state that are fueling and manufacturing consent for the mounting authoritarianism and occupations we're seeing.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 21h

As we continue experiencing the rapid expansion of authoritarian, fascist violence and criminalization, how can media and organizers push back against criminalizing narratives? Join us on Oct. 15 for this discussion with @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @lewispants.bsky.social and @deanspade.bsky.social:

Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 6d

🗓️ Oct. 15 at 3-4 PM ET online: Please join us for a discussion of how to advance narratives that undermine authoritarianism and increase solidarity, featuring @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @lewispants.bsky.social, and @deanspade.bsky.social!

Register: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/f...

Event graphic for "Fighting Copaganda Under Authoritarianism: How to Advance Narratives That Undermine Authoritarianism & Increase Solidarity," taking place place on October 15, 3-4 PM ET, virtual, with Andrea J. Ritchie, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Dean Spade. The event information is in black text on a background of a collage of a thick red pain mark, tape, cutouts of a hand writing, an eye with electricity coming out of it, and a crossed-out mouth, as well as yellow and black scribbles.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2d

Liberals and Democrats will call for "funding local police" as a way to solve the problem of DHS/ ICE and no one will think about the fact that this is how we got here.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 2d

Being targeted for police violence constructs people as criminals. Cops beat someone and the news refers to the victim as a suspect.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 21h

Cops lie. Cops lie. Cops lie.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

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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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 1d

Claim: rioters attacked ICE
Truth: ICE rushed at unarmed protesters standing on a patch of grass

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

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.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

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