Abolition Requires Disability Justice
The following article is a sample from Issue 33 of The Abolitionist which features pieces on the COVID-19 pandemic and introduces the newspaper’s new structure, including a section of new,…
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Our Communities, Our Solutions: An Organizer’s Toolkit for Developing Campaigns to Abolish Policing
How do we abolish policing? As demands to defund the police become more and more popular, how do we ensure these calls further on-the-ground work toward a vision of prison…
LA The Fire this Time: Uprising & Repression in LA
An Interview by CovertAction with Mike Davis, Summer 1992 Uprising-and-Repression-in-LA-Mike-DavisDownload…
Problems with Community Control of Police & Proposals for Alternatives
Organizing resource by members, community advisors, and friends of Critical Resistance: Beth Ritchie, Dylan Rodriguez, Mariame Kaba, Rachel Herzing, Melissa Burch and Shana Agid. Problems_w_CRBs_and_Proposals_for_AlternativesDownload…
STOP: The StoryTelling & Organizing Project
STOP is a community project collecting and sharing stories about everyday people taking action to end interpersonal violence. The site includes sample audio stories with transcripts, video clips of community…
Transformative Justice: A Curriculum Guide by Project Nia
A curriculum designed to raise public awareness about transformative justice and to think critically about the prison industrial complex. Includes overview documents and activities with facilitation guides. Project Nia TJ…
Strategies for Cultivating Community Accountability by Ann Russo
A piece outlining practical strategies for supporting community accountability efforts based on work done through the Building Communities, Ending Violence project at DePaul University in Chicago. Read “Strategies for Cultivating…
Queer Transformative Justice Working Group’s Principles, Concerns, Strategies, Models
A piece by Queer Transformative Justice Working Group in Chicago that outlines four core principles to which a community can be accountable around issues of harm and violence. TJ PrinciplesDownload…
Harm Free Zone Project General Framework by New York Harm Free Zone Collective
This document outlines basic principles and practices used to imagine building community-based harm free zones in New York City. HFZ-NYDownload Learn more about Critical Resistance’s work in New York with…
Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence
This collection encapsulates a decade of local and national initiatives led by or inspired by allied social movements that reflect the complexities of integrating the theory and practice of community accountability.…