One week away! Register for what will be a very powerful event celebrating a decade of Survived & Punished, a national coalition of prison abolitionists organizing defense campaigns for people criminalized for surviving domestic or sexual violence.
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In the second part of a two-part conversation, Kelly Hayes and guest Tanuja Jagernauth discuss why conflict transformation can be so difficult, what happens when efforts at repair break down, and why conflict resolution skills are survival skills in fascist times.
that inspired present & future abolitionist movements. Black Study traces this history alongside archival photos of Black people reading & learning across generations.
Black Study release event Sunday April 26, The Free Black Women's Library 226 Marcus Garvey Blvd, Brooklyn NY, from 3-5 pm
THIS SUNDAY IN NYC: Black Study Release Event!
🗓️ April 26
📍 226 Marcus Garvey Blvd, Brooklyn
🕰️ 3-5pm
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In 1829, David Walker published An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, a pamphlet calling for insurrection among enslaved Black people...
❇️Applications are open today for the Stevie Wilson DIY Young Artists Residency!
🎨Artists aged 16-24 directly impacted by criminalization, policing, &/or punishment are eligible for $2,500 to work on creative projects.
🖊️Applications due May 11.
➡️Please help us spread the word!
Amendment: No prisons at all.
This project was named after Stevie Wilson, a Black, queer, formerly incarcerated abolitionist who writes about identity, belonging, freedom, & community.
2026 Stevie Wilson DIY Young Artists Residency Design your own creative residency get $2500 to work on a creative idea or project applications due May 11
Young artists aged 16-24 who have been directly impacted by criminalization/policing/punishment can apply for this residency & get $2500 to work on a creative project! Visit bit.ly/diyresidency26 to learn more. Please help us spread the word!
NEW YORK CITY: May 4th, join archivists, activists, and scholars for an evening of study & strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses. Featuring our own Mariame Kaba. Register here ⬇️
The terrific @prismreports.org wrote about The Warehouse!
If you're in NYC, check out this free exhibit through June 27.
The latest edition of our monthly criminalization roundup newsletter is out! We invite you to read it over and pick a few actions to take now, next week, and beyond! Check out
current news on criminalization, & how to: (1/3)
"Prisons are deathmaking institutions." — our cofounder @prisonculture.bsky.social.
NYC! Come celebrate all things Black & independent publishing on Saturday, May 9! Black exhibitors & educators can gather, trade or sell zines, & exchange knowledge surrounding zine-making, publishing, & DIY culture. For more info, click the link:
If ICE agents were prosecuted for every extrajudicial threat, assault, and murder, the courts would be flooded for years.
But let's not let this single arrest warrant rehabilitate a "justice" system that chiefly serves to terrorize, abduct, and imprison people.
The solution is to abolish ICE.
🔎 Take steps to protect yourself from mounting surveillance & criminalization of dissent
☮️ Organize against war, occupation, & militarization across the globe
✊ Show solidarity with the Prairieland political prisoners
⛓️💥 Fight back against ICE’s warehouse campaign & surveillance expansion (2/3)
The latest edition of our monthly criminalization roundup newsletter is out! We invite you to read it over and pick a few actions to take now, next week, and beyond! Check out
current news on criminalization, & how to: (1/3)
The terrific @prismreports.org wrote about The Warehouse!
If you're in NYC, check out this free exhibit through June 27.
"Featuring more than two dozen large-scale paintings, the exhibition offers an intimate visual exploration of life inside U.S. prisons while encouraging visitors to reflect on alternative approaches to safety, care and accountability beyond punishment plus incarceration."
NEW YORK CITY: May 4th, join archivists, activists, and scholars for an evening of study & strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses. Featuring our own Mariame Kaba. Register here ⬇️
Yes! #FreeThemAll
Purchase it here with the promo code CUP20 for 20% off!📚 cup.columbia.edu/book/solidar...
We are thrilled that now Stevie Wilson is free, & will serve as one of the judges of applicants for this residency!
The country's descent into fascism cannot be understood without interrogating U.S. policing. But folks across the political spectrum are allergic to this so here we are.
❇️Applications are open today for the Stevie Wilson DIY Young Artists Residency!
🎨Artists aged 16-24 directly impacted by criminalization, policing, &/or punishment are eligible for $2,500 to work on creative projects.
🖊️Applications due May 11.
➡️Please help us spread the word!
What to Know: Race of Victim Effect and the Death Penalty #deathpenalty deathpenaltyinfo.org/what-to-know...