Resources

This is a new initiative launched in fall 2018 through the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) Social Justice Institute by Researchers-in-Residence Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba. The project aims to interrupt and end the the growing criminalization and incarceration of women and LGBTQ people of color for criminalized acts related to public order, poverty, child welfare, drug use, survival and self-defense, including criminalization and incarceration of survivors of violence.

Being stopped by police is a stressful experience that can go bad quickly. In any situation you can only control one thing—your own actions. Even when you do everything right, things can still go wrong. These tips can help you protect yourself. In collaboration with Samaria Rice, Tamir’s mother, the ACLU of Ohio has produced the Tamir Rice Safety Handbook to help youth navigate interactions with law enforcement.

Community Justice Exchange partnered with Project NIA, Court Watch MA, Families for Justice as Healing, and Survived and Punished NY to produce a document that outlines abolitionist principles, as well as strategies and tactics, for organizing campaigns targeted at prosecutors. The principles came out of a prosecutor accountability convening hosted in June 2019 and they were created to provide a framework for what organizing around prosecutors might look like with an abolitionist lens. They are intended to foster alignment and inter-movement accountability for groups and individuals committed to abolition as a political vision and a practical strategy for organizing.

In response to the Amazon Web Services music festival, a coalition of musicians and bands put together a resource of reports and articles around Amazon’s collaboration with ICE and law enforcement.

After a decade of organizing, three Safe OUTside the System (SOS) Coordinators co-wrote this piece to share the lessons learned over the years. We also asked SOS members from the past 10 years about their reflections on our successes, struggles and our hopes for the future. We write these lessons for all the people seeking to address violence and envision safer communities.

This resource is a compilation of case-studies on alternatives to cops. The booklet focuses on projects that don’t collaborate with the state or court system in any way. A long bibliography for further reading is also included.

A collection of questions and resources to assist individuals in addressing situations without immediate reliance on police.

Your neighbor is setting off fireworks at 3am, or there’s intimate partner violence happening outside your window, or you see someone hit their child in public…What do you do? What do you do instead of calling the police? How do you keep yourself safe without seeking protection from a system that is predicated upon the surveillance and extermination of others? This is an in-progress list of resources on alternatives to policing, which range from the theoretical to the practical.

In this comprehensive repository, you will find interactive workshop ideas, reading lists, links to videos, short yet impactful infographics and one-pagers — all to help you build your arsenal against school push out.