Resources

Tips for conflict resolution, crisis intervention, and keeping your and other communities safe without the police!

Learn more about how law enforcement violence is both raced and gendered and how to organize for safety in our communities with this fold-up poster from INCITE!

Intended for use by individuals, classrooms, book clubs, and organizations, the Invisible No More Study and Discussion Guide breaks down key concepts and offers reflection questions, exercises, and self-care tips designed to make Invisible No More more accessible to students, activists, and readers of all kinds!

This report calls for an expansion of messaging and responses to more explicitly center the experiences of Black women, girls, trans and gender nonconforming people. It also calls on contemporary anti-violence movements to expand the current focus on sexual violence by politicians, in the entertainment industry and in the workplace to include settings in which Black women, girls, trans and gender nonconforming people’s experiences of sexual violence remain largely shrouded in silence, including schools, foster care systems, police interactions, and prisons.

. Under the banner “Free the City, Heal the City,” Chicago’s cross-sectoral and intergenerational organizing community is calling on the new city leadership to adopt a whole new politic – one that conclusively rejects privatization of public goods, disinvestment from low-income communities and communities of color, and reliance on policing and criminalization as the primary response to social problems and substitute for social services and social goods. There is much we can learn from Chicago’s journey to this moment and the visions for the city that are emerging during this transition.

A policy brief written by Andrea J. Ritchie and Monique W. Morris, Ed.D., that highlights the need to provide sanctuary and build toward freedom by challenging and eliminating immigration enforcement and policing practices that cause harm to Black women, as well as create conditions that will ensure safety from interpersonal and intra-communal violence for Black women, girls, gender nonconforming people and fem(me)s.

According to the FBI’s hate crime statistics, almost 20 percent of all hate crime victims in 2015 were targeted because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender. This report documents the findings of the Forum on Gender, Sexuality, and 21st Century Policing and puts for policy recommendations for improving safety and support for the LGBTQ+ community.

This toolkit is a starting place for the Freedom Cities movement to collectively answer the question: As we demand an end to the municipal policies and practices that harm us, what vision are we offering in its place that unites and builds the leadership of all marginalized communities?

A collection of resources from Critical Resistance’s workshop on policing abolition. The goal of this workshop is to give participants an understanding and historical overview of policing in the US, and to provide abolitionist ways to resist and not rely on the cops in a range of situations.