Thread by @JossTGreene

Hey #AcademicTwitter, if you're teaching about the criminal justice system this fall and want to teach about community organizing and resistance, there are some GREAT websites full of resources! A thread 🧵 (1)

About #DefundThePolice. Includes budgeting tools ppl can use for campaigns, model legislation, organizing resources, and videos from organizers. (2)

defundpolice.org

About challenging surveillance. Includes a report, description of multiple key data systems, and a quiz you can take to learn about how your own personal information is stored or might be accessed. (3)

abolishdatacrim.org/en

About criminalization. Interrupting Criminalization (@interruptcrim), an initiative led by Mariame Kaba (@prisonculture) and Andrea Ritchie (@dreanyc123), features reports, worksheets, zines, and curriculum. (4)

interruptingcriminalization.com

About courts. Includes a breakdown of how criminal courts work, info about limits to commonly proposed reforms, and tools for abolitionist alternatives. (5)

beyondcourts.org/en/act

And definitely check out Transform Harm, a hub full of accessible resources about transformative justice, community accountability, restorative justice, healing justice, abolition, and carceral feminism. (6)

transformharm.org

I use materials from these sites every semester. Students love the accessible analysis and the information about activism unfolding around us.

If there's a resource hub that you use to teach about criminal punishment and resistance, please share it here! (7)