https://abolitionist.tools Abolitionist Toolbox Mon, 03 May 2021 19:09:49 +0000 https://abolitionist.tools en https://abolitionist.tools/Self-Accountability-Movement-Building Tue, 26 Jan 2021 02:04:16 +0000 Abolitionist Toolbox https://abolitionist.tools/Self-Accountability-Movement-Building <img width="2388" height="1688" width_o="2388" height_o="1688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18ed567a04c1f865533da01cb6ae41678073a935299ec531a73dce4445c00b9e/Self_Accountability_1.png" data-mid="96457561" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/18ed567a04c1f865533da01cb6ae41678073a935299ec531a73dce4445c00b9e/Self_Accountability_1.png" />Graphic Notes by Laura Chow Reeve / Radical Roadmaps Self-Accountability &amp; Movement Building with Shannon Perez-Darby Accountability is a human skill, not something that happens to bad people. How many times have movements been pulled apart not because of external forces but because of internal conflict and strife? So often we ask how others can be accountable without first looking internally and asking, "How have I been accountable?" Join us to explore the role self-accountability plays in building strong, sustainable movements. We'll discuss how self-accountability—that is accountability with and for ourselves—is essential in building accountable communities and the movements to sustain them. Shannon Perez-Darby is an anti-violence advocate, author, and activist working to create the conditions to support loving, equitable relationships and communities. With over 15 years of experience, Shannon centers queer and trans communities of color while working to address issues of domestic violence, accountability, and prison abolition. LINKS Graphic Notes Slide Deck Video https://abolitionist.tools/Restorative-Justice-Circles-Home Tue, 26 Jan 2021 02:04:16 +0000 Abolitionist Toolbox https://abolitionist.tools/Restorative-Justice-Circles-Home <img width="2604" height="1840" width_o="2604" height_o="1840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1d9e8212ab5991512b6e1b36f2c0904956346eaa0b89a2fc9ca2461a10ae99f/Restorative-Justice-Circles-at-Home_Graphic-Note.png" data-mid="96541007" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1d9e8212ab5991512b6e1b36f2c0904956346eaa0b89a2fc9ca2461a10ae99f/Restorative-Justice-Circles-at-Home_Graphic-Note.png" /> Graphic Notes by Laura Chow Reeve / Radical Roadmaps Restorative Justice Circles at Homewith Jennifer VietsHow can we use family Talking Circles to deepen our closest relationships with honest and open communication? What would it mean to intentionally create our own family values? What is a restorative conversation, and how can we use them to practice naming as well as repairing harm with everyone in our household? What is the value of a Peace Corner for children and adults, and how can we build one? We'll explore these questions and more using the new resource "Talking Circles At Home and Parenting Restoratively" by longtime Restorative Justice practitioner Jennifer Viets. This event is particularly focused on people who are parenting children. Jennifer Viets (she/her/hers) is a Restorative Justice practitioner both in community and in Chicago Public Schools. In her role as a Restorative Practices Coach, she works with all members of a school community to build relationships and employ restorative responses to harm. With an emphasis on using the arts to reach, teach, and heal, she has worked as a multi-disciplinary teaching artist and arts administrator for children and families for the past 30 years. Jennifer is also the mother and mother-in-law of four grown people, and a practicing Abolitionist. She is currently leading virtual circles for teachers, parents, and community members. LINKS Talking Circles at Home and Parenting Restoratively Resource Slide Deck Video RESOURCES SHARED 22 Diverse Book Choices for All Ages (link) Grounding Techniques (link) How To Give A Good Apology, Part 1 (link) How To Give A Good Apology, Part 2 (link) Living Justice Press (free downloads, books, etc.) (link) Video on Reentry Circles (link) Video on Restorative Practices in Schools — Parent Peace Rooms (link) Restorative Practices Toolkit (link)RJ Posters (free downloads) (link) Social Emotional Learning Diverse Book List for Grades PreK-8 (link) SEL in Remote Learning (link) Student Code of Conduct (Chicago) (link) Student Rights &amp; Responsibilities (Chicago) (link) The American Academy of Pediatrics most recent scientific report on the negative outcomes of corporal punishment (link) Latinx Parenting Org (link) &amp; "The Movement to End 'La Chancla,' the Corporal Punishment that Became a Meme" (link) https://abolitionist.tools/Fumbling-Towards-Repair Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:42:13 +0000 Abolitionist Toolbox https://abolitionist.tools/Fumbling-Towards-Repair <img width="2388" height="1688" width_o="2388" height_o="1688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f1cd515aa013a92aff492628c98dfdd81d85bcd24422ba316501ce80d5138f6/Fumbling_Towards_Repair_1.png" data-mid="96542829" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f1cd515aa013a92aff492628c98dfdd81d85bcd24422ba316501ce80d5138f6/Fumbling_Towards_Repair_1.png" /> Graphic Notes by Laura Chow Reeve / Radical Roadmaps Fumbling Towards Repair Practice Sessionwith Mariame Kaba &amp; Shira HassanHave you purchased the ‘Fumbling Towards Repair‘ workbook co-authored by Mariame and Shira? Are you interested in digging into the resource with them? During this session, Mariame and Shira will answer questions that Community Accountability (CA) process facilitators have and will guide you through a couple of the activities in the workbook.The Just Practice Collaborative is a training and mentoring group focused on sustaining a community of practitioners that provide community-based accountability and support structures for all parties involved with incidents and patterns of sexual, domestic, relationship, and intimate community violence. This group and practice is a resource and a model for those who want to address violence without reliance on criminal legal and traditional social services. Shira Hassan has trained and spoken nationally on the sex trade, harm reduction, self-injury, group work and healing, and transformative justice. Currently working as a consultant and coach, Shira offers program development and design, grassroots fundraising, participatory evaluation/action research, and assistance creating sustainable, healing centered and trauma-informed environments within organizations. Mariame Kaba is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a long-term vision to end youth incarceration. She has been active in the anti-criminalization and anti-violence movements for the past 30 years. LINKS Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators Graphic Notes RESOURCES SHARED Beyond Survival (read Nathan’s “Facing Shame: From Saying Sorry to Doing Sorry” pp. 221-231), ed. by Ejeris Dixon &amp; Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Link) Will to Change (preface) by bell hooks (Link) Relinquishing Patriarchy List by adrienne maree brown (Link) How to Be Accountable Workbook by Joe Biel &amp; Faith G. Harper (Link) Spring Up's Cultivate Consent Workbook (Link) The Actual Feeling by Jennifer Williams (Link) Mutual Aid and Trauma Resiliency by the Jane Addams Collective (Link) https://abolitionist.tools/Creating-Community-in-Classrooms Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:50:02 +0000 Abolitionist Toolbox https://abolitionist.tools/Creating-Community-in-Classrooms <img width="2388" height="1688" width_o="2388" height_o="1688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f12c5ef577c47e665ff30d6e727484d973931ad0b9d1355d4a1cc672a2d4cd7/How_To_Share_Space_1.png" data-mid="96544359" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f12c5ef577c47e665ff30d6e727484d973931ad0b9d1355d4a1cc672a2d4cd7/How_To_Share_Space_1.png" /> Graphic Notes by Laura Chow Reeve / Radical Roadmaps Creating Community in Classroomswith Atom Fire ArtsAs education evolves to meet the demands of a new era, we are all learning, socializing, and working in digital spaces more often. Sharing physical space has new limits, too. Online or in person, how we teach, learn, parent, facilitate, and lead are all changing in indelible ways. How do we create nurturing, productive, and transformative spaces for learning, work, and growth? What are the building blocks for sharing space and how can we use them to address our needs as learners and educators? In this session, we will use the resource "How to Share Space: Creating Community in Classrooms and Beyond" as a springboard to explore the opportunities presented by these changing norms and the challenges they bring. Atom Fire Arts is a group of dedicated educators, artists, learners, and their supporters imagining the future of education together. "How to Share Space: Creating Community in Classrooms and Beyond" is a resource that comes out of our research and experience in building worlds with others. We study and seek new ways to implement best practices like trauma-informed care and transformative justice models in order to create learning spaces that allow people to be their fullest and most engaged whole selves. LINKS How To Share Space: Creating Community in Classrooms and Beyond Resource Graphic Notes Slide Deck Video https://abolitionist.tools/Two-Sides-of-Justice Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:56:24 +0000 Abolitionist Toolbox https://abolitionist.tools/Two-Sides-of-Justice <img width="2388" height="1688" width_o="2388" height_o="1688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7124ad6599b25e7dec883a59d50406cd0f7cdbc04795facbab1eddb2dfc0036d/TWO-SIDES-1.png" data-mid="96545339" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7124ad6599b25e7dec883a59d50406cd0f7cdbc04795facbab1eddb2dfc0036d/TWO-SIDES-1.png" /> Graphic Notes by Laura Chow Reeve / Radical Roadmaps Two Sides of Justice Curriculumwith Santera Matthews In this session, we will explore the ‘Two Sides of Justice‘ curriculum by engaging in the activities and discussing how and where this curriculum could be implemented. We will discuss questions like: What is justice? How can we address violence in non-punitive ways? How do carceral systems impact people who cause harm and who have been harmed? Santera Matthews is a queer, mixed indigenous (Keewenaw Bay Ojibwe) organizer born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. Santera’s work focuses on supporting people who are criminalized for acts of self-defense, facilitating and supporting restorative and transformative justice processes, and supporting LGBTQ people who are incarcerated in Wisconsin as an organizer with Black and Pink. LINKSTwo Sides of Justice Curriculum Two Sides of Justice Soundcloud Stories Graphic Notes Slide Deck Video https://abolitionist.tools/Against-Punishment Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:02:16 +0000 Abolitionist Toolbox https://abolitionist.tools/Against-Punishment <img width="2388" height="1688" width_o="2388" height_o="1688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8dc4fffce6b8aef23d4c013f4dfd4e98cdf6bfe8377276d9f19278b90941df3a/Against_Punishment_1.png" data-mid="96546230" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8dc4fffce6b8aef23d4c013f4dfd4e98cdf6bfe8377276d9f19278b90941df3a/Against_Punishment_1.png" /> Graphic Notes by Laura Chow Reeve / Radical Roadmaps Against Punishment Curriculumwith Mariame KabaHow do we imagine a world without prisons and policing? Transforming our punishment mindsets is a daily discipline. Punishment is so deeply ingrained that we fail to even notice how we enact it in our lives. It takes practice to uproot it and to focus on being more restorative in our interactions. Mariame Kaba draws on years of creating and facilitating workshops that give people the space to articulate what true justice might feel like for them. In this resource, she shares some of the activities developed, co-created, and found along the way. You do not have to be an *expert* in restorative or transformative justice to facilitate the activities in this resource. You just have to be curious, willing to learn, and interested in creating accountability beyond punishment. Mariame Kaba is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a long-term vision to end youth incarceration. In 2018, she co-founded Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action with Andrea J. Ritchie. She has been active in the anti-criminalization and anti-violence movements for the past 30 years. LINKS Against Punishment Introduction&nbsp;Against Punishment Curriculum Graphic Notes https://abolitionist.tools/Turning-Towards-Each-Other Wed, 03 Feb 2021 04:29:38 +0000 Abolitionist Toolbox https://abolitionist.tools/Turning-Towards-Each-Other <img width="2514" height="1777" width_o="2514" height_o="1777" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dce2e493b22e88f5590d2912fa68e351e0eba6a840e073082e59bd5934b94afd/Conflict_1-2.png" data-mid="97561832" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dce2e493b22e88f5590d2912fa68e351e0eba6a840e073082e59bd5934b94afd/Conflict_1-2.png" /> Graphic Notes by Laura Chow Reeve / Radical Roadmaps Turning Towards Each Otherwith Jovida Ross &amp; Weyam GhadbianConflict is a necessary and inevitable part of living in the world, especially when you’re someone trying to change it. Too often our change work gets stalled or shut down by poorly handled and/or avoided conflicts. We (Jovida Ross and Weyam Ghadbian) wrote the Turning Towards Each Other Conflict Workbook with the hopes of supporting people working towards social justice to build our collective conflict resilience and strengthen relationships, movements, and collective wellbeing. Join us for a workshop to help orient you to some of the tools in the booklet and better harvest the gifts of conflict in your lives and work! Jovida Ross (she/they) was first politicized watching her solo-parent mom raise three kids on a teacher’s salary. She’s been active in social justice movements ever since. She coauthored Turning Towards Each Other: A Conflict Workbook with Weyam. Jo works with Real Food Real Stories, cultivating connected and just foodsheds through story. Weyam Ghadbian (they/she) is a Syrian healer, meditation instructor, and a transformative facilitator. She is the daughter of Syrian political dissidents and grew up in the U.S. South. She spent years producing cultural programming for healing and social justice and organizing with the SF Bay Area Arab community. Weyam comes to conflict transformation from a deep commitment to creating containers for healing and safety that repair wounds caused by systemic oppression and restore harmony (the meaning of her name) to the earth and each other. LINKS Turning Towards Each Other: A Conflict Workbook Graphic Notes Slide Deck Video https://abolitionist.tools/Criminalizing-Survival Sat, 27 Feb 2021 20:10:08 +0000 Abolitionist Toolbox https://abolitionist.tools/Criminalizing-Survival <img width="2388" height="1688" width_o="2388" height_o="1688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4e0349d7e929e71d2a997295accf5e5def02d13849736805eda156575339504/Criminalizing_Survival_1-2.png" data-mid="100350975" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4e0349d7e929e71d2a997295accf5e5def02d13849736805eda156575339504/Criminalizing_Survival_1-2.png" /> Graphic Notes by Laura Chow Reeve / Radical Roadmaps Criminalizing Survivalwith Mariame KabaJoin Project Nia founder Mariame Kaba for a presentation on the "Criminalizing Survival Curricula" made in conjunction with Survived &amp; Punished. Criminalizing Survival includes curriculum units and activities that can be used for political education focused on the intersections between racialized gender-based violence and criminalization. Some of the activities also address the problems of carceral feminisms and crimmigration. This resource is intended to help activists, advocates, organizers, and community members to learn more about the criminalization of domestic violence survivors. Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots abolitionist organization with a vision to end youth incarceration, and has co-founded multiple organizations and projects over the years, including Survived and Punished, the Just Practice Collaborative, and Interrupting Criminalization. Mariame co-authored the guidebook “Lifting As They Climbed” in 2017, and in 2019 she published her first children’s book, “Missing Daddy.” Her latest book “We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice” is now available through Haymarket Books. LINKS Criminalizing Survival Curricula Graphic Notes Slide Deck Video https://abolitionist.tools/Get-in-Formation Thu, 01 Apr 2021 19:12:25 +0000 Abolitionist Toolbox https://abolitionist.tools/Get-in-Formation <img width="2388" height="1688" width_o="2388" height_o="1688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/12fe804ba202c3fd4b926fbed02249272fa08efb42954b0f287ff4f76649698e/Get_In_Formation_1.png" data-mid="104324607" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/12fe804ba202c3fd4b926fbed02249272fa08efb42954b0f287ff4f76649698e/Get_In_Formation_1.png" /> Graphic Notes by Laura Chow Reeve / Radical Roadmaps Introduction to Get in Formation with Vision Change Win“Get in Formation: A Community Safety Toolkit” is a collection of security and safety practices built by years of learning from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color movements within the U.S.&nbsp;From the toolkit: “At Vision Change Win, we believe that Community Safety includes the following: security, office and organizational safety, verbal de-escalation, physical de-escalation, personal safety, transformative justice processes, community safety neighborhood strategies, bystander intervention, and cop watch. This toolkit will focus specifically on Verbal De-escalation, Office and Organizational Safety, and Security for events and actions, along with specific information tailored to this historical moment of both uprising and viral pandemic.” Vision Change Win Consulting (VCW) is a Black-led team of queer and trans people of color social justice consultants and facilitators dedicated to supporting organizations in fully manifesting their missions, visions, and values. Ejeris Dixon is an organizer, facilitator, and political strategist with 20 years of experience working in racial justice, LGBTQ, anti-violence, and economic justice movements. She is the Founding Director of Vision Change Win Consulting where she partners with organizations to build their capacity and deepen the impact of their organizing strategies.&nbsp; Che Johnson-Long is the Community Safety Program Coordinator at Vision Change Win Consulting where she co-designs community safety and security curriculum, provides one-on-one and organizational support and coordinates VCW’s safety and security programmatic offerings. LINKS Get in Formation: A Community Safety Toolkit Graphic Notes Video https://abolitionist.tools/What-About-The Mon, 03 May 2021 19:09:49 +0000 Abolitionist Toolbox https://abolitionist.tools/What-About-The <img width="2388" height="1688" width_o="2388" height_o="1688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c681eac61551122fd0c995d04e51b8957a9f6d3348cdb3ff0a7d7edb64682156/What_About_The_Rapists_1_Final.png" data-mid="107285228" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c681eac61551122fd0c995d04e51b8957a9f6d3348cdb3ff0a7d7edb64682156/What_About_The_Rapists_1_Final.png" /><img width="2388" height="1688" width_o="2388" height_o="1688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e4033e2a0462e47686908e101a8a455157b95b44e6100c133bb6a0fdb3bf74a/What_About_The_Rapists_2_Final.png" data-mid="107285472" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e4033e2a0462e47686908e101a8a455157b95b44e6100c133bb6a0fdb3bf74a/What_About_The_Rapists_2_Final.png" /> Graphic Notes by Laura Chow Reeve / Radical Roadmaps What About The Rapists with Eva Nagao &amp; Mariame KabaWhat About the Rapists? is intended to help PIC abolitionists map out your responses to questions about interpersonal violence and shares a few helpful resources to help you sharpen your responses. This tool is not intended for public circulation or dissemination. What About the Rapists? Zine