https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w Check out these anti/non carceral feminist projects! Please add more as you find them. en-us 2022-04-06 17:08:36 UTC 2023-04-20 18:33:20 UTC hello@padlet.com mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133063284 2022-04-06 17:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133063284 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133063912 Elyse Hatch-Rivera : This organization really focuses on using "community strategies" instead of police resources. They also focus on providing tool kits of strategies to create safety within communities, strategies that specifically do not rely on the state or police (also look at how the state and its carceral logic have transpired, for example the war on terror). They also emphasize leadership development in communities so there are people and visible systems in a community to rely on instead of police. Not just community accountability but community development. ]]> 2022-04-06 17:10:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133063912 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133064692 2022-04-06 17:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133064692 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133065273 2022-04-06 17:11:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133065273 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133067487
Nora-- Big Door Brigade is a website/collective based in and around Seattle, Washington that aims to break down the barriers for getting involved in abolitionist and other leftist social organizing through education. Their aim is to increase participation in these movements.]]> 2022-04-06 17:12:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133067487 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133068169 Josh - Started in 2004, this group has grown from smaller level workshops to spread alternatives to police responses to violence and has expanded into broader "community capacity" building. ]]> 2022-04-06 17:12:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133068169 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133069828 2022-04-06 17:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133069828 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133070161 2022-04-06 17:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133070161 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133078275 2022-04-06 17:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133078275 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133094288 2022-04-06 17:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133094288 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133094742 2022-04-06 17:27:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133094742 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133095619 2022-04-06 17:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133095619 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133097001 Aine Ramiro-Shanahan: 
This is not an organization, but rather an excellent, user-friendly compilation of resources that focuses on six main topics: Transformative justice, restorative justice, community accountability, abolition, carceral feminism, and healing justice. Each tab contains articles, community training guides, and podcasts and videos.


I chose to click on the "healing justice" tab and read some of the collected articles because I feel that healing and disability justice, which are inexorably entwined, can sometimes be overlooked in responses to harm and violence. "Healing justice" is roughly defined as an approach to reclaiming ancestral practices and building new, more equitable healing practices in response to generational trauma and systemic violence. ]]> 2022-04-06 17:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2133097001 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2134702396 2022-04-07 14:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2134702396 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2134703035 2022-04-07 14:26:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2134703035 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2136632981 2022-04-08 16:38:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2136632981 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2141314167 Shira Hassan's now defunct but AMAZING organization organizing with folks involved in the sex trades and street economies in Chicago]]> 2022-04-12 18:40:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2141314167 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2141317465 2022-04-12 18:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2141317465 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2141321867 2022-04-12 18:45:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2141321867 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2142575993 Emma - Common Justice works in NYC as an alternative to the criminal legal system. If harmed parties agree, then the case is diverted to a restorative justice process that will replace the prison sentences the responsible party would have served. Common Justice also has an organizing and policy section called United for Healing Equity that aims to build the collective power of the Latinx and Black community to support every community's right to heal. They also run a blog and are involved in various action work around NYC.]]> 2022-04-13 15:24:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2142575993 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2142977299 Jonah Brumbach]]> 2022-04-13 20:45:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2142977299 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2145607052 2022-04-16 18:16:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2145607052 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2145620514 Justice Arts Coalition (JAC) unites teaching artists, arts advocates, artists who are or have been incarcerated and their allies, harnessing the transformative power of the arts to reimagine justice.

^{Anna Keefe- This appears to be an organization that dances around TJ language but is working in conjunction with the carceral state. I'm interested in looking into their mission/work and doing a critical analysis of their ties to carcerality.}

]]> 2022-04-16 18:49:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2145620514 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2146272957 Serena - FreeFrom takes an ecological approach to interrupting cycles of gender-based violence. Their approach frames intimate partner violence as a structural economic issue, and through several different initiatives they work to generate and redistribute wealth to survivors. This includes cash grants (no questions asked), savings matching programs, peer groups, and more.]]> 2022-04-17 22:56:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2146272957 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2146366216 Sarah GE - This is a statewide coalition of programs aimed at ending relationship abuse. Though the organization focuses on challenging institutions & structures, it has worked closely with the carceral state. My goal is to critique and analyze their work/achievements.  ]]> 2022-04-18 01:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2146366216 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2147119020 Grace D - Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois is a non-profit organization that provides legal services and educational resources to people inside and outside of prison. They list their core values as prison abolition, gender self-determination, and transformative justice. Ash Stevens is part of their Board of Stewards! Their main initiatives focus on providing resources for name changes, representing clients with criminal cases, and helping people expunge their criminal records. They see legal services as an immediate response to harm, rather than a solution to structural violence and oppression. Their website states that they support long term movements for prison abolition, but I couldn’t find any more specifics. After reading ‘Every Mistake I’ve Made’ by Shira Hassan, where she argues that things complicit with the state such as social work shouldn’t be considered transformative justice, I wonder how their work might be in tension with their value of transformative justice.]]> 2022-04-18 15:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2147119020 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2150506940 2022-04-20 15:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2150506940 kschult3 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2158619636 Kit - This is a nonprofit organization that aims to free "wrongfully convicted" persons from prison. They have several branches of the organization across the country, but this is the original organization from NYC. I want to critique this organization's work and how they approach the prison industrial complex.]]> 2022-04-26 14:23:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2158619636 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2529348144 2023-03-23 18:56:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2529348144 mbeam7_1 https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2550615077 In particular, SONG's Black Mama Bail Out]]> 2023-04-11 19:04:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mbeam7_1/35sume3ghblwb97w/wish/2550615077