Transformative Justice Knows No Borders (www.interruptingcriminalization.com)

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In May of 2023, we hosted “Practicing for an Abolitionist World,” a virtual gathering for transformative justice, restorative justice, and community accountability practitioners from around the world, with the belief that community-based responses to harm know no borders and have always been global. In this new report, Transformative Justice Knows No Borders, we share learnings from that convening, including case studies from Kurdistan, India, the Philippines, and Argentina.

This report looks at the different languages and lineages people draw on in each of these places to root transformative justice practices in their local soil. Under each of their responses to interpersonal violence lies a vast network of care infrastructures that enable such responses — solidarity economies, self-governance systems, and new relationships to law and to each other. Built by movements, these are like the root systems and mycelial networks of fungi under the soil that enable plants and trees aboveground to thrive.

The genocide in Palestine, along with war, violence, repression, and rising authoritarianism around the world, have drawn our attention yet again to the interdependence of state violence at home and globally. This calls on us to weave transnational networks of resistance. We hope that this new resource can help you connect your organizing to a larger mycelial network that spans borders and states as part of the “Transformative Justice Transnational,” and that you find it useful as we collectively continue to weave transnational networks of care, healing, and justice.

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Abolish is to flourish! Against the prison industrial complex and for transformative justice.

See Critical Resistance's definitions below:

The Prison Industrial Complex

The prison industrial complex (PIC) is a term we use to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social and political problems.

Through its reach and impact, the PIC helps and maintains the authority of people who get their power through racial, economic and other privileges. There are many ways this power is collected and maintained through the PIC, including creating mass media images that keep alive stereotypes of people of color, poor people, queer people, immigrants, youth, and other oppressed communities as criminal, delinquent, or deviant. This power is also maintained by earning huge profits for private companies that deal with prisons and police forces; helping earn political gains for "tough on crime" politicians; increasing the influence of prison guard and police unions; and eliminating social and political dissent by oppressed communities that make demands for self-determination and reorganization of power in the US.

Abolition

PIC abolition is a political vision with the goal of eliminating imprisonment, policing, and surveillance and creating lasting alternatives to punishment and imprisonment.

From where we are now, sometimes we can't really imagine what abolition is going to look like. Abolition isn't just about getting rid of buildings full of cages. It's also about undoing the society we live in because the PIC both feeds on and maintains oppression and inequalities through punishment, violence, and controls millions of people. Because the PIC is not an isolated system, abolition is a broad strategy. An abolitionist vision means that we must build models today that can represent how we want to live in the future. It means developing practical strategies for taking small steps that move us toward making our dreams real and that lead us all to believe that things really could be different. It means living this vision in our daily lives.

Abolition is both a practical organizing tool and a long-term goal.

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