Interrupting Criminalization and One Million Experiments introduce So You Started an Experiment, agenda playlists for starting strong and looking out for each other for the long-term compiled by Transformative Skill Up Fellow Shana Agid.
The formations we build to counter the violence of the prison industrial complex — including borders and border enforcement, policing, incarceration, and surveillance — and the things we make to sustain ourselves and our communities, require us to stay clear, listen well, and get (organizationally) healthy. This means learning how to work together, build strategy, and practice showing up well when conflicts happen.
So You Started An Experiment is a compilation of short videos, slides, and workbook pages drawn from Interrupting Criminalization’s Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox series to support groups getting ahead of the inevitable conflicts that come up in organizing.
Each playlist focuses on a different key topic and set of skills core to building our capacity to plan for conflicts and know what to do, in our specific groups and local places, when they happen.
The playlists are meant to be about the length of one or two meetings for organizations or a short retreat or workshop. Each one includes step-by-step materials and compact facilitation guides, available in Padlet (an online platform that you can use to step through the playlist) and as a PDF with links to the materials.
This first kit will support your group in naming assumptions, principles, and goals for your work while also getting ready to address conflicts before they happen. It includes materials from In It Together, by Interrupting Criminalization and Dragonfly Partners, and from Turning Towards Each Other, by Jovida Ross and Weyam Ghadbian. It features video clips from Project NIA and Interrupting Criminalization’s Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox series, workbook excerpts, and slide presentation excerpts, along with the facilitation guide (which you can download as an 11” x 17” poster to print for your group, if you’re into paper!).
This kit will support your group to reflect on individual values, experiences acting within and outside those values, and ways to respond when actions are not in line with values. You will name ways to practice accountability together and talk about how this supports your movement work. It features materials from Shannon Perez-Darby and from Get in Formation by Vision Change Win, and a facilitation guide (which you can download as an 11” x 17” poster to print for your group, if you’re into paper).
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