Cripping Abolition, Guiding Principles Based on Disability Justice, and Reforms to Oppose

An online directory of community-based resources available as alternatives to calling the police or 911 in your city.

Our mission is to use law for the people, uniting lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers to function as an effective force in the service of the people by valuing human rights and the rights of ecosystems over property interests.

A collective of PIC abolitionists at Northwestern who want to support other and potential abolitionists as well as folks on the inside.

The mission of CARE is to create a culture of healthy sexuality at Northwestern University where sexual violence, relationship violence, and stalking are not tolerated.

An initiative of Northwestern University to provide a high-quality liberal arts education to incarcerated students in Illinois in partnership with Oakton Community College and the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC).

As we work to defund our campus police, we must begin to imagine together how we want accountability and harm reduction to function on our campus.

BIPOC student activist and organizers demanding Northwestern University divest from systems of policing and invest in Black communities.

Creates co-curricular educational opportunities in partnership with our student community that foster self-exploration, facilitate conversations across difference and support actions that create social change on campus.

A Black woman-led, young person-directed organization rooted in the Black Radical Tradition.

Axis Lab is an arts and architecture community organization based on Argyle Street in Uptown, Chicago. We engage in arts, educational programming, urban design, culinary curating, and other multidisciplinary approaches to advocate for ethical development for immigrant and refugees.

A constellation of people & organizations collaborating to dismantle anti-Black & carceral systems and build systems that affirm & nurture Black lives.

The first Black and trans led LGBTQIA center located on the South Side of Chicago.

An all-volunteer group that distributes paperback books free of charge to incarcerated people nationwide, focusing on all women and trans/non-binary people.

Rooted in the long legacy of liberatory education, Chicago Freedom School (CFS) provides training and education for young people and adult allies to create a just world.

Our reporting on envisioning and organizing a city less reliant on cops to keep us safe.

Collects and publishes information about police misconduct in Chicago.

A group for the continuous fight for Black lives in Evanston, and a resource and space for community building, conversation and calls to action.

We provide books to youth in prison to encourage imagination, self-determination & connection to the outside worlds of their choosing.

A charitable Chicago-based collaboration between data scientists, transparency activists, artists, & technologists that sheds light on the intersection of digital rights and on-the-streets issues.

We help people in organizations move beyond diversity, through 1-on-1 consulting, executive coaching, comprehensive training, and quantitative and qualitative assessment.

A group committed to abolition and organizing resources for incarcerated moms.

Mailing projects across walls and revolutionary abolitionist community organizing.

A coalition led by incarcerated + free world activists working to End Death By Incarceration.

A visual arts and education project that connects teaching artists and scholars to incarcerated students at Stateville Maximum Security Prison through classes, workshops, a policy think tank, and guest lectures. Classes cover subjects ranging from poetry, visual arts, and creative writing to political theory, social studies, and history.

Dedicated to supporting the struggle of poor and working people. We believe that everyone has fundamental human rights which deserve protection, including people in prison, people experiencing homelessness, people who are disabled, and tenants.