Introduction

Welcome to Stories for Power! Creative Interventions and Just Practice Collaborative joined forces to re-launch the StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP) project to document and collect histories and stories about how we have been working to respond to violence without the use of prisons, police and other carceral systems. Deana Lewis, our podcast host and Just Practice Collaborative member, speaks with producers Mimi Kim, Rachel Caidor and Shira Hassan to introduce Stories for Power. These abolitionist feminists share how they envisioned and curated the podcast series to document the evolution of community accountability and transformative justice frameworks and local/national strategies since their own origins in the anti-violence movements of the 1980’s and 1990’s. Join us as we talk about some of the critical ideas and juicy parts of the podcast and reflect on over 20+ years of organizing captured in this precious archive of stories and feelings that shape our current abolitionist movement.

List of organizations/historic/current references mentioned in this episode:

Incite! Women & Trans People Against Violence

Critical Resistance

StoryTelling Organizing & Project (STOP)

Stories for Power

Just Practice Collaborative

Creative Interventions

Presented by Creative Interventions and Just Practice Collaborative

Executive Producers — Mimi Kim, Rachel Caïdor & Shira Hassan

Producer, Sound Recordist, and Editor — iLL Weaver for Emergence Media

Host - Deana Lewis

Music Editor and Audio Engineer — Joe Namy

Digital Strategy- Yessica Gonzalez

Graphic Design - And Also Too

Theme song & music composed by — Scale Hands and L05 of Complex Movements in collaboration with Ahya Simone

Stories for Power is supported by Collective Futures Fund and Libra Foundation

Learn more and share your stories at StoriesforPower.org