TOOLS
Justice Collective uses three tools of change: education, organizing, and action.
EDUCATION
Justice Collective works to deepen our understanding about what punishment looks like across Europe: How punishment is experienced; how police, prisons and surveillance are used; and who is impacted by these systems. Justice Collective does this by facilitating community and grassroots documentation, dialogue, and education. It also aims to shift the broader public’s assumptions about punishment in Europe; and shares lessons, experiences, and information about how to transform these punitive policies and cultures.
COMING SOON: PUNISHMENT IN EUROPE CURRICULUM
In Spring 2022, Justice Collective will launch a draft curriculum for communities, advocates, policymakers, and the public to engage in questions about punishment in Europe. We will consider: What happens to people after they are controlled by the police? What does Europe’s punishment apparatus look like and who is subject to it? Is it true, as many assume, that punitiveness is only a problem in the US?
The curriculum will be released as a draft because it is a starting point for discussion. Together with partners and communities, we will continue to develop the tool, and consider together how we may bring about change.
ORGANIZATION
Justice Collective builds its understanding and resistance against policing, prisons, and punishment, in dialogue with impacted people, communities, and activists across issue areas. This work benefits from an internationalist approach, including by building connections across Europe. This is because many of the underlying causes of carcerality are similar across countries including growing inequality, resistance to migration, and a lack of engagement on racial injustice. The instruments of punishment are similar too–from the proliferation of “gang” databases to restrictions on asylum seekers. By connecting with each other we can share lessons and build together.
ACTION
Justice Collective engages in campaigns and actions to lift up and develop alternatives to carcerality. Justice Collective’s action take place in communities so that its models for change are developed within the realities and demands of a particularplace. Justice Collective shares lessons from these actions and projects, and from interventions by its partners.