Seattle RA began the work of developing community accountability practices in March 2015. The RA Ethics Committee formed soon after to draft a document describing the values, principles, and standards that guide the RA community. In October 2015, the Committee presented the Code of Ethics to the community at large.

 

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Books, articles, zines, and other resources used in the development of our Code of Ethics and our community accountability practices:

 

Overview of the concepts and practices of transformative justice and community accountability processes:

• Transformative Justice and Community Accountability One-Page Summary.

• Mia Mingus’s Pods and Pod Mapping: Mia Mingus is a thought leader on the subject of community accountability. This offers a simple practical exercise to demonstrate what’s needed to have any kind of accountability practice.

• Challenging Men, Changing Communities: Reflections on male supremacy and transformative justice

• Accounting for ourselves: Breaking the impasse around assault and abuse in anarchist scenes.

• Towards transformative justice.

• Taking risks: Implementing grass roots community accountability strategies.

• Philly stands up: Inside the politics and poetics of transformative justice and community accountability in sexual assault situations.

• Creative Interventions Toolkit Section 2 Some Basics Everyone Should Know

• Creative Interventions Toolkit Section 3 Model Overview: Is it right for you?

Beyond Intro: 

• The revolution starts at home: Confronting partner abuse in activist communities.

• Moving beyond critique: Creative interventions and reconstructions of community accountability.

• In our hands: Community accountability as pedagogical strategy.

• Thoughts about community support around intimate violence.

• As if they were human: A different take on perpetrator accountability.

• Betrayal: A critical analysis of rape culture in anarchist subcultures.

• The broken teapot.

• We are all survivors, we are all perpetrators: What to do when someone tells you that you violated their boundaries, made them feel uncomfortable, or committed assault.

Into Action:

• Organizing for Community Accountability

• Transformative Justice Curriculum

• It Takes A Village, People!

• Communities engaged in resisting violence.

• Community accountability for survivors of sexual violence toolkit.

• Harm free zone project general framework

Two Big Handbooks:

• Creative interventions toolkit: A practical guide to stop interpersonal violence.

• Nonviolent community safety and peacebuilding handbook.