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Captive Genderswill fill those cells, or a campaign to decriminalize activities are (see Step 4to ensure you are not pitting said group of activities against another). Usethe third exercise to think of other examples.Step 2: Where are you working?It’s important to emphasize here that we try to build leadership developmentwork into our project and campaigns, not make it something separate.It’s also good to mention here that we try to go after big, central partsof the PIC, not “low hanging fruit.”Step 3: CoalitionsYou can’t win this fight on your own. Build stronger relationships withyour allies and start new relationships, in every phase of your work.Step 4: No to NIMBYNIMBY means “Not In My Back Yard.” It’s really easy to look out forNIMBY-ism in terms of prison and jail construction—making sure youaren’t saying “don’t build a jail here, build it there.” But NIMBY also appliesto the rest of the PIC. Abolition can’t win if we pit groups of prisoners(“women” vs. “men,” or “nonviolent” vs. “violent”) against each other.We can make specific claims to eliminate specific parts of the PIC withoutimplying that other parts are ok to let stand.Step 5: Healthy solutions?We have to create an active, dynamic balance between tearing down thethings we don’t want, and building up the things we do.Step 6: Whose words are you using?We all need to help each other learn new ways of talking about the world,whether it’s saying “people in prison” instead of “criminals,” or “inmates,”or working openly to combat white supremacy, sexism, or gender violencein how we talk to each other. Building a new language takes time, but isessential to building the new world we want to live in, and it can bringto light and work to counteract the manipulative ways in which the PIC350