CR’s Abolitionist Educators Workgroups are made up of Critical Resistance members working in different educational contexts and seeking to advance prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition in and through educational institutions. These workgroups collaborate with K-12, higher-ed and community educators and organizers to develop tools, frameworks, and other forms of political education resources.

Tools & Resources

Policing & Militarism on Campus: Reformist reforms vs abolitionist steps

Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators

Published by AK Press with Education for Liberation Network. Cover art by Melanie Cervantes, Dignidad Rebelde

Resource Guide for Teaching & Learning Abolition

8 Actions for Growing Abolition on Your Campus

Webinars

https://vimeo.com/672986736

Teaching & Learning Abolition

Lessons in Liberation #6: Abolitionist Community Organizing

Watch more of the “Lessons in Liberation” launch event series here

Repurposing Our Pedagogies: Abolitionist Teaching in a Global Pandemic

Community, Not Cops!: Abolitionist Organizing Against Police in Schools & Beyond

Young People Are Healers Too: How Can Youth Lead Abolitionist Change to Heal Our Communities?

Get Involved!

1. Use CR materials in your research, curricula and programming

Scroll down on this page for resources created by the Abolitionist Educators Workgroups
Browse our RESOURCES section for hundreds of other sources.
Utilize short videos from the Breaking Down the Prison Industrial Complex Video Project in your classes, peer-to-peer education, presentations and other efforts.

2. Subscribe to The Abolitionist newspaper for your class, department or library.

3. Invite CR members to speak in your class or to host a workshop on campus.

Presentations and workshops include but are not limited to:

Alternatives to Policing or The Abolition of Policing
Intro to the Prison Industrial Complex and Intro to Abolition
Healthcare and the Prison Industrial Complex: Abolitionist Strategies for Resistance
Stop the injunctions!: What is a gang injunction and how Oakland fought back
Our Communities, Our Solutions: Community Accountability Models and Strategies
Know Your Rights & How to Interact with Cops and more!

Request a Workshop from CR

4. Donate resources: cash, contacts, in-kind all accepted.

Money donations can be made online or by sending a check to Critical Resistance’s National Office
Do you sometimes receive a speaking honoraria? Consider dedicating some or all of it to Critical Resistance.
Share your contacts, introduce people to CR and recommend that fellow teachers and students subscribe to CR’s newsletters.
Offer your venue, your meeting space, your school for events and organizing.