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With Issue 39 in 2023 (see below), CR’s editorial collective began a collaboration with Beyond Prisons Podcast for a show on each issue of The Abolitionist. Give our podcast show “Over the Wall” a listen while reading through our past issues and sample early-release articles below!
Download in English / Descargar en Español “The moment we live in gives us the opportunity to highlight the starkness of the oppressive systems that affect every part of our…
Download in English / Descargar en Español “In all our work, we organize to build power and to stop the devastation that the reliance on prisons and policing has brought…
Download in English / Descargar en Español “As we mark five years and counting at war in Iraq and consider the manipulation of the poor and of communities of color…
Download in English “The point is, …in the face of what we confront, to fight and win. That’s the real objective: not just to make statements, no matter how noble,…
Download in English / Descargar en Español “The prison industrial complex is a maze of laws and rules and regulations and policies and procedures. For most of us, navigating the…
Download in English / Descargar en Español “Silence from and about the subject was the order of the day. Some of the silences were broken, and some were maintained by…
Download in English / Descargar en Español This printing marks the fourth edition of The Abolitionist. We’re finally growing into our skin a bit and feel better situated to make…
“To create local, self-determined solutions we must understand and dismantle the overarching systems of white supremacy, patriarchy and imperialism, which have poor communities under siege” – Letter from the Editors…
This is the first issue of The Abolitionist, published in Spring of 2005 by Critical Resistance-Oakland. Download in English and Spanish…