2023 Annual Report
Dear friends and fellow travelers, 2023 marked 25 years since the founding conference of Critical Resistance (CR), and we are proud to still hold the spirit and vision of that…
Annual reports showcase the work Critical Resistance has done each year. Look through the archive at past years to see a progression of Critical Resistance’s work over time.
2022 Annual Report
In 2022, Critical Resistance (CR) advanced our work to shut down prisons in California, to resist the grip of immigrant detention in New York, and to continue building strong political…
2021 Annual Report
Dear friends and fellow travelers, In 2021 Critical Resistance (CR) and our coalition partners forged ahead with campaigns to close prisons in California, to chip away at systems of immigrant…
2020 Annual Report
2020 Annual ReportDownload Dear Friends and Fellow Travelers, The challenges, loss and hardship of 2020 motivated us to organize with urgency, responsiveness and solidarity. As health, economic, and political crises…
2018 Annual Report
2018 Annual ReportDownload Twenty years since the first Critical Resistance conference seeded abolition as the solution to the devastating violence of the prison industrial complex, the analysis, ideas, and, increasingly,…
2017 Annual Report
2017 Annual ReportDownload Critical Resistance is energized by the growing demand to move beyond the violence of imprisonment and policing and towards a society that centers health and self-determination. It’s…
2016 Annual Report
2016 Annual ReportDownload CR members across the country were hard at work in 2016 eroding the power of the PIC and paving the way for healthy, self-determined communities. As you…
2015 Annual Report
2015 Annual ReportDownload Dear Friends, Critical Resistance engages in work across the US through campaigns to dismantle the prison industrial complex and projects to build up the community based mechanisms we…
2014 Annual Report
2014 Annual ReportDownload Critical Resistance is proud of what we have built as an organization and a movement, and this year again confirmed our role in the struggle to abolish…
2013 Annual Report
2013 Annual ReportDownload The prison industrial complex is wide and deep and complicated. In order to fight for its abolition, Critical Resistance uses the framework of DISMANTLE, CHANGE, BUILD to…