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Each year in December, Critical Resistance (CR) reflects on the advances we’ve made throughout the year against the prison industrial complex (PIC). From celebrating 25 years of strategy and struggle… Critical Resistance (CR) is looking for volunteers to support with data entry to help us audit and update our list of ~10,000 imprisoned comrades!
Volunteers who sign up will conduct… Whether it was celebrating 25 years of Critical Resistance (CR) with a large fundraiser and panel in May, propelling our prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist campaign and project work forward,… This week this year marks the 52nd anniversary of the Attica Rebellion—when from September 9-13, 1971, about 1,300 prisoners rose up in resistance against horrible prison conditions. In solidarity with… The latest issue of Critical Resistance’s cross-wall bilingual newspaper, The Abolitionist— this time focused on examining reproductive justice and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition—, has printed on Juneteenth 2023, and… Happy Mamas’ Day from Critical Resistance (CR)!
Mamas, aunties, and caretakers have been the back bone of abolition for generations.
According to Prison Policy Initiative and Interrupting Criminalization:
Almost 1… This International Workers’ Day, Critical Resistance celebrates recent advances in the labor movement and the necessary growth in ties to the fight for prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition.
We have… Join us May 5 in-person at San Francisco State University or online via livestream for “Toward Abolitionist Horizons: 25 Years of Critical Resistance,” an evening of discussion and performances, looking… Stephen Wilson, prolific writer and abolitionist educator locked up in Pennsylvania— who is a dear comrade of Critical Resistance and a columnist of our newspaper, The Abolitionist— has been getting… This international women’s day, we hold up the light of abolition feminism to make sense of this moment and continue forging a path forward.
As the distance between the haves…
2023 Annual Year-End Letter: CR Updates from the Year!
Call for Volunteers: Support CR’s Prisoner Solidarity Efforts!
Summer 2023 Updates & News!
Attica Means Fight Back: Reflecting on 52 years of Prisoner Rebellion
Hot off the press: Issue 39 of The Abolitionist on Reproductive Justice!
Free All Mamas: Give the Gift of The Abolitionist Newspaper this Mothers’ Day!
Building Worker Power for Abolition: International Workers’ Day 2023
Looking Back, Looking Forward On 25 Years of Critical Resistance – Toward Abolitionist Horizons!
URGENT: Take Action TODAY to support Stevie Wilson, Columnist of CR’s The Abolitionist
Abolition Feminism NOW! & International Women’s Day