As Critical Resistance develops strong and vibrant grassroots projects and campaigns for abolition, check out updates from our work in Portland, Los Angeles, New York City, Oakland and across the US.
Through the pandemic, CR steadfastly continues to build connections across cages and walls. Since Covid-19 and Shelter-in-Place, we are rerouting all the collect calls to our office that we receive…
Join us to Close CA Prisons at Freedom Friday on July 30th from 3-7pm!
Prison closure is on our horizon. After CA’s horrifying wave of prison construction was… We at Critical Resistance are excited to present our newest release – On the Road to Freedom – a toolkit we’ve created in partnership with Community Justice Exchange. This toolkit… Your gifts will help essential organizing against imprisonment.
Following successful 2019 and 2020 victories with coalitions against local jail expansion, CR Oakland and Los Angeles chapters have eagerly joined… This Mother’s Day, Critical Resistance sends our solidarity and fortitude to all the mothers, aunties, grandmothers, caregivers, and those who love them. We celebrate and uplift all the mothers and… On March 30, 2020, Critical Resistance and a powerful cast of movement partners came together for “Organizing Against Toxic Imprisonment in the Face of Covid-19,” a webinar rapidly organized to… Critical Resistance is pleased to offer a brand new anti-imprisonment tool, a “Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps to end imprisonment” poster! Wondering about the differences between reforms that strengthen imprisonment… Join us and the AbolitionNOW Network for another webinar, this time on #DefundThePolice, #FreeThemALL and the Fight for Abolition!
As the election fast approaches and the fight to defund… Numerous organizations across our movement to abolish the prison industrial complex have been fighting tirelessly to “Free Them All For Public Health,” as more and more the COVID crisis reveals… Critical Resistance Oakland has been working diligently since 2013 against jailing and criminalization in San Francisco through No New SF Jail Coalition. In 2015, the coalition successfully defeated plans for…
Correspondence and connection with people inside is essential
Bay Area: Join Us July 30 for #FreedomFriday in North Oakland!
ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM: AN ABOLITIONIST ASSESSMENT OF PRETRIAL AND BAIL REFORMS
FUND CARE NOT CAGES!
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!
NATIONAL EVENT APRIL 13, 2021: ABOLITION IS ESSENTIAL — ORGANIZING AGAINST THE PIC IN THE FACE OF COVID-19
ABOLITIONIST STEPS TO END IMPRISONMENT – NEW ORGANIZING RESOURCE
JOIN US THURSDAY, OCT 15 FOR STRAIGHT OUT OF CONFINEMENT, AN ABOLITION NOW NETWORK WEBINAR!
July 2020 Newsletter: Fight Like Hell–Against Imprisonment & Caging
Victory in the Bay: No New SF Jail Coalition passes law to close SF County Jail 4