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.
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… Situated within a wave of increased training proposed across the country and a rise in police killings nationally since 2020, the now two-year struggle in Atlanta to stop Cop City,… – Critical Resistance reflects on the current landscape of policing in 2023 and recommends what is to be done –
After the largest protests in US history, we see… In recent months, we’ve seen an escalation and expansion of gender-based, white-supremacist violence across the political spectrum in the US.
From right-wing consolidation and mobilizations to the overturning of Roe… Critical Resistance’s Annual Report for 2021 is now available for wide use to bolster an international movement to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC).
This roundup of CR’s work… Critical Resistance (CR) and Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) invite you to Freedom Friday!
When: 3-7pm on Friday August 27, 2021
Where: 4400 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA
* FREE *… Your support is crucial in fights to fund our communities, not cops!
With the call to Defund Police ringing in the air following 2020’s uprisings, we are advancing this… 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… A Winning Start to Defund Campaign
Moves Forward in Oakland
Defund Oakland Police Department (OPD) Coalition successfully moves community recommendations through Reimagine Public Safety task force to Oakland City… New “Advice to New Abolitionists” Video by Rachel Herzing
In 2020, we saw one of the biggest waves of people identifying as abolitionist and calling for abolition in different ways.…
Free All Mamas: Give the Gift of The Abolitionist Newspaper this Mothers’ Day!
#StopCopCity: Resist Policing in Atlanta & Defend the ATL Forest
On a Deadly Rise: The Need for Winning Abolitionist Campaigns to Stop Police Violence & Build a World Without Policing
Abolition is a Feminist Politic: On Abortion Bans & Racialized Gender-Based Violence
New Release: CR’s 2021 Annual Report!
AUGUST UPDATES FROM CR OAKLAND: JOIN US FOR FREEDOM FRIDAY THIS WEEK!
FUND COMMUNITY, NOT COPS!
NATIONAL EVENT APRIL 13, 2021: ABOLITION IS ESSENTIAL — ORGANIZING AGAINST THE PIC IN THE FACE OF COVID-19
DEFUND OPD VICTORY & NEXT ACTION
2 NEW TOOLS: ADVICE VIDEO AND DEFUND POLICING WEBSITE!