FUND COMMUNITY, NOT COPS!
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…
Critical Resistance: Campaigns & Project Updates
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.
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.… Critical Resistance is excited to share with you our new organizers’ toolkit—Our Communities, Our Solutions: An Organizer’s Toolkit to Developing Campaigns to Abolish Policing—now available for download.
Our struggle… 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… Near the end of May 2020, uprisings set off around the world uplifting a range of calls to remedy state violence and racial capitalism. At this juncture, our communities are… Over the years our Oakland chapter has periodically researched and developed mid-year or annual reviews of policing as a way to report developments in Oakland’s use of policing and assess… This past month, CR PDX has been pushing the Care Not Cops campaign to move swiftly in demanding real safety and resources for our most vulnerable community members, supporting prisoner… Care Not Cops Review of Wheeler’s Proposed Policing Budget
May 3rd, 2019
On Wednesday, Mayor Ted Wheeler released his proposed budget for the City of Portland. This included a policing…
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!
CHECK OUT OUR *NEW* ORGANIZERS’ TOOLKIT TO ABOLISH POLICING!
JOIN US THURSDAY, OCT 15 FOR STRAIGHT OUT OF CONFINEMENT, AN ABOLITION NOW NETWORK WEBINAR!
Resist Policing Summer 2020 Newsletter: Cooking Up Rebellion
CR Oakland’s 2020 Mid-Year Report on Policing in Oakland
CR PDX mobilizing Portland for Care Not Cops & Resist Mayor’s proposal for millions more toward policing
Portland Demands People’s Budget Over Policing