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For the month of April, we honor two dates that speak to the resilience of life under violent systems of control: Palestinian Prisoners Day on April 17, and Earth Day… As we’ve moved from Black History Month through Women’s History Month, marking the later with International Women’s Day in the month’s beginning and ending it with the upcoming International Day… Today is the annual celebration of the life and legacy of Dr Martin Luther King, his commitment to rejecting racism, economic inequality, militarism and imperialism. This recognition and reclamation of… The latest episode the Over the Wall podcast show on Beyond Prisons Podcast is now available on CR’s website, and will be on Beyond Prisons as soon as possible.
Episode… What would it take to “stop the war” when, in late-stage capitalism, war is constant?
From Israel’s ongoing, raging genocide on Gaza to US military expansion from Hawai’i to Puerto… Dear Community,
As we find ourselves in what will be a long cycle of being called upon to “defeat fascism and save democracy” every four years, it would serve us… Today, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we at Critical Resistance (CR) join communities everywhere to honor native peoples’ ongoing legacies of struggle for decolonization in Turtle Island and across the world.… While the prison industrial complex (PIC) is an ever-shifting goliath in California politics, we’ve seen community-oriented and abolitionist gains in the state over the last 10 years due to decades… Dear Friends & Comrades of CR,
Black August is a time of year to strengthen our commitment to fight for the end of imprisonment and imperialism and for Black liberation. … On Tuesday, June 25, 2024, Critical Resistance (CR) printed the newest issue of The Abolitionist Newspaper to date, a bi-lingual, cross-wall political education and organizing project free to imprisoned people…
Honoring Palestinian Prisoners Day & Earth Day: Resistance, Liberation, and the Fight for Life
From Black History Month to Women’s History Month: Uplifting the Feminist Tradition of Abolition
Honoring MLK’s Radical Legacy & Resisting the right-wing’s pull
Episode 3 of CR’s “Over the Wall” Podcast with Beyond Prisons: On Issues 41 & 42 of The Abolitionist!
Hot Off The Press: The Abolitionist Issue 42 on anti-war organizing!
Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) Abolition Must be Central to Anti-Fascism
Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance Today & Always
CA Prop 36 Endangers Abolitionist Gains in the Golden State
This Black August: Train, study & fight for abolition with Critical Resistance (CR)
Abolition Saves the Planet: Read all about it in Issue 41 of The Abolitionist Newspaper