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.
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…
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…
– 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…
Last week, the newest issue of The Abolitionist newspaper, Issue #38, was printed is now en route to nearly 5,000 subscribers inside and outside of cages.
To get a sense…
Dear friends and supporters of Critical Resistance,
During this year of intense political upheaval, Critical Resistance (CR) has steadfastly advanced prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition in our campaigns, projects, and…
As the dust settles after this year’s midterm election, we at Critical Resistance (CR) are reflecting on the balance of forces that are aligning at this moment and what it…
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…
51 years ago, a 17-year old brought 3 guns into the Marin County Courthouse on August 7, 1970 in a bold act of resistance. With the assistance of three prisoners,…
Dear Readers of The Abolitionist and Critical Resistance supporters:
What a year 2021 has already been and we are only halfway through. We are thrilled to announce that Issue…