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On November 1, 2023 Critical Resistance (CR) was joined by thousands of people for our Abolition Means No More War: Free Palestine Now webinar with Angela Davis, Lara Kiswani of … The all-out war apartheid-Israel has waged on the people of Gaza in the past two weeks has exposed the unreliability and outright racism of Western media once again. The demonization… This week, Atlanta residents and organizers are making a final push to gain the 70,000 signatures needed to get a referendum on the November ballot for the people of Atlanta… The latest issue of Critical Resistance’s cross-wall bilingual newspaper, The Abolitionist— this time focused on examining reproductive justice and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition—, has printed on Juneteenth 2023, and… 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… 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,… As we progress through the 11th anniversary of the CA prisoner hunger strikes against solitary confinement, where tens of thousands of prisoners across CA joined forces to challenge the use… 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,… Because the PIC segregates and isolates individuals, communities, and issue areas, we know that our efforts can only be successful if we build stronger, deeper, and wider alliances as we… Critical Resistance stands in solidarity with Palestine and is deeply opposed to Israel’s continued colonization, occupation, and use of imprisonment and administrative detention against the Palestinian people. As an organization…
From Webinars to Blocking Boats: Solidarity Actions for a Free Palestine!
Apartheid-Israel, War & Propaganda: Legitimizing Genocide of Palestinians
This Week in ATL: Mobilize to Stop Cop City!
Hot off the press: Issue 39 of The Abolitionist on Reproductive Justice!
Abolition Feminism NOW! & International Women’s Day
#StopCopCity: Resist Policing in Atlanta & Defend the ATL Forest
Long Live Paul Redd & the CA Prisoner Hunger Strikes to End Solitary Confinement!
Reflecting on the Roots of Black August & George Jackson
Abolition is essential to the movement for liberation.
FREE PALESTINE: STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY, 2021