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.
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… This Mother’s Day, Critical Resistance sends our solidarity and fortitude to all the mothers, aunties, grandmothers, caregivers, and those who love them. We celebrate and uplift all the mothers and… 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.… 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… About the Abolition & the University Teach-in Series
The unprecedented protests and grassroots organizing against anti-Black police and white vigilante violence has generated demands to end systemic racism endemic across… 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… Numerous organizations across our movement to abolish the prison industrial complex have been fighting tirelessly to “Free Them All For Public Health,” as more and more the COVID crisis reveals…
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
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!
2 NEW TOOLS: ADVICE VIDEO AND DEFUND POLICING WEBSITE!
JOIN US THURSDAY, OCT 15 FOR STRAIGHT OUT OF CONFINEMENT, AN ABOLITION NOW NETWORK WEBINAR!
ABOLITION & THE UNIVERSITY: TEACH-IN SERIES
Resist Policing Summer 2020 Newsletter: Cooking Up Rebellion
July 2020 Newsletter: Fight Like Hell–Against Imprisonment & Caging