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.
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… Critical Resistance New York City chapter (CRNYC) has been hard at work over the past few months to propel the Dignity Not Detention campaign forward with the Abolish ICE New… Join us May 5 in-person at San Francisco State University or online via livestream for “Toward Abolitionist Horizons: 25 Years of Critical Resistance,” an evening of discussion and performances, looking… Join Critical Resistance LA (CRLA) on Saturday, December 10 for a community event building LA presence and power in the statewide fight to close 10 CA prisons by 2025, and… Big, big thank you to those who joined us in New York on Saturday October 15, whether in person or in spirit, to celebrate the re-launch of Critical Resistance New… 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 (CR) and Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) invite you to Freedom Friday!
When: 3-7pm on Friday August 27, 2021
Where: 4400 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA
* FREE *… We at Critical Resistance are excited to present our newest release – On the Road to Freedom – a toolkit we’ve created in partnership with Community Justice Exchange. This toolkit… Your gifts will help essential organizing against imprisonment.
Following successful 2019 and 2020 victories with coalitions against local jail expansion, CR Oakland and Los Angeles chapters have eagerly joined… 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…
CA Prop 36 Endangers Abolitionist Gains in the Golden State
CR New York gains ground to Cancel ICE contracts in New York State once and for all!
Looking Back, Looking Forward On 25 Years of Critical Resistance – Toward Abolitionist Horizons!
Closing Cages, Building Power: Join Critical Resistance in Los Angeles on December 10!
CRNYC ReLaunch Success: THANK YOU!
Abolition is a Feminist Politic: On Abortion Bans & Racialized Gender-Based Violence
AUGUST UPDATES FROM CR OAKLAND: JOIN US FOR FREEDOM FRIDAY THIS WEEK!
ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM: AN ABOLITIONIST ASSESSMENT OF PRETRIAL AND BAIL REFORMS
FUND CARE NOT CAGES!
July 2020 Newsletter: Fight Like Hell–Against Imprisonment & Caging