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.
Dear Los Angeles comrades,
Critical Resistance’s Los Angeles chapter (CRLA) has been hard at work getting reorganized and plugging in more to the statewide campaign for prison closure with Californians…
Whether it was celebrating 25 years of Critical Resistance (CR) with a large fundraiser and panel in May, propelling our prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist campaign and project work forward,…
This week this year marks the 52nd anniversary of the Attica Rebellion—when from September 9-13, 1971, about 1,300 prisoners rose up in resistance against horrible prison conditions. In solidarity with…
For years, Washington prisoners have used Cultural Awareness Groups (CAGs) (CAGs) as spaces for collective growth, liberation, healing practices, and inside-out organizing with local partners like Liberation Media NW and…
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…
Over the last year, the Portland chapter of Critical Resistance has been engaged in assessments of our work, the shifts in the prison industrial complex (PIC) locally, and how we…
Toward the end of May, Critical Resistance joined our longtime movement partners with Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) in Sacramento to amplify and advocate for the demands of…
Happy Mamas’ Day from Critical Resistance (CR)!
Mamas, aunties, and caretakers have been the back bone of abolition for generations.
According to Prison Policy Initiative and Interrupting Criminalization:
Almost 1…
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…
Stephen Wilson, prolific writer and abolitionist educator locked up in Pennsylvania— who is a dear comrade of Critical Resistance and a columnist of our newspaper, The Abolitionist— has been getting…