
System Failures or Intended Outcomes: Journalist, Lawyer, and Justice Advocate Share Their Thoughts
CR’s Abolishing Policing Resources are shared in this interview. Read Interview here…
In building strong campaigns and projects to abolish the prison industrial complex, Critical Resistance organizers often pressure and mobilize mainstream media to cover the struggle. Often, Critical Resistance is also contacted by the Press to give statements and offer our expertise on different issues surfacing in the News concerning the prison industrial complex and abolition.
Check out how Critical Resistance has been making News in the articles and links below.
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CR’s Abolishing Policing Resources are shared in this interview. Read Interview here…
The Meyer Memorial Trust has awarded nearly $1.3 million to 11 Black-led and Black-serving organizations, citing the urgent need to proclaim that Black lives matter. It was the inaugural round…
In the midst of nationwide uprisings against ongoing police murders of Black people, a new set of demands has been thrust into public consciousness: Defund and abolish the police, and invest in…
María Lugones, presente! A feminist philosopher who combined influential scholarship on gender, race and the legacy of colonialism with decades of work as a social activist in Latin America and…
On June 2, for the first time in 25 years, the Bureau of Prisons directed all federal jails and prisons to implement a full lockdown, confining nearly 160,000 people to…
An interview with anthropologist Christen A. Smith refers to Critical Resistance, provides insights into resisting police violence and creating safe societies for people of African descent. Read the Interview here…
NEW JERSEY — After months of action by immigrant rights organizers, the Elberon Development Group has decided to cut ties with their tenant, CoreCivic and their property, the Elizabeth Detention…
Two arguments now entering the mainstream—that incarceration is an urgent public health crisis and that policing takes needed resources from communities—have long been argued by abolitionist organizers. “Abolition is about fighting…
CR’s definition of the prison industrial complex is referred to in this article on organizing in Ontario, Canada to close Thunder Bay jail. Read Article Here…