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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Sonali Kolhatkar of Yes! Magazine interviews Critical Resistance co-founder Ruthie Wilson Gilmore on her latest book, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Verso, 2022). The book is based on Gilmore’s numerous abolition-themed…
Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB)’s Brian Kaneda speaks with KPFA Radio about the CA Prison Closure Campaign’s September 2022 securing a court order to close California Correctional Center…
Christopher McMichael of New Frame reviews Ruthie Wilson Gilmore’s book Abolition Geography, where CR co-founder looks at crime, incarceration and alternatives that focus on social upliftment rather than the prison…
SACRAMENTO, CA – Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) released a statement Tuesday responding to Governor Newsom’s recent revisions to the 2022-2023 state budget.CURB is calling for Newsom to…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — California could be seeing a reduction in its number of prisons over the next three years as Governor Newsom’s May Revision outlined plans to close three…
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new budget proposal suggests California could close three more prisons in the next three years. Citing reductions in the number of people in prison, Newsom’s new budget…
For years, liberals have called for prisoners at Gitmo to be transferred to U.S. prisons. What if they don’t want to go? John Knefel of Truthout talks with CR’s Communications…
The Intercept interviewed CR’s Media & Communications Director Woods Ervin about wildfires in California, the impact on imprisoned people, and the fight to close 10 prisons in CA by 2025.…
Brian Kaneda of Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) wrote the following Op-Ed published in the Los Angeles Times. Read it in the LA Times here. The scheduled deactivation of California…
CR’s Abolishing Policing Resources are shared in this interview. Read Interview here…