The Economy of Incarceration: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Co-Founder Ruth Gilmore speaks on The Economy of Incarceration on The Laura Flanders Show Video Description from The Laura Flanders Show: What do the conservative Koch Industries, the liberal Ford…
CR in the News
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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Opinion: Against Policing
CR Members Share Powerful Thoughts Against Policing What would a transformative response be to the trooper who sent 50,000 volts into Macadam Mason’s undefended chest? How does a prison abolitionist…
A Brutal Beating Wakes Attica’s Ghosts
Content Warning: details of physical abuse to prisoners Read Article Here…
Urban Shield reignites militarization debate in Oakland
Activists denounce police weapons expo, recalling Oscar Grant and Michael Brown Local community organizations protested the event last year, citing the Oakland Police Department’s history of violence in the community.“Oakland…
Grassroots Resistance as ‘Police Militarization’ Expo Descends on Oakland
While world watches US law enforcement, ‘Urban Shield’ brings defense contractors, law enforcement agencies, and SWAT teams for war games and arms trade Sustained resistance in Ferguson, Missouri — in…
How the US militarizes the world’s police, not just Ferguson’s
On Aug. 9, a white police officer named Darren Wilson shot and killed an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.Since then, the world has watched the streets…
Stop the McFarland GEO women’s prison!: Open Letter from Prisoners & Action Announcement
This contains two articles in one: An Open Letter from people imprisoned in CA women’s prisons and CA Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) and an action announcement for Statewide rally…
Viewpoints: Why is California trying to build more jails?
When we first saw this year’s proposed corrections budget included $500 million for new jail expansion, we had to double-check the document to see what year it was.In December, at the…
Fruitvale Community Garden allowed to remain in Oakland
Community members work in the Fruitvale community garden on Foothill Boulevard near Mitchell Street in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, April 17, 2014. The garden on public land is one of…
From Brooklyn to Oakland, Rest in Power Kimani Gray & Alan BluefordFrom Brooklyn to Oakland
CR Oakland organizer Kamau Walton speaks at a Justice for Alan Blueford rally in downtown Oakland…