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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
CR Oakland organizer Kamau Walton speaks at a Justice for Alan Blueford rally in downtown Oakland…
Democracy Now’s coverage of the first Critical Resistance Conference in 1998, interviewing Angela Y. Davis. This weekend a conference is taking place at the University of California, Berkeley called Critical…