Oregon Prisoner Coalition
Out of our Portland chapter, CR is part of the Oregon Prisoner Coalition, a statewide coalition advocating for imprisoned people and organizing against imprisonment in Oregon. Currently CR is collaborating…
Critical Resistance Portland (CRPDX) is CR’s youngest chapter. Formed in 2013, CRPDX has most recently had two primary work areas: building with prisoners across Oregon State Prisons, and resisting policing in Portland through the Care Not Cops campaign.
CRPDX coordinated numerous volunteers to correspond with people imprisoned in Washington and Oregon prisons, and expanded correspondence work in a “Write Them All” campaign in 2020 to grow our prisoner mail program statewide.
After completing the “Write Them All” initiative, CR joined the Oregon Prisoner Coalition and collaborated on a Know Your Rights tool for Oregon prisoners and a general resource hub for imprisoned people. After a major victory through the Care Not Cops campaign in 2020–which cut $15 million from the police budget and eliminated the gang task force unit of Portland’s police department– CRPDX is currently considering building a new anti-policing campaign in Portland.
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Email: crpdx@criticalresistance.org
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Our Work
Prisoner Mail – CRPDX
Each month we gather virtually as a mail crew and volunteer team to host an open letter writing night to connect with folks looking to get involved with CRPDX. We…
Care Not Cops
From 2017 through its victory in 2020, Critical Resistance Portland (CRPDX) anchored the Care Not Cops (CNC) campaign with a group of Portland residents that was working to end the…
Care Not Cops Victory!
Working to reduce policing through the Care Not Cops campaign since 2017, CRPDX effectively pushed City Council to pass the 2020-21 Portland City budget in June 2020, with a $15 million cut from the proposed Portland Police Bureau budget, in addition to the 5.6% cut across all bureaus due to the COVID deficit. This included: The elimination of the Gun Violence Reduction Team, School Resource Officers, and PPB Transit Police, 8 positions cut from the Special Emergency Reaction Team, $2.8 million in cannabis tax dollars moved from the PPB budget and towards restorative justice grants, $4.8 million directed towards Street Response, $1 million diverted towards houseless-led participatory budgeting process.
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