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…
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…
Freedom Fridays: Building People Power in North Oakland
Freedom Fridays is a monthly socially-distanced community event series at 4400 Telegraph Ave (in the back lot on 44th) where we put prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition into practice through…
LEAD Project
CR Los Angeles (CRLA) & A New Way of Life: The Leadership, Education, Action & Dialogue (LEAD) Project— A radical political education, leadership development and re-entry program for women coming…
La Casita Project
For years, Critical Resistance New York City and women from the La Casita program did radical political education together, tended to a community garden space in the Bronx, and, with…
Story Telling & Organizing Project (STOP)
The StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP) is a community project started by Creative Interventions. Through STOP, Creative Interventions supported numerous organizations internationally to collect and share stories about everyday…
Dismantle Change Build Center
About DCBC The Dismantle, Change, Build Center (DCBC) is was a space that served as a home base for community organizing in NE Portland, located at 14 NE Killingsworth…
Breaking Down the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) Video Project
In this period of astonishing energy and public discussion about the state of policing, detention, imprisonment, sentencing, and surveillance, CR is excited to release this new video series, Breaking Down…
Oakland Power Projects
After participating in over ten years of anti-policing work in Oakland, Critical Resistance launched the Oakland Power Projects (OPP) in 2015 in order to build Oakland’s capacity to resist the…
CR Oakland Prisoner Mail Program
Since the early 2000’s Critical Resistance Oakland (CR Oakland) has been corresponding with thousands of imprisoned loved ones and comrades in prisons, jails, and detention centers across the US (and…