In 2023, Critical Resistance’s editorial collective for The Abolitionist Newspaper began an exciting collaboration with the Beyond Prisons Podcast to do a regular podcast show for each issue of The…
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 New York City (CRNYC)‘s Prisoner Mail Program corresponds with thousands of prisoners across the East Coast. In addition to exchanging thoughts and discussion about prison industrial complex (PIC)…
As part of the Abolish ICE New York New Jersey Coalition, Critical Resistance New York City (CRNYC) is working on passing the Dignity Not Detention Act to end the imprisonment…
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 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…
The Prisoner Solidarity Phone Lines are a volunteer-run initiative by Critical Resistance (CR) to build connections and support abolitionist organizing with imprisoned comrades. Our goal is to create political relationships…
In July 2017, we launched a reading group in a new type of partnership between CR Oakland members & volunteers and imprisoned activists & writers. The goal of the project…
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…
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity (PHSS) Coalition: In 2011 & 2013 when prisoners in the Short Corridor solitary confinement unit of Pelican Bay State Prison in CA started waves of hunger…