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…
CRNYC Prisoner Mail Program
Critical Resistance New York City (CRNYC)‘s Prisoner Mail Program corresponds with thousands of prisoners in the Northeast. In addition to exchanging thoughts and discussion about prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition,…
Dignity Not Detention
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…
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…
Inside-Outside Reading Group for The Abolitionist Newspaper
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…
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity (PHSS) Coalition: In 2013 when prisoners in the Short Corridor solitary confinement unit of Pelican Bay State Prison in CA started waves of hunger strikes that…
Attica Interview Project
The Attica Interview Project was initiated by Critical Resistance to support prison closure organizing in New York. Through oral history and organizing we seek to document the continued legacy of…
Critical Resistance Radio
Critical Resistance Spreading Abolition on the Air! From 2002-2007, Critical Resistance’s Oakland chapter joined forced with KPFA’s HardKnock Radio (KPFA 94.1, KPFB 89.3 in Berkeley and KFCF 88.1 in…