Critical Resistance (CR) is supporting campaign development with Atlanta-based movement partners to stop the expansion of policing by shutting down the GILEE program (Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange) through the…
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…
Through the Defund OPD Coalition, CR Oakland’s anti-policing workgroup has been working to cut the Oakland Police Department’s budget by 50%, and to ensure those funds are reinvested in much…
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…
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…
Critical Resistance Oakland is a founding member of Stop Urban Shield, a broad coalition of organizations that came together in 2013 to end Urban Shield, which was the largest SWAT…
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…
As Oakland boiled over with tensions, rage and grief after Oscar Grant III was killed by a transit cop, Critical Resistance Oakland formed Stop the Injunctions Coalition (STIC) in 2010…