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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In the early 2000’s, Critical Resistance New York City and Community In Unity organized to successfully stop a proposed new jail from being built on a toxic site at Oak…
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…
In New York City, the Harm Free Zone Project was a collaboration between Critical Resistance’s New York chapter and the popular education collective La Escuela Popular Norteña in the early…