Beyond Criminal Courts
In 2022, Critical Resistance, Interrupting Criminalization and Community Justice Exchange created a new toolkit and online resource hub for resisting criminalization through courts and the court system. The “Beyond Criminal…
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So is this actually an abolitionist strategy or proposal? Resource Binder
Collected by Interrupting Criminalization, Project Nia & Critical Resistance. Assembled for the Summer 2022 Allied Media Conference. The cover artwork was created by Micah Bazant, with binder design by Beck…
Sneak Peek into Issue 37: Intersecting Movements for Housing Justice & PIC Abolition
The following article is the feature analysis of Issue 37 of The Abolitionist (printed June 2022), an interview with Critical Resistance (CR) member and Senior Organizer of Communications at Right…
Abortion Decriminalization is Part of the Larger Struggle Against Policing & Criminalization by Interrupting Criminalization
A toolkit for resisting the criminalization of abortions and reproductive agency by Interrupting Criminalization and Beyond Do No Harm Coalition partners (May 2022). Decriminalize+AbortionDownload…
Hell Factories in the Field by Mike Davis
Published in The Nation, February 20, 1995. davismikehellfactories1995Download…
Closing Cages: The People’s Plan for Prison Closure in California
By Mohamed Shehk The following article is a feature action piece from Issue 36 of Critical Resistance’s The Abolitionist newspaper, printed in December 2021. The issue features “Pathways toward Freedom,”…
What’s the Call? FREE THEM ALL: Organizing to Liberate Political Prisoners
For the Winter 2021 issue of The Abolitionis, Issue 36 on “Pathways toward Freedom,” or strategies for getting people out of cages, Critical Resistance’s Ian Baran from The Abolitionist Editorial Collective interviewed former…
Sneak Peek into Issue 35: One Year Later…
This three-angle interview reflecting on abolitionist organizing in the last year since the murder of George Floyd was published in Issue 35 of The Abolitionist in July, 2021. With a…
On the Road Toward Freedom: An Abolitionist Assessment of Pretrial & Bail Reforms
In collaboration with Community Justice Exchange, Critical Resistance developed this toolkit to help organizers assess and move various efforts reforming pretrial and bail policy and practice towards prison industrial complex…
Defund Policing Website
In 2020, Critical Resistance worked with Community Resource Hub, Movement for Black Lives, Interrupting Criminalization, Freedom Labs (PolicyLink, BYP100, Center for Popular Democracy, and Law for Black Lives), Database for Police Abolition, ACRE, Advancement Project, Alliance for Educational Justice, and Black…