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Ashanti Alston and Masai Ehehosi with Molly Porzig From The Abolitionist No. 18: Surveillance Editors Note: In exploring the role of surveillance as a cornerstone of the prison industrial complex…
From The Abolitionist No. 18: Surveillance By Ian Alan Paul and David Zlutnick On January 25th, 2011, demonstrations erupted in cities across Egypt. Eighteen days later one of the world’s most-entrenched dictators…
From The Abolitionist No. 18: Surveillance By Isaac Ontiveros and Rachel Herzing These days, systems of surveillance are astoundingly complex, pervasive, and have extraordinary reach. Understanding surveillance helps us understand…
The Agreement to End Hostilities is a historic document of prisoner organizing and resistance, written in 2012 by the “Short Corridor Collective,” a multi-racial group of prisoners in Short Corridor…
For many of us, it isn’t news that today in America, there are around 2 million people in prison, and about 6.5 million people under some sort of supervision of…
While researching our next issue on prisoner resistance and strikes, we found this amazing rundown of media-reported prison actions that happened between 1970 and 1971. Download the high-res version here.…
In this chapter of The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism by Dan Berger, Victoria Law, James Tracy, et al, former Critical Resistance member Liz Samuels examines the historic Attica Rebellion of 1971 and…
CR Oakland member and Stop the Injunction Coalition organizer reflects on the ways in which CR has used art in our campaign to defeat gang injunctions in Oakland. Memory and…
Article written by Critical Resistance co-founder Rose Braz in 2006, published in October/November issue of Women, Girls & Criminal Justice. Kinder-Gentler-Gender-Responsive-CagesDownload…
The following interview is from CR’s cross-wall newspaper, The Abolitionist, Issue 2, printed the summer of 2005. Learn more about the project and support it today with a paid subscription.…