Big Dreams and Bold Steps Towards a Police Free Future
Big Dreams & Bold Steps by Rachel HerzingDownload…
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Standing Up for Communities: Why We Need a Police-Free Future
Standing Up for Communities: Truthout ArticleDownload…
Fighting Toxic Prisons: Restoring Land and Lives
The following is an interview with Craig Gilmore, Emily Posner, Sylvia Ryerson, Judah Schept and Panagioti Tsolkas. In 1999, Critical Resistance entered the campaign to fight the Delano II prison…
Words Across Walls: Discussing Modes of Communication with TGIJP and Calls From Home
Shared organizing across prison walls comes with its own unique difficulties, especially with regard to maintaining networks of communication. Relationships between imprisoned and non-imprisoned people are stifled at once by…
Interview with Empty Cages Collective (UK)
At the 2018 International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA) held in London, Critical Resistance was introduced to the UK based prison abolitionist organization Empty Cages Collective. We are grateful to…
#KeepPJHome: Abolitionists Against the Deportation Crisis
By Nate Tan This year has proven to be a uniquely dangerous year for Southeast Asian Americans facing deportation. On April 3, 2018 the largest deportation of Khmer Americans resulted…
Oakland Power Projects – Health Resources
The Anti-Policing Health Workers Cohort aims to increase resistance to the every-day violence of policing, strengthen people’s skills to respond to community health needs in ways that minimize police contact,…
Networking Rebellion: Digital Policing and Revolt in the Arab Uprisings
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…
Improvising on Reality: The Roots of Prison Abolition by Liz Samuels
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…
Kinder, Gentler & Gender-Responsive Cages: Prison Expansion is Not Prison Reform by Rose Braz (2006)
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…