The Role of Unions in Reducing Imprisonment
A labor organizing & campaign resource created by Critical Resistance January 2023 for Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB)’s CA Prison Closure campaign, to close at least 10 prisons…
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The Banned Books in Your State Prisons: Search Engine & Database by The Marshall Project
In December 2022, The Marshall Project released a useful online tool to search what books are banned in each state’s prison system. From The Marshall Project: Banned Books Database Book…
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…
A Resource Guide for Teaching & Learning Abolition (2020-21)
A Resource guide created by Critical Resistance’s Post-Secondary Abolitionist Educators Workgroup. Most useful for students, organizers and educators in post-secondary & higher-education institutions. CR_Guide for Teaching Learning AbolitionDownload…
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…
LA The Fire this Time: Uprising & Repression in LA
An Interview by CovertAction with Mike Davis, Summer 1992 Uprising-and-Repression-in-LA-Mike-DavisDownload…
Strategies for Cultivating Community Accountability by Ann Russo
A piece outlining practical strategies for supporting community accountability efforts based on work done through the Building Communities, Ending Violence project at DePaul University in Chicago. Read “Strategies for Cultivating…
Queer Transformative Justice Working Group’s Principles, Concerns, Strategies, Models
A piece by Queer Transformative Justice Working Group in Chicago that outlines four core principles to which a community can be accountable around issues of harm and violence. TJ PrinciplesDownload…
Girls Do What They Have to Do to Survive: Illuminating Methods Used by Girls in Sex Trade and Street Economy to Fight Back & Heal
This report was made by Young Women’s Empowerment Project. It reflects participatory research conducted by a group of youth and allies that lays out how girls who participate in sex…