Resistance to Trump: Abolition as a Powerful Weapon
January 27, 2017 Dear Friends, This past week has been tumultuous for communities everywhere. In his first few days in power, Trump has removed any doubts of whether he will…
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The Black Panther Party 10-Point Platform: Highlights Today
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, April 2017 Our first Donor Call of the year, “The Black Panther Party Ten Point Program: Highlights Today” featured contributors to the latest issue of The Abolitionist newspaper of the same theme. …
Beyond Attica: Toward a World Without Prisons
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, September 2016 The conversation, commemorating the 45th anniversary of the Attica Rebellion, highlights the legacy of prisoner-led organizing for freedom as well as the political and social…
Critical Thinking on Abolitionist Strategy
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, June 2016 The core of CR’s work is to push—through grassroots mobilizations, popular education, campaigns and coalition efforts—a reinvigorated common sense in which the key…
Surveillance & Resistance
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, March 2014 Our March 2014 donor call featured presentations by four amazing organizers on the manifestations, impacts, and logic of surveillance, as well as how…
A World Without Walls: Stopping Harm & Abolishing the Prison Industrial Complex
Issue 16 of CR’s The Abolitionist Newspaper (printed in 2012) imagined life after the prison industrial complex is abolished. The following sample article below, leading accountability and anti-violence practitioners (Mimi…
Nothing to Lose But Our Chains: Organizing Under Surveillance
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…
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…
Watching the Olympics: Understanding and Resisting Surveillance of Mass Events
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…
Calling the Bluff on “Gender-Responsive” Prisons by Ben Goldstein
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…