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…
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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…
Prison Struggle 1970-71
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.…
Art in Abolition: STIC Campaign & Image Analysis
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…
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…
Reflections on Critical Resistance: From Critical Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex, Social Justice Journal Vol. 27
Dylan Rodriguez and Nancy Stoller interview four members of Critical Resistance’s original conference organizing committee – Bo Brown, Terry Kupers, Andrea Smith, and Julia Sudbury – on the organizing and…