Definitions: Fascism & Neoliberalism
Issue 34 of Critical Resistance’s The Abolitionist newspaper features articles on fascism and neoliberalism. In addition to several articles including an analysis of the rise of fascism in the US,…
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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…
Intro to the Prison Industrial Complex 101: Workshop
Intro to PIC full curriculumDownload PIC DefinitionDownload PIC-Abolition-Concentric-Circles-front-back-handoutDownload PIC101 words- NEW 2015!Download…
What’s Militarism Got to Do With It?
How does using the framework of militarism help understand war in its different forms? At a time when economic crisis has eclipsed issues of war, how does “militarism” mobilize the…
Build the Block Report: Developing Alternatives to Policing in the Arab & Muslim Community
This report is from CR co-founder and Build the Block engineer Rachel Herzing, focusing on the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC’s) work in Bay Area Arab and Muslim communities…
Toward Healthy Communities Now & Beyond COVID-19: A Platform for Abolition During the Pandemic by Critical Resistance
This site lays out a platform for COVID-19 emergency response in a way that supports freedom, health, and collective care, and actively resists the prison industrial complex in all its…
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Some Notes on the Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex
By Isaac Ontiveros On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex conference in 1998, the editors of the Abolitionist asked me 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…
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…
International Solidarity & Anti-Imperialist Resistance in the Post-Election Landscape
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, December 2016 As we reflect on, organize and prepare to fight against heightened repression of our communities during a Trump administration, we look to the current…