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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Roadmap for Prison Closure: Close California Prisons now!
On January 12, 2023, Critical Resistance and Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) released a roadmap for prison closure in California, outlining a decarceral just transition framework to close…
So is this actually an abolitionist strategy or proposal? Resource Binder
Collected by Interrupting Criminalization, Project Nia & Critical Resistance. Assembled for the Summer 2022 Allied Media Conference. The cover artwork was created by Micah Bazant, with binder design by Beck…
Hell Factories in the Field by Mike Davis
Published in The Nation, February 20, 1995. davismikehellfactories1995Download…
On the Road Toward Freedom: An Abolitionist Assessment of Pretrial & Bail Reforms
In collaboration with Community Justice Exchange, Critical Resistance developed this toolkit to help organizers assess and move various efforts reforming pretrial and bail policy and practice towards prison industrial complex…
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…
Abolition is Essential: Organizing Against the PIC in the Face of Pandemic
A Critical Resistance Donor Webinar, April 2021. One year into the pandemic, we are eager to hear from our comrades and fellow movement-builders: What has this past year looked like?…
Creative Interventions Toolkit: An Invitation & Practical Guide for Everyone to Stop Violence
Very extensive toolkit by Creative Interventions (nearly 600 pages). This toolkit lays out all of Creative Intervention’s strategies, steps, tools and lessons for intervening in situations of interpersonal harm. Thorough…
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…