Standing Up for Communities: Why We Need a Police-Free Future
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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…
Policing Timeline
What are the origins of policing in the US and how has it developed throughout history? How best can we analyze this history to strengthen our organizing for abolition? Check…
Toward the Abolition of Imprisonment: Dismantling Jails
How and why are jail fights a crucial part of the movement for abolition? Critical Resistance has focused on fighting jails specifically, because jails are an integral component in the…
Atlanta for Abolition: Dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex
How are communities in Atlanta resisting the prison industrial complex and organizing for abolition? Check out this brochure from CR’s Profiles in Abolition Project’s “Atlanta for Abolition,” an exhibit, event…
People’s Report: No New Jail in San Francisco
How does jailing and criminalization impact San Francisco? Check out this report CR compiled for No New SF Jail Coalition No New SF Jail People’s ReportDownload…
CR’s Abolition of Policing Workshop
Our Abolition of Policing Workshop is a 2-hour workshop that focuses on defining policing, analyzing the historical development of policing as a strategy of repression and ways communities have resisted…
Interview with Empty Cages Collective (UK)
At the 2018 International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA) held in London, Critical Resistance was introduced to the UK based prison abolitionist organization Empty Cages Collective. We are grateful to…
On Trump’s Pro-Policing Executive Orders
February 10, 2017 Yesterday, on the heels of swearing in Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, Trump signed three executive orders that bolster, back, and expand the authority of law enforcement…
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…