Miklat Miklat Zine
Miklat Miklat is an ongoing project about the concept of the City of Refuge (or Ir Miklat), scapegoating, and transformative justice. It includes an art installation with many iterations of…
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Transformative Justice: A Curriculum Guide by Project Nia
A curriculum designed to raise public awareness about transformative justice and to think critically about the prison industrial complex. Includes overview documents and activities with facilitation guides. Project Nia TJ…
Queer Transformative Justice Working Group’s Principles, Concerns, Strategies, Models
A piece by Queer Transformative Justice Working Group in Chicago that outlines four core principles to which a community can be accountable around issues of harm and violence. TJ PrinciplesDownload…
Harm Free Zone Project General Framework by New York Harm Free Zone Collective
This document outlines basic principles and practices used to imagine building community-based harm free zones in New York City. HFZ-NYDownload Learn more about Critical Resistance’s work in New York with…
Toward Transformative Justice Guide: A Liberatory Approach to Child Sexual Abuse & Others Forms of Intimate & Community Violence
A guidebook outlining Generation FIVE’s approach to transformative justice. The guide includes an overview of the theory and principles as well as tools for practicing transformative justice. “ A Call…
Girls Do What They Have to Do to Survive: Illuminating Methods Used by Girls in Sex Trade and Street Economy to Fight Back & Heal
This report was made by Young Women’s Empowerment Project. It reflects participatory research conducted by a group of youth and allies that lays out how girls who participate in sex…
Communities Engaged in Resisting Violence
A report outlining models, definitions, approaches, structures, and strategies used in Chicago to offer alternative models to approach interpersonal violence and state violence against women. By Ann Russo and Melissa…
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…
A Look Back at Critical Resistance South
By Kim Diehl To understand the power and significance of Critical Resistance South Conference and Strategy Session, we begin with its ending – a funeral for the prison industrial complex…
Art & Abolition
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, May 2016 Since the founding of Critical Resistance, we have modeled that cultural practice and art are critical components of the fight for prison industrial…