How to Stop a Jail in Your Town
Want to learn how to stop jail expansion? Check out this extensive compilation of organizing resources coordinated by CA United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), a coalition in CA fighting…
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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…
What are ‘Gender Responsive’ Jails & Why Are We Against Them?
A flyer made by Critical Resistance Los Angeles for LA No More Jails Coalition (2004-2018) in the fight to stop jail expansion.…
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…
Militarization of Police
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, September 2015 While the roots of policing in the United States are closely linked the capture of escaped slaves, and the enforcement of Black Codes,…
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…
Legal and Grassroots Approaches to Fighting the PIC
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, October 2013 On October 4, CR hosted our third Quarterly Donor Call of 2013. The call explored the opportunities and challenges involved in combining legal…
Militarization & the PIC
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, February 2013 On February 15, CR hosted our first Quarterly Donor Call of 2013. During the call we explored the issue of militarism and the…
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…