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…
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Prisoner Hunger Strikes
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, June 2013 On June 21, CR hosted the second Quarterly Donor Call of 2013 which focused on prisoner hunger strikes. During the call donors learned…
A World Without Walls: Stopping Harm & Abolishing the Prison Industrial Complex
Issue 16 of CR’s The Abolitionist Newspaper (printed in 2012) imagined life after the prison industrial complex is abolished. The following sample article below, leading accountability and anti-violence practitioners (Mimi…
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…
Nothing to Lose But Our Chains: Organizing Under Surveillance
Ashanti Alston and Masai Ehehosi with Molly Porzig From The Abolitionist No. 18: Surveillance Editors Note: In exploring the role of surveillance as a cornerstone of the prison industrial complex…
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…
Watching the Olympics: Understanding and Resisting Surveillance of Mass Events
From The Abolitionist No. 18: Surveillance By Isaac Ontiveros and Rachel Herzing These days, systems of surveillance are astoundingly complex, pervasive, and have extraordinary reach. Understanding surveillance helps us understand…
Improvising on Reality: The Roots of Prison Abolition by Liz Samuels
In this chapter of The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism by Dan Berger, Victoria Law, James Tracy, et al, former Critical Resistance member Liz Samuels examines the historic Attica Rebellion of 1971 and…
Art in Abolition: STIC Campaign & Image Analysis
CR Oakland member and Stop the Injunction Coalition organizer reflects on the ways in which CR has used art in our campaign to defeat gang injunctions in Oakland. Memory and…
The Abolitionist Newspaper Interviews Bonnie Kerness & Masai Ehehosi from ASFC on alternatives to the prison industrial complex
The following interview is from CR’s cross-wall newspaper, The Abolitionist, Issue 2, printed the summer of 2005. Learn more about the project and support it today with a paid subscription.…