Sneak Peek into Issue 35: One Year Later…
This three-angle interview reflecting on abolitionist organizing in the last year since the murder of George Floyd was published in Issue 35 of The Abolitionist in July, 2021. With a…
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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…
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?…
Defund Policing Website
In 2020, Critical Resistance worked with Community Resource Hub, Movement for Black Lives, Interrupting Criminalization, Freedom Labs (PolicyLink, BYP100, Center for Popular Democracy, and Law for Black Lives), Database for Police Abolition, ACRE, Advancement Project, Alliance for Educational Justice, and Black…
Abolition Requires Disability Justice
The following article is a sample from Issue 33 of The Abolitionist which features pieces on the COVID-19 pandemic and introduces the newspaper’s new structure, including a section of new,…
Our Communities, Our Solutions: An Organizer’s Toolkit for Developing Campaigns to Abolish Policing
How do we abolish policing? As demands to defund the police become more and more popular, how do we ensure these calls further on-the-ground work toward a vision of prison…
LA The Fire this Time: Uprising & Repression in LA
An Interview by CovertAction with Mike Davis, Summer 1992 Uprising-and-Repression-in-LA-Mike-DavisDownload…
Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence
This collection encapsulates a decade of local and national initiatives led by or inspired by allied social movements that reflect the complexities of integrating the theory and practice of community accountability.…
Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities
A widely circulated and used 100+ page zine, The Revolution Starts at Home is a collection of stories and tools for community accountability addressing interpersonal harm within social justice movements…
CR’s Abolitionist Toolkit
CR National members made this toolkit in 2004. In this toolkit, you will find CR’s early ideas on the prison industrial complex and abolition, along with political education and organizing…