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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Fighting Toxic Prisons: Restoring Land and Lives
The following is an interview with Craig Gilmore, Emily Posner, Sylvia Ryerson, Judah Schept and Panagioti Tsolkas. In 1999, Critical Resistance entered the campaign to fight the Delano II prison…
Love and Protect’s Reflection on the INCITE! – CR Statement Against Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex
By Rachel Caïdor In 2001, INCITE! and Critical Resistance laid down a network of strong roots in the form of the visionary Statement Against Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex.…
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…
Critical Resistance: 20 Years of Strategy and Struggle for Abolition
The following is a transcription of the conversation between Angela Y. Davis, Linda Evans, Kamau Walton, and Mary Hooks that took place at Critical Resistance’s twenty-year anniversary event on December…
Critical Resistance Conference History
A CR Donor Webinar, December 2018 On Friday December 14, 2018 we hosted a special donor webinar on Critical Resistance (CR) conferences since 1998. Planners and organizing committee members reflected…
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…
Organizing Across Prison Walls is How We’ll Bring Them Down
By Felix Rosado and Layne Mullett On June 6, 2015, around 300 people crowded into the Mosaic Community Church in West Philadelphia to launch a campaign to end death by…
Sneak Peek into Issue #30 of The Abolitionist!
Check out and share this beautiful, concise, and politically sharp resource titled, “How People on the Outside Can Support the Political Work of People on the Inside,” written by imprisoned…
CR at ICOPA 2018: Resources and Information
Critical Resistance presented 3 workshops at the 2018 International Conference On Penal Abolition in London. Resources from CR workshops are also available below for your use. Abolitionist Strategy & Vision – …