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,…
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Access to Healthcare & PIC Abolition
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, May 2015 In a time when communities of color are increasingly occupied by police, when Black people are imprisoned at 6 times the rate of…
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…
Lincoln Detox Center: The People’s Drug Program
Interview with Vicente “Panama” Alba, by Molly Porzig What was the Lincoln Detox Center? How did it start and why? This article is a sneak peek from The Abolitionist No. 19: Mental…
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…
Agreement to End Hostilities
The Agreement to End Hostilities is a historic document of prisoner organizing and resistance, written in 2012 by the “Short Corridor Collective,” a multi-racial group of prisoners in Short Corridor…