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…
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Harm Free Zone Project General Framework by New York Harm Free Zone Collective
This document outlines basic principles and practices used to imagine building community-based harm free zones in New York City. New York Harm-Free Zone FrameworkDownload Learn more about Critical Resistance’s work…
Critical Resistance/INCITE! Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex
This statement was jointly written in 2001 to challenge the anti-violence and anti-prison movements to be more accountable to women of color and LGBT people of color who experience an…
The Knotted Line
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Unraveling the Fraying Edges of Zero Tolerance
Article by CR co-founder and long-time member Rachel Herzing, published in CounterPunch, on developments of Bratton’s policing strategy and how communities are resisting zero-tolerance measures. Read here.…
Our Oakland, Our Solutions: The Stop the Injunctions Coalition (STIC)
This is a chapter from the book Counter-Insurgency & Community Policing by Stop the Injunctions Coalition organizers and CR members. STIC Book ChapterDownload…
Policing Timeline
What are the origins of policing in the US and how has it developed throughout history? How best can we analyze this history to strengthen our organizing for abolition? Check…
Atlanta for Abolition: Dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex
How are communities in Atlanta resisting the prison industrial complex and organizing for abolition? Check out this brochure from CR’s Profiles in Abolition Project’s “Atlanta for Abolition,” an exhibit, event…
CR’s Abolition of Policing Workshop
Our Abolition of Policing Workshop is a 2-hour workshop that focuses on defining policing, analyzing the historical development of policing as a strategy of repression and ways communities have resisted…
Conferences as a Vehicle for Abolitionist Organizing
By Casey Goonan In a December 2018 webinar hosted by Critical Resistance, several co-founding members reflected on their participation in and experience with organizing national conferences at the turn of…