Resisting Torture: Refusing to Surrender
An article from Issue 40 of The Abolitionist Newspaper by Molly Porzig with Marie Levin and “Comrade Pops” about Critical Resistance’s work in the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity coalition supporting…
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Toward Abolitionist Horizons: Celebrating 25 Years of Critical Resistance
On May 5, 2023, Critical Resistance hosted a benefit event in San Francisco, California to celebrate 25 years of Critical Resistance and the struggle to abolish the prison industrial complex.…
Issue 37 Inside-Outside Fishing Line Column: Speaking Truth to The People – Building a Mass Movement against the Prison Industrial Complex With Current and Former Political Prisoners
By Lawrence Jenkins & Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin with Garrett Felber This article is a column from CR’s The Abolitionist Newspaper, the Inside-Outside Fishing Line, for Issue 38 on labor struggles…
What’s the Call? FREE THEM ALL: Organizing to Liberate Political Prisoners
For the Winter 2021 issue of The Abolitionis, Issue 36 on “Pathways toward Freedom,” or strategies for getting people out of cages, Critical Resistance’s Ian Baran from The Abolitionist Editorial Collective interviewed former…
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…
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…
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. HFZ-NYDownload Learn more about Critical Resistance’s work in New York with…
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.…