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…
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No New Jails Los Angeles: Jail Fight Info Packet
Information packet from LA No New Jails and Justice LA’s multi-year fight to stop jail expansion in Los Angeles County (2018). LA-Jail-Fight-Packet_final2018Download…
The Black Panther Party 10-Point Platform: Highlights Today
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, April 2017 Our first Donor Call of the year, “The Black Panther Party Ten Point Program: Highlights Today” featured contributors to the latest issue of The Abolitionist newspaper of the same theme. …
Beyond Attica: Toward a World Without Prisons
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, September 2016 The conversation, commemorating the 45th anniversary of the Attica Rebellion, highlights the legacy of prisoner-led organizing for freedom as well as the political and social…
Critical Thinking on Abolitionist Strategy
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, June 2016 The core of CR’s work is to push—through grassroots mobilizations, popular education, campaigns and coalition efforts—a reinvigorated common sense in which the key…
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…
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…
Prison Struggle 1970-71
While researching our next issue on prisoner resistance and strikes, we found this amazing rundown of media-reported prison actions that happened between 1970 and 1971. Download the high-res version here.…
Improvising on Reality: The Roots of Prison Abolition by Liz Samuels
In this chapter of The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism by Dan Berger, Victoria Law, James Tracy, et al, former Critical Resistance member Liz Samuels examines the historic Attica Rebellion of 1971 and…
Art in Abolition: STIC Campaign & Image Analysis
CR Oakland member and Stop the Injunction Coalition organizer reflects on the ways in which CR has used art in our campaign to defeat gang injunctions in Oakland. Memory and…