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…
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Issue 34 Sneak Peek: Finding Our Way Forward – Past Neoliberalism, Austerity, Fascism, and the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC)
Note: This article was written in the winter of 2021 for Issue 34 of The Abolitionist newspaper, and serves as a central analysis piece grounding the entire issue. The Abolitionist …
Abolition Requires Disability Justice
The following article is a sample from Issue 33 of The Abolitionist which features pieces on the COVID-19 pandemic and introduces the newspaper’s new structure, including a section of new,…
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…
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…
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Some Notes on the Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex
By Isaac Ontiveros On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex conference in 1998, the editors of the Abolitionist asked me to…
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…
Words Across Walls: Discussing Modes of Communication with TGIJP and Calls From Home
Shared organizing across prison walls comes with its own unique difficulties, especially with regard to maintaining networks of communication. Relationships between imprisoned and non-imprisoned people are stifled at once by…