Hell Factories in the Field by Mike Davis
Published in The Nation, February 20, 1995. davismikehellfactories1995Download…
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“Here We Are, Amazingly Alive”: Holding Ourselves Together with an Ethic of Social Justice in Community Work
A radical social work approach to doing social justice work including ideas about staying alive in community work and resisting the individualism of “burnout,” by Cathy Richardson and Vikki Reynolds,…
Queer Transformative Justice Working Group’s Principles, Concerns, Strategies, Models
A piece by Queer Transformative Justice Working Group in Chicago that outlines four core principles to which a community can be accountable around issues of harm and violence. TJ PrinciplesDownload…
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…
From BART to SWAT: Reflection on Policing in Oakland
Before the Black Lives Matter Movement, Oakland was an epicenter for resisting policing. In 2009, Oakland rose up in response to consecutive years of police killings from the cases of…
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.…
Abolish the Police, Now!: OkayAfrica Interview with CR’s Mohamed Shehk
OkayAfrica’s Abel Shifferaw interviews CR’s Media and Communications Director, Mohamed Shehk about CR’s work and building a movement to abolish policing. Read the article 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…
Big Dreams and Bold Steps Towards a Police Free Future
Big Dreams & Bold Steps by Rachel HerzingDownload…