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By Mohamed Shehk The following article is a feature action piece from Issue 36 of Critical Resistance’s The Abolitionist newspaper, printed in December 2021. The issue features “Pathways toward Freedom,”…
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 …
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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.…