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Dear Los Angeles comrades,
Critical Resistance’s Los Angeles chapter (CRLA) has been hard at work getting reorganized and plugging in more to the statewide campaign for prison closure with Californians… 
Los Angeles: Critical Resistance Summer & Fall 2023 updates!
Support CRLA’s *new* Prisoner Mail Program
& Join Our Monthly Volunteer Nights!
Critical Resistance commits to regular prisoner correspondence in order to build strong political relationships with people locked up inside prisons, jails, and detention centers. Through prisoner mail …
Join us on Tuesday, October 10 for a training where you can learn how to support and plug into the …
Whether it was celebrating 25 years of Critical Resistance (CR) with a large fundraiser and panel in May, propelling our prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist campaign and project work forward,…
This week this year marks the 52nd anniversary of the Attica Rebellion—when from September 9-13, 1971, about 1,300 prisoners rose up in resistance against horrible prison conditions. In solidarity with…
Prison industrial complex abolition as a political ideology and practice has opened up more space for our movements to make powerful gains against policing, imprisonment, and state violence, especially as “abolition” and demands to defund policing and other carceral institutions …
Toward the end of May, Critical Resistance joined our longtime movement partners with Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) in Sacramento to amplify and advocate for the demands of…
Dear Friends & Comrades of Critical Resistance (CR), Thank you so much to everyone who joined us in-person or online for Toward Abolitionist Horizons, a benefit celebrating 25 years…
This International Workers’ Day, Critical Resistance celebrates recent advances in the labor movement and the necessary growth in ties to the fight for prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition. We have…
Join us May 5 in-person at San Francisco State University or online via livestream for “Toward Abolitionist Horizons: 25 Years of Critical Resistance,” an evening of discussion and performances, looking…