Call for Volunteers: Support CR’s Prisoner Solidarity Efforts!
Critical Resistance (CR) is looking for volunteers to support with data entry to help us audit and update our list of ~10,000 imprisoned comrades! Volunteers who sign up will conduct…
Critical Resistance: Campaigns & Project Updates
As Critical Resistance develops strong and vibrant grassroots projects and campaigns for abolition, check out updates from our work in Portland, Los Angeles, New York City, Oakland and across the US.
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 …
Los Angeles, join the fight to close CA Prisons!
Support Outreach days outside
CA Rehabilitative Center (CRC) in Norco
Join us on Tuesday, October 10 for a training where you can learn how to support and plug into the …
Summer 2023 Updates & News!
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,…
Attica Means Fight Back: Reflecting on 52 years of Prisoner Rebellion
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 …
CA Prison Closure Organizers Meet with Legislators & Attend Statewide Quest for Democracy
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…
Celebrating 25 Years of Critical Resistance, Toward Abolitionist Horizons: May 2023 Fundraiser
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…
Building Worker Power for Abolition: International Workers’ Day 2023
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…