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.
Support CR’s annual Prisoner Solidarity Postcard writing events!
Each year, CR sends postcards to over 8,000 of our imprisoned comrades across the country as a way to send encouragement, strength,…
Dear Los Angeles and Southern California based friends of Critical Resistance,
We’re happy to share that Critical Resistance (CR) has been steadily working to strengthen our Los Angeles… Join Critical Resistance Los Angeles (CRLA) in Korea Town on Saturday, December 10 for our chapter’s re-launch community event, supporting the latest release of The Abolitionist Newspaper (#38) on labor struggles & prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition, and connecting Los 
Support Our Annual Prisoner Solidarity Holiday Postcard Mailing!
CR Los Angeles Updates & December Event for The Abolitionist & Prison Closure Fight!
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After securing a court order for CA Correctional Center (CCC) in Susanville to close, Critical Resistance is working to expedite CCC’s closure as part of our work with Californians United…
Critical Resistance Oakland and Los Angeles’s campaign with Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) to #CloseCAPrisons has been making some game-changing headway in the past few months. After we…
What is CR’s Prisoner Solidarity Phone Line? As a political organization working to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC), CR has a practice of taking prisoners’ phone calls as…
In July, over 100 Californians joined Building Power Across Walls To #CloseCAPrisons, a statewide online information session for the California prison closure campaign. In July, over 100 Californians joined Building…
As we progress through the 11th anniversary of the CA prisoner hunger strikes against solitary confinement, where tens of thousands of prisoners across CA joined forces to challenge the use…
…Why are Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) and Critical Resistance (CR) fighting to close 10 prisons by 2025? What are we doing to ensure that we win and that resources are being invested in the life-affirming infrastructure all
On Wednesday, May 11, 2022, dozens of Californians rallied outside the CA State Capitol Building for the Governor’s revised state budget to demand more closures to California’s prisons. …