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Dear Critical Resistance friends,Through collaborations with over 75 organizations and groups already this year, Critical Resistance (CR) continues to make abolition irresistible. We’ve done over 100 workshops and presentations this…
In this period of astonishing energy and public discussion about the state of policing, detention, imprisonment, sentencing, and surveillance, CR is excited to release this new video series, Breaking Down…
October 7, 2016
Two weeks ago we learned about the tragic death of Tawon Boyd, a 21 year old Black man from Baltimore. Tawon had been violently attacked by the…
May 13, 2016
Dear Friends,
This Sunday, May 15 marks the 68th anniversary of the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” when the state of Israel was created in 1948. Driven by the…
Our latest issue of The Abolitionist Newspaper has finally arrived! Issue 27 is themed around the Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the…
January 18, 2017
Dear Friends,
It is with great joy that we welcome yesterday’s news that longtime Puerto Rican freedom fighter and political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera, as well as…
Check out some of CR’s 2016 work and collaborative projects offered here as examples and resources to further our fight together to abolish the prison industrial complex.
Reports and Interviews…
Below is a look back at the amazing work of our local chapters in 2016. It has been a humbling and inspiring year. Thank you for your support!
Critical…
November 24, 2016
To protectors of the land, indigenous freedom fighters, and defenders against colonialism: we stand in joint struggle with you as our work for abolition of the prison…
on On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, Delegation Affirms Solidarity with Palestinian People
Activists, including a Critical Resistance member, a CR co-founder, and a member of our Community Advisory, recently released this…