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 …
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…
Looking Back, Looking Forward On 25 Years of Critical Resistance – Toward Abolitionist Horizons!
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…
Job Opening with Building People Power: Capital Campaign Manager in North Oakland, CA
Building People Power (BPP) is developing a vacant 9,000 square foot building at 4400 Telegraph Ave in Oakland, CA into a center for political organizing and education, and community building. …
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This year marks 25 years since Critical Resistance’s inaugural conference “Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex” in 1998, where thousands of people came together to challenge what we now
…Abolition Feminism NOW! & International Women’s Day
This international women’s day, we hold up the light of abolition feminism to make sense of this moment and continue forging a path forward. As the distance between the haves…
#StopCopCity: Resist Policing in Atlanta & Defend the ATL Forest
Situated within a wave of increased training proposed across the country and a rise in police killings nationally since 2020, the now two-year struggle in Atlanta to stop Cop City,…
On a Deadly Rise: The Need for Winning Abolitionist Campaigns to Stop Police Violence & Build a World Without Policing
– Critical Resistance reflects on the current landscape of policing in 2023 and recommends what is to be done – After the largest protests in US history, we see…
Intern to Fellow: Announcing CR’s New 2023 Prisoner Correspondence Fellowship!
Critical Resistance is excited to announce that we have hired a one-year Prisoner Correspondence Fellow to support our chapter-based Prison Mail Programs, deepen opportunities for participation and leadership of imprisoned…