HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!
This Mother’s Day, Critical Resistance sends our solidarity and fortitude to all the mothers, aunties, grandmothers, caregivers, and those who love them. We celebrate and uplift all the mothers and…
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 friends and fellow travelers,
The challenges, loss and hardship of 2020 motivated us to organize with urgency, responsiveness and solidarity. As health, economic, and political crises escalated, abolition… On March 30, 2020, Critical Resistance and a powerful cast of movement partners came together for “Organizing Against Toxic Imprisonment in the Face of Covid-19,” a webinar rapidly organized to… On March 30, 2020, Critical Resistance and a powerful cast of movement partners came together for “Organizing Against Toxic Imprisonment in the Face of Covid-19,” a webinar rapidly organized to bring us all together and prepare to fight …
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2020 IS HERE!
NATIONAL EVENT APRIL 13, 2021: ABOLITION IS ESSENTIAL — ORGANIZING AGAINST THE PIC IN THE FACE OF COVID-19
Issue 34 Sneak Peek: Finding Our Way Forward – Past Neoliberalism, Austerity, Fascism, and the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC)
Note: This article was written in the winter of 2021 for Issue 34 of The Abolitionist newspaper, and serves as a central analysis piece grounding the entire issue. The Abolitionist …
Hot off the Press: The Abolitionist Issue 34, Winter 2021!
We are thrilled to announce that our winter issue of The Abolitionist (#34) has gone to print and is currently being mailed out to about 5,000 subscribers, 4500 of whom…
2 NEW TOOLS: ADVICE VIDEO AND DEFUND POLICING WEBSITE!
New “Advice to New Abolitionists” Video by Rachel Herzing In 2020, we saw one of the biggest waves of people identifying as abolitionist and calling for abolition in different ways.…
Join us for a celebration of Issue 33 of our inside-outside newspaper The Abolitionist, which Critical Resistance sends to thousands of prisoners.
Come learn about the project, a 16-year long source of radical political education for prisoners, and listen
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ABOLITIONIST STEPS TO END IMPRISONMENT – NEW ORGANIZING RESOURCE
Critical Resistance is pleased to offer a brand new anti-imprisonment tool, a “Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps to end imprisonment” poster! Wondering about the differences between reforms that strengthen imprisonment…
ISSUE 33 OF THE ABOLITIONIST– OUT NOW!
We are pleased to announce that our latest Issue of The Abolitionist (#33) is finally being mailed out to our readers right now! Help us send it free to…