This Giving Tuesday: Give the gift of Mutual Aid for Abolition!
Become a monthly sustainer to The Zachary Project and support radical mutual aid for Critical Resistance members and community organizers in need! Mutual aid has long been a tenet of…
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.
On November 1, 2023 Critical Resistance (CR) was joined by thousands of people for our Abolition Means No More War: Free Palestine Now webinar with Angela Davis, Lara Kiswani of …
From Webinars to Blocking Boats: Solidarity Actions for a Free Palestine!
Join us on November 18th from 1-3pm at 518 Valencia in San Francisco where we’ll go over the overlapping histories of prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition and labor resistance, why and how these struggles are deeply linked, and imagine what
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CR Oakland 2023 Newsletter: Updates for Spring, Summer & Fall
2023 has been a busy year for Critical Resistance Oakland. Below we share some updates on the work we’ve accomplished so far this year towards abolishing the PIC; work made…
In-person Prisoner Mail Nights on Tuesdays are back for Bay Area volunteers with CR Oakland!
Join us the SECOND and FOURTH TUESDAY nights each month! 
Over the past 3 years, CR Oakland shifted its mail program and volunteer nights …
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…
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…