Oakland Power Projects
After participating in over ten years of anti-policing work in Oakland, Critical Resistance launched the Oakland Power Projects (OPP) in 2015 in order to build Oakland’s capacity to resist the…
Black August and The Struggle to Abolish Solitary
August 21, 2015 Dear friends, This Black August as we mourn the loss of political prisoner Hugo Pinell, who spent years locked in solitary confinement at Corcoran, Pelican Bay, and…
CR Oakland Prisoner Mail Program
Since the early 2000’s Critical Resistance Oakland (CR Oakland) has been corresponding with thousands of imprisoned loved ones and comrades in prisons, jails, and detention centers across the US (and…
Grassroots Organizing That Makes PIC Abolition Irresistable
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…
Thursday, August 4 // 12pm to 1pm (PDT)
Hosted by Stop Urban Shield Coalition and Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
What is Urban Shield, how does it increase policing and militarization, and how can we …
Stop the Injunctions Coalition (STIC)
As Oakland boiled over with tensions, rage and grief after Oscar Grant III was killed by a transit cop, Critical Resistance Oakland formed Stop the Injunctions Coalition (STIC) in 2010…
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity (PHSS) Coalition: In 2011 & 2013 when prisoners in the Short Corridor solitary confinement unit of Pelican Bay State Prison in CA started waves of hunger…
Malcolm X and Abolitionist Common Sense
February 20, 2015 “And in my opinion, the young generation of whites, blacks, browns, whatever else there is, you’re living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution, a…
States of Emergency
Dear Friends, In anticipation of a verdict from the grand jury investigating the murder of Michael Brown by cop Darren Wilson, Missouri’s governor declared a state of emergency in Ferguson…
Remember the Hunger Strike!
One year ago, prisoners throughout California’s vast prison system initiated a second wave of hunger strikes, doubling the participation of the first, historic strike several months earlier. 12,000 people in…