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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
As the prison industrial complex (PIC) has grown and advanced over the past 50 years, California has prioritized the interests of corporations & racial capitalism instead of what everyday working people need. Equitable access to housing, healthcare, employment, and political
California must urgently adopt a concrete Prison Closure Roadmap. The Close California Prisons campaign, anchored by Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), presents this roadmap to outline a concrete…
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 March 2, 2023, Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) mobilized over a dozen speakers to give public comment at an impromptu state senate hearing on prison closure that…