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Sustain campaigns against caging & imprisonment!
Central to Critical Resistance(CR)’s praxis, campaigns are essential to the success of prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition, and 2023 saw many campaign achievements and advances. This year, CR propelled PIC…
2023 Annual Year-End Letter: CR Updates from the Year!
Each year in December, Critical Resistance (CR) reflects on the advances we’ve made throughout the year against the prison industrial complex (PIC). From celebrating 25 years of strategy and struggle…
Every year, Critical Resistance (CR) sends personalized postcards with messages of love and solidarity to each of our imprisoned comrades and loved ones. Connect with a chapter near you and attend one of CR’s virtual or in-person postcard writing events
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From Webinars to Blocking Boats: Solidarity Actions for a Free Palestine!
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 …
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…
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…
Prisoners Resisting Repression of Cultural Awareness Groups in Washington
For years, Washington prisoners have used Cultural Awareness Groups (CAGs) (CAGs) as spaces for collective growth, liberation, healing practices, and inside-out organizing with local partners like Liberation Media NW and…
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 …
CRPDX Update: Policing escalates in Portland
Over the last year, the Portland chapter of Critical Resistance has been engaged in assessments of our work, the shifts in the prison industrial complex (PIC) locally, and how we…