Critical Resistance turns 24!
This week marks the 24th anniversary of Critical Resistance’s first conference in 1998, “Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex.” In honor of our first organizing conference, we share Dylan…
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.
Critical Resistance Oakland and Los Angeles’s campaign with Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) to #CloseCAPrisons has been making some game-changing headway in the past few months.
After we…
Dearest Comrades,
As August comes to a close, Critical Resistance reflects on this year’s Black August. Black August, a month of recognition and recommitment to revolutionary discipline launched in…
What is CR’s Prisoner Solidarity Phone Line?
As a political organization working to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC), CR has a practice of taking prisoners’ phone calls as… CR is excited to introduce you to our new CR Oakland Prisoner Correspondence intern, Anastasia Franco! Anastasia started in her role on July 19th and we know that her commitment… In July, over 100 Californians joined Building Power Across Walls To #CloseCAPrisons, a statewide online information session for the California prison closure campaign.
In July, over 100 Californians joined Building… We’re happy to announce exciting new changes in our membership in staffing!
Please welcome Rehana Lerandeau, a former chapter member of Critical Resistance Oakland now based in Atlanta, to our… In recent months, we’ve seen an escalation and expansion of gender-based, white-supremacist violence across the political spectrum in the US.
From right-wing consolidation and mobilizations to the overturning of Roe… As we progress through the 11th anniversary of the CA prisoner hunger strikes against solitary confinement, where tens of thousands of prisoners across CA joined forces to challenge the use… In May 2022, we launched a 6-week fundraising drive for CR supporters to sign up as monthly sustainers by the end of June, with the hopes of raising $42,000 in…
A Winning Step Toward a Prison-Free CA: Prisoner Resistance & the Fight to Close CA Correctional Center (CCC)
Recommitting to Abolition: Black August 2022
CR’s Prisoner Solidarity Phone Line is accepting volunteer applications!
Congratulations to CR Oakland’s new Prisoner Correspondence Intern, Anastasia Franco!
CA: Thank You for Attending Building Power Across Walls To #CloseCAPrisons
Announcing two staff changes: New Membership Coordinator & New Development Director
Abolition is a Feminist Politic: On Abortion Bans & Racialized Gender-Based Violence
Long Live Paul Redd & the CA Prisoner Hunger Strikes to End Solitary Confinement!
Two more days to enter our raffle: #SustainCR for the long haul!