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Issue 43: Seeds through Concrete confronts the tightening grip of censorship, surveillance, and state control—featuring surrealist… On May 21, 2025, Portland City Council debated and ultimately approved a preliminary budget of $8.5 billion—with roughly $316 million going to the Portland Police Bureau (PPB). This is a… The PIC is the infrastructure of fascism.
Let’s dismantle it—together.
Across the US and beyond, fascism is not a looming possibility—it’s a present reality.
It wears a badge.
It… This May, we at Critical Resistance (CR) honor the revolutionary legacies of Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama—comrades who shared a May 19 birthday and whose lifelong commitment to dismantling racial… For the month of April, we honor two dates that speak to the resilience of life under violent systems of control: Palestinian Prisoners Day on April 17, and Earth Day… As we’ve moved from Black History Month through Women’s History Month, marking the later with International Women’s Day in the month’s beginning and ending it with the upcoming International Day… Dear Pacific NorthWest friends and supporters,
As 2024 drew to a close, Critical Resistance reflected on our daunting conditions ahead and why prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition is needed to… Dear Friends,
For the past couple weeks, Critical Resistance Los Angeles (CRLA) has been mobilizing with our local movement partners in the migrant rights movement to take to the streets… Today is the annual celebration of the life and legacy of Dr Martin Luther King, his commitment to rejecting racism, economic inequality, militarism and imperialism. This recognition and reclamation of… As we forge on into 2025, Critical Resistance remains steadfast in our mission to build a movement for prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition. Your unwavering support will continue to be…
Seeds through Concrete: Issue 43 of The Abolitionist is out now!
Portland’s Budget Makes Cuts to Policing, But More Is Needed
Abolition is the Antidote to Fascism
Malcolm, Yuri & Abolition Now
Honoring Palestinian Prisoners Day & Earth Day: Resistance, Liberation, and the Fight for Life
From Black History Month to Women’s History Month: Uplifting the Feminist Tradition of Abolition
Community is Resistance: Pushing for a People’s Budget!
CRLA: From Wildfires to Defending our Communities Against ICE
Honoring MLK’s Radical Legacy & Resisting the right-wing’s pull
THANK YOU for helping CR start 2025 off strong!