Uplifting Indigenous Resistance, Today & Always
This week is as significant a time as ever to reflect on how the prison industrial complex (PIC) is deployed on behalf of the US colonial project, and in turn…
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.
Dear Los Angeles and Southern California based friends of Critical Resistance,
We’re happy to share that Critical Resistance (CR) has been steadily working to strengthen our Los Angeles… As the dust settles after this year’s midterm election, we at Critical Resistance (CR) are reflecting on the balance of forces that are aligning at this moment and what it… Critical Resistance (CR) joins communities of resistance in mourning the loss of historian, geographer, abolitionist intellectual and organizer Mike Davis. He passed away last Tuesday, October 25th at age 76… Big, big thank you to those who joined us in New York on Saturday October 15, whether in person or in spirit, to celebrate the re-launch of Critical Resistance New… After securing a court order for CA Correctional Center (CCC) in Susanville to close, Critical Resistance is working to expedite CCC’s closure as part of our work with Californians United… 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 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 Los Angeles Updates & December Event for The Abolitionist & Prison Closure Fight!
Abolition NOW post 2022 midterm elections
Rest in Power, Mike Davis!
CRNYC ReLaunch Success: THANK YOU!
CA Action Alert to Close Prisons: Email CDCR & Governor to Expedite Closure of CCC!
Critical Resistance turns 24!
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!