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Dear Readers of The Abolitionist and Critical Resistance supporters:
What a year 2021 has already been and we are only halfway through. We are thrilled to announce that Issue…
Your support is crucial in fights to fund our communities, not cops!
With the call to Defund Police ringing in the air following 2020’s uprisings, we are advancing this…
We at Critical Resistance are excited to present our newest release – On the Road to Freedom – a toolkit we’ve created in partnership with Community Justice Exchange. This toolkit…
Several years ago, shifting conversations about the prison industrial complex (PIC) at our work sites propelled a group of Critical Resistance affiliated post secondary educators to come together. We are…
Your gifts will help essential organizing against imprisonment.
Following successful 2019 and 2020 victories with coalitions against local jail expansion, CR Oakland and Los Angeles chapters have eagerly joined…
This year, Critical Resistance (CR) is advancing our organizing plans and deepening our connections to the inspiring, re-invigorated movement to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC). Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic,…
This week, June 19, marks Juneteenth, the commemoration of the end of formalized slavery in the US. The date coincides with the last wave of notification of the signing of…
Dear friends of Critical Resistance,
We write today to mourn the loss and celebrate the legacy of our Community Advisor Linda Thurston, who organized on the steering committee of the…
Critical Resistance stands in solidarity with Palestine and is deeply opposed to Israel’s continued colonization, occupation, and use of imprisonment and administrative detention against the Palestinian people. As an organization…
This Mother’s Day, Critical Resistance sends our solidarity and fortitude to all the mothers, aunties, grandmothers, caregivers, and those who love them. We celebrate and uplift all the mothers and…