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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.

The Fight Against Urban Shield 2015

Stop Urban Shield is a broad coalition including Critical Resistance and other grassroots organizations, based primarily in the Bay Area but with partnering groups across the nation, who have come…

Hugo Pinell, Presente!

August 12, 2015 It is with very heavy hearts that we mourn the loss of Hugo “Yogi” Pinell, who was killed at New Folsom Prison this past Wednesday, August 12,…

Cops Are Not Medics

April 28, 2015 Dear Friends, As people in Baltimore take the streets with outrage over Freddie Gray’s death, yet another Black person killed by police, the official account of the…

Int’l Women’s Day: Building for Liberation

CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN’S DAY and BUILDING A MOVEMENT FOR LIBERATION CR-Oakland member Heidi Hoescht read this statement Sunday, March 8, at a rally commemorating the 105th Anniversary of International…

Malcolm X and Abolitionist Common Sense

February 20, 2015 “And in my opinion, the young generation of whites, blacks, browns, whatever else there is, you’re living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution, a…

Want a Taste of Freedom?

February 17, 2015 If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you keep going. Don’t ever stop.…

States of Emergency

Dear Friends, In anticipation of a verdict from the grand jury investigating the murder of Michael Brown by cop Darren Wilson, Missouri’s governor declared a state of emergency in Ferguson…

Remember the Hunger Strike!

One year ago, prisoners throughout California’s vast prison system initiated a second wave of hunger strikes, doubling the participation of the first, historic strike several months earlier.  12,000 people in…

North Carolina Hunger Strike: Support Needed

Update & Call for Support from Prison Books Chapel Hill: First, we are announcing and encouraging people to participate in a call-in day to support NC prison hunger strikers on…