Making Gains in 2012: CR on the Mic
Whether talking about civil gang injunctions, imprisonment, or community alternatives to either, CR members are taking every opportunity to speak publically about the impacts of the prison industrial complex and…
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.
During 2011 Critical Resistance helped mobilize dozens of community organizations and hundreds of individuals to fight tooth and nail against the imposition of civil gang injunctions. Through our work in… California is definitely in crisis. Unemployment is high. Education and healthcare access is receding. Budget cuts on city, county and state levels are severe, especially for the working and poor… Time flies.
It feels like just weeks ago we were sharing with you some of the gains Critical Resistance made as 2011 came to a close. And now, we are… On Monday July 16th, prisoners began hunger strikes at Bertie CI in Windsor, Scotland CI in Laurinburg, and Central Prison in Raleigh (North Carolina). Targeting a wide range of conditions… This week (June 8, 2012) we are honored to join with people all over the country (and beyond!) to celebrate Carlos Montes’ victory against state repression. As many of you… After years of devastating cuts to life-affirming programs such as education and healthcare, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors is poised to approve the construction of a $150 million… In the past week, the Oakland Police Department (OPD) and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) released strategic plans they claim would have thoroughgoing and sustainable impacts on… Attention all PIC-loathing writers and researchers: the International Conference on Penal Abolition and Survivors in Solidarity with Prison Abolition are both having open calls for submissions of writings related to,…
Making Gains in 2012: Resisting Policing, Building Community
Making Gains in 2012: No More Jails and Prisons!
Making Gains in 2012
Support Prisoner Organizing: Prisoners in North Carolina on Strike!
Victory for Carlos!
Urgent Call for Action: No New Jail in San Mateo!
What They Call Public Safety…We say, “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”
Two PIC-Related Open Calls for Submissions