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.
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,…
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