Summer 2023 Updates & News!
Whether it was celebrating 25 years of Critical Resistance (CR) with a large fundraiser and panel in May, propelling our prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist campaign and project work forward,…
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.
This week this year marks the 52nd anniversary of the Attica Rebellion—when from September 9-13, 1971, about 1,300 prisoners rose up in resistance against horrible prison conditions. In solidarity with… For years, Washington prisoners have used Cultural Awareness Groups (CAGs) (CAGs) as spaces for collective growth, liberation, healing practices, and inside-out organizing with local partners like Liberation Media NW and… This week, Atlanta residents and organizers are making a final push to gain the 70,000 signatures needed to get a referendum on the November ballot for the people of Atlanta… The latest issue of Critical Resistance’s cross-wall bilingual newspaper, The Abolitionist— this time focused on examining reproductive justice and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition—, has printed on Juneteenth 2023, and… Over the last year, the Portland chapter of Critical Resistance has been engaged in assessments of our work, the shifts in the prison industrial complex (PIC) locally, and how we… Toward the end of May, Critical Resistance joined our longtime movement partners with Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) in Sacramento to amplify and advocate for the demands of… Resistance to Cop City in Atlanta (ATL) has ramped up once again, this time after ATL police raided a house of ATL Solidarity Fund activists providing direct legal support to… Happy Mamas’ Day from Critical Resistance (CR)!
Mamas, aunties, and caretakers have been the back bone of abolition for generations.
According to Prison Policy Initiative and Interrupting Criminalization:
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Dear Friends & Comrades of Critical Resistance (CR),
Thank you so much to everyone who joined us in-person or online for Toward Abolitionist Horizons, a benefit celebrating 25 years…
Attica Means Fight Back: Reflecting on 52 years of Prisoner Rebellion
Prisoners Resisting Repression of Cultural Awareness Groups in Washington
This Week in ATL: Mobilize to Stop Cop City!
Hot off the press: Issue 39 of The Abolitionist on Reproductive Justice!
CRPDX Update: Policing escalates in Portland
CA Prison Closure Organizers Meet with Legislators & Attend Statewide Quest for Democracy
Stop Cop City: The People Oppose Expansive Police Training Fortress
Free All Mamas: Give the Gift of The Abolitionist Newspaper this Mothers’ Day!
Celebrating 25 Years of Critical Resistance, Toward Abolitionist Horizons: May 2023 Fundraiser