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.
After securing a court order for CA Correctional Center (CCC) in Susanville to close, Critical Resistance is working to expedite CCC’s closure as part of our work with Californians United…
This week marks the 24th anniversary of Critical Resistance’s first conference in 1998, “Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex.”
In honor of our first organizing conference, we share Dylan…
Critical Resistance Oakland and Los Angeles’s campaign with Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) to #CloseCAPrisons has been making some game-changing headway in the past few months.
After we…
Dearest Comrades,
As August comes to a close, Critical Resistance reflects on this year’s Black August. Black August, a month of recognition and recommitment to revolutionary discipline launched in…
What is CR’s Prisoner Solidarity Phone Line?
As a political organization working to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC), CR has a practice of taking prisoners’ phone calls as…
CR is excited to introduce you to our new CR Oakland Prisoner Correspondence intern, Anastasia Franco! Anastasia started in her role on July 19th and we know that her commitment…
In July, over 100 Californians joined Building Power Across Walls To #CloseCAPrisons, a statewide online information session for the California prison closure campaign.
In July, over 100 Californians joined Building…
We’re happy to announce exciting new changes in our membership in staffing!
Please welcome Rehana Lerandeau, a former chapter member of Critical Resistance Oakland now based in Atlanta, to our…
In recent months, we’ve seen an escalation and expansion of gender-based, white-supremacist violence across the political spectrum in the US.
From right-wing consolidation and mobilizations to the overturning of Roe…
As we progress through the 11th anniversary of the CA prisoner hunger strikes against solitary confinement, where tens of thousands of prisoners across CA joined forces to challenge the use…