Roadmap for Prison Closure: Close California Prisons now!
On January 12, 2023, Critical Resistance and Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) released a roadmap for prison closure in California, outlining a decarceral just transition framework to...
View ArticleThe Role of Unions in Reducing Imprisonment
A labor organizing & campaign resource created by Critical Resistance January 2023 for Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB)’s CA Prison Closure campaign, to close at least 10 prisons...
View ArticleFrom Crisis to Care: Ending the Health Harm of Women’s Prisons
Human Impact Partners, California Coalition for Women Prisons, along with Transgender, Gender-Variant and Intersex (TGI) Justice Project and Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) released...
View ArticleSneak Peek into Issue 39 – Fulfilling the Promise of Reproductive Justice:...
The following article is an early release article from CR’s The Abolitionist Newspaper, Issue 39 on Reproductive Justice, printing in June 2023 issue. To support free subscriptions of the newspaper for...
View ArticleToward Abolitionist Horizons: Celebrating 25 Years of Critical Resistance
On May 5, 2023, Critical Resistance hosted a benefit event in San Francisco, California to celebrate 25 years of Critical Resistance and the struggle to abolish the prison industrial complex. With...
View ArticleIssue 39 Sneak Peek: An Inside-Outside Fishing Line Conversation between...
The following article is a column from CR’s cross-wall, bi-lingual newspaper The Abolitionist, Issue 39’s the Inside-Outside Fishing Line–this time featuring a conversation between Mapuche political...
View ArticleCultural Awareness Groups: A Form of Prisoner-Led Resistance
For years, Washington prisoners have used Cultural Awareness Groups (CAGs) as spaces for collective growth, liberation, healing practices, and inside-out organizing with local partners. The below zine...
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News Sources on Palestinian Liberation, Gaza and Apartheid Israel
The all-out war apartheid-Israel has waged on the people of Gaza in October 2023 has exposed the unreliability and outright racism of Western media. The demonization of Palestinians, Muslims, and Arab...
View ArticleResisting Torture: Refusing to Surrender
An article from Issue 40 of The Abolitionist Newspaper by Molly Porzig with Marie Levin and “Comrade Pops” about Critical Resistance’s work in the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity coalition supporting...
View ArticleCalifornia Women’s Prisons— Sexual Abuse Response & Prevention Working Group
A groundbreaking report on sexual violence by staff in California prisons, informed by the lived experiences of over 700 incarcerated women and trans people of all genders whose incredible bravery made...
View ArticleIssue 40 Sneak Peek on Control Units –“You Can’t Kill the Spirit of a...
Interview by Dylan Brown of The Abolitionist Editors’ Note: The following article is a transcript of a conversation between Dylan Brown of Critical Resistance’s The Abolitionist Editorial Collective...
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