In building strong campaigns and projects to abolish the prison industrial complex, Critical Resistance organizers often pressure and mobilize mainstream media to cover the struggle. Often, Critical Resistance is also contacted by the Press to give statements and offer our expertise on different issues surfacing in the News concerning the prison industrial complex and abolition.
Check out how Critical Resistance has been making News in the articles and links below.
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Abby Cunniff and Critical Resistance co-founder Ruth Wilson Gilmore argue that California’s effort to reform prisons is a dead end; what we really need is to close prisons and protect…
Critical Resistance & The Abolitionist Editorial Collective members Dylan Brown and Molly Porzig are at it again with CR’s second episode of “Over the Wall: The Abolitionist Hour,” a show…
Critical Resistance is collaborating with Beyond Prisons Podcast for a new podcast show called, Over The Wall: The Abolitionist Hour with Critical Resistance. Each episode will explore the latest issue…
In These Times covers the fight to stop “Cop City” in Atlanta, and mentions public comment submitted by Critical Resistance’s Rehana Lerandeau. Read full article here “Despite Atlanta residents testifying…
A number of prominent voices in the tech scene have seized the Cash App founder’s death as an opportunity to slam San Francisco as a violent hellscape. Critical Resistance’s Campaigns…
Article covers the Dancing Through Prison Walls project, which yielded the dance film “Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic” shown at community events nationally and most recently in…
Shanon Lee of Popsugar points people in the direction of Critical Resistance and other movement partners to take action against policing in the aftermath of Tyre Nichols’ murder by police…
Sonali Kolhatkar of Yes! Magazine interviews Critical Resistance co-founder Ruthie Wilson Gilmore on her latest book, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Verso, 2022). The book is based on Gilmore’s numerous abolition-themed…
Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB)’s Brian Kaneda speaks with KPFA Radio about the CA Prison Closure Campaign’s September 2022 securing a court order to close California Correctional Center…
Christopher McMichael of New Frame reviews Ruthie Wilson Gilmore’s book Abolition Geography, where CR co-founder looks at crime, incarceration and alternatives that focus on social upliftment rather than the prison…