In a December 2018 webinar hosted by Critical Resistance, several co-founding members reflected on their participation in and experience with organizing national PIC abolitionist conferences at the turn of the 21st century. Speakers in the webinar included Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore, Dylan Rodríguez, Melissa Burch, and Rachel Herzing. The conversation was facilitated by CR … Continue reading Conferences as a Vehicle for Abolitionist Organizing
It’s All One Struggle At Base: Project Proposal
Well, we’re all familiar with the function of the prison as an institution serving the needs of the totalitarian state. We’ve got to destroy that function; the function has to be no longer viable, in the end. It’s one of the strongest institutions supporting the totalitarian state. We have to destroy its effectiveness, and that’s … Continue reading It’s All One Struggle At Base: Project Proposal
Working Outline
It’s All One Struggle At Base: the Craft of Movement-Building Across Prison Walls and the Meaning of Abolitionist Solidarity Introduction: Break the Chains The Social Context of PIC Abolitionist Struggle at the Turn of the 21st Century Chapter 1: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex Early Frameworks of Abolitionist Organizing and the Challenge of Political Pedagogy … Continue reading Working Outline
Issue 1
This is the first issue of The Abolitionist, published in Spring of 2005 by Critical Resistance-Oakland.
A Look Back at Critical Resistance South
By Kim Diehl
To understand the power and significance of Critical Resistance South Conference and Strategy Session, we begin with its ending – a funeral for the prison industrial complex in the form of a second line parade. Led by a traditional brass band on a warm Sunday afternoon in April 2003, thousands of conference attendees and residents of Tremé, the oldest Black neighborhood in the U.S. rejoiced, strutted, danced and swayed past Congo Square, the only space where enslaved Africans were allowed to congregate in the 18th and 19th centuries. The second line slowly marched through the heart of New Orleans declaring the end of mass incarceration, suppression and cages.
The second line funeral for the PIC told the
story of CR South: a gathering by and for southerners who organize through the
lens of liberation from enslavement. For it is only by living in the South…
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Conferences & Convergences of the 90s – 00s: a working archive
1998 Jericho '98 March - Amnesty and Freedom for All Political Prisoners “With Jericho `98 we are pushing for the admission on the part of the United States' government that our political prisoners and prisoners of war do exist inside the prisons of the United States. We are pushing for recognition in the international … Continue reading Conferences & Convergences of the 90s – 00s: a working archive
Prison News Service – a Bulldozer Publication
Prison News Service – a Bulldozer Publication http://prisonfreepress.org/Prison_News_Service.htm Back Issue Catalogue Since the bloody close of the "civil rights era" and the U.S. government's domestic crackdown on oppressed people's uprisings and liberation movements, there has been a steadily growing and committed network of movements building popular opposition to the U.S. white supremacist carceral state. These … Continue reading Prison News Service – a Bulldozer Publication
