This International Workers’ Day, Critical Resistance celebrates recent advances in the labor movement and the necessary growth in ties to the fight for prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition.
As the internal struggle within the capitalist class to govern neoliberalism heightens, austerity approaches and the PIC are being deployed as part of a tightening grip on everyday working people. Three years after the 2020 uprisings, we’re seeing the retrenchment of “tough on crime” orientation to the PIC after a media manufactured “crime wave” criminalizes poverty, as the National Guard is called to cities like San Francisco to engage in 80’s style “Drug War” tactics, all alongside, among other threats to worker power, the continued whittling away of public health and community based services nationally in favor of heightened policing and imprisonment.
Photo of CR's new workshop on labor, PIC abolition, and CA prison closure called "United We Fight: For Workers' Rights & a World Without Walls." Read the full May Day post on our website for a description and report back on the workshop, hosted at East Bay Community Space in North Oakland, Sunday April 30.
At Critical Resistance (CR), we strive to draw critical connections between labor struggles and PIC abolition through our ongoing campaigns and project work. Read more about how CR is organizing to build worker power for PIC abolition through our bilingual inside-outside newspaper, The Abolitionist, as well as the fights for California prison closure and Dignity Not Detention in New York on our website here.
This Friday, May 5: Join us for "Toward Abolitionist Horizons" as we celebrate 25 Years of Critical Resistance!
There's only a few more days until our big 25th anniversary benefit event this Friday. Join us in-person at McKenna Theater on San Francisco State University's campus or virtually online via livestream.More information on program and tickets here!
Para información en español sobre el evento, haz clic aquí.
Tuesday, May 2 in New York:Rally outside Rensselaer County Jail to call for DIGNITY NOT DETENTION!
Join us Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 3pm EST, as we will rally outside Rensselaer County Jail to call for DIGNITY NOT DETENTION! This includes the demand that Rensselaer County Jail end its 287g ICE contract and that New York state pass the Dignity Not Detention Act. Help spread the word!
*Free* Resource for May Day:Issue 38 of The Abolitionist on Labor Struggles available for download! Issue 38 of CR's bilingual inside-outside newspaper that we send to thousands of people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers for free is now available for download and circulation from our website. Check out the entire issue here and share widely with your communities and networks!
Job Opening with Building People Power:Capital Campaign Manager in North Oakland, CA Building People Power (BPP) is developing a vacant 9,000 square foot building at 4400 Telegraph Ave in Oakland, CA into a center for political organizing and education, and community building. Hosting the Capital Campaign, CR is seeking a Capital Campaign Manager to secure required funding to complete the project within the next 3 years.
