CR reflects on how the PIC impacts Black people across the country and world as well as the recent efforts to resist and orient toward PIC abolition.

CR reflects on Black History Month- as
attacks on Black history expand, resistance
and PIC abolition remain strong
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Dear Comrades and Friends of Critical Resistance,

As we close in on the end of Black History month, we at Critical Resistance are reflecting on the ways that the prison industrial complex (PIC) impacts Black people across the country and world as well as the recent efforts to resist and orient toward PIC abolition. Whether we’re looking at the recent report on policing killings ([link removed]) - and that Black people are still high on that list - to the expansion of criminalization for teaching Black History in right wing states ([link removed]) to the increased detention and expulsion ([link removed]) of Haitian immigrants by the Biden administration ([link removed]) - particularly under Title 42 - the specific policing and imprisonment targeting Black people continues - even after the most recent uprisings in 2020. It has even recently come to light that we’re finding history repeat itself
with potential FBI initiated infiltration into Black Lives Matter protests in Denver that resulted in the ruptures in the organizing ecosystem ([link removed]) .

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But, as always, where there is repression, there is resistance. In cases like the fight around the murder of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police, organizers have successfully shut down the SCORPION tactical unit ([link removed]) and are taking aim at ending pretextual traffic stops ([link removed]) . In one of the biggest majority Black Cities in the South, Atlanta, the fight against Cop City ([link removed]) , an intended weaponized police training program and site, continues.

CR stands in solidarity with these efforts and we encourage you to do so as well. We will continue our work fighting for the end of detention in NY ([link removed]) state, which has the largest Black immigrant population in the US, as well as the fight to close 10 prisons by 2025 in CA ([link removed]) , which disproportionately imprisons Black people in its prison system ([link removed]) .

As an abolitionist vision and practice continues to animate and embolden work across the country and world, we are encouraged by the fights we’re seeing unfold and the growing movement to abolish the PIC. Sending strength and fortitude for the fight to you all.

Onward,

Critical Resistance


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