About the org

Critical Resistance is a national, member-based grassroots organization that works to build a mass movement to dismantle the prison-industrial complex. Critical Resistance's national office is in Oakland, California, with three additional chapters in New York City, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon.

Their mission

Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. We believe that basic necessities such as food, shelter, and freedom are what really make our communities secure. As such, our work is part of global struggles against inequality and powerlessness. The success of the movement requires that it reflect communities most affected by the PIC. Because we seek to abolish the PIC, we cannot support any work that extends its life or scope.

Collaborations

Since the post-George Floyd rebellions against anti-black police violence, Setsu spent her 2020 summer organizing a series of Teach-ins with Erica Meiners, Nick Mitchell, and Dylan Rodriguez aimed to expand an understanding of abolition and its ongoing practices and potential to radically transform college campuses and universities as sites of struggle. The three-part teach-in series, titled Abolition and the University, aims to support, deepen and proliferate abolitionist organizing on post-secondary educational campuses.

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