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Policing Harms Public Health: the APHA …

WEBa national public health coalition led the 25,000-member strong American Public Health Association (APHA) in November to pass a policy statement stating that the violence of …

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URL: http://criticalresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/APHA_pamphlet_FINAL_Feb2019-1.pdf

Public Health Professionals Identify Policing as a Public …

WEBIn 2016, a group of public health students, researchers, and organizers felt that it was past time for the public health field to take a stand on the issue of policing and its harms. …

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A National Abolitionist Victory for Public Health! – Critical …

WEBA group of dedicated public health educators, researchers, and medical professionalsworked for three years on this “Law Enforcement is a Public Health Issue” …

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Resisting Policing: Dismantle, Divest, Defund – Critical …

WEBIn 2016, a group of public health students, researchers, and organizers felt that it was past time for the public health field to take a stand on the issue of policing and its harms. …

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Access to Healthcare & PIC Abolition – Critical Resistance

WEBUsing Jenna Loyd’s new book Health Rights are Civil Rights: Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963-1978 as a jumping off point, we will dive into a discussion that …

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Resources for Abolishing Policing – Critical Resistance

WEB“Policing is a Public Health Issue” Organizer Pamphlet + Worksheet. In November 2018, Critical Resistance (CR) was proud to be amongst health workers and anti-policing …

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From Crisis to Care: Ending the Health Harm of Women’s …

WEBThe 40-page report examines key demographics of imprisoned people in CA’s prisons for women, identifies several layered harmful impacts of imprisonment in CA’s prisons, and …

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EX ECU TIV E S U M M A RY

WEBhealth for caregivers and children. The state of California invests $405 million a year in its women’s prisons. Instead of perpetuating a system that overwhelmingly works against …

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CRITICAL RESISTANCE NATIONAL OFFICE …

WEBThe health workers have harnessed their creativity, knowledge and networks to support communities in responding effectively and responsibly to health crises - not just through …

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The Impact of The Zachary Project – Critical Resistance

WEBThe funds supported people in mental health crises, to help with housing and reentry support after prison, and recovery with time off work. Patricia Salazar and her children, …

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Abolition Now: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex, tion

WEBDismantling the Prison Industrial Complex, tion. CR makes abolition common sense through education, media work, and campaigns that achieve concrete abolitionist reforms. In all …

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Lincoln Detox Center: The People’s Drug Program

WEBIn early 1970, there was a woman by the name of Carmen Rodriguez who was butchered in the hospital and bled to death on a gurney. Following that death, the Young Lords, with …

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The People’s Report NO NEW JAIL IN SAN FRANCISCO

WEBSixty-five percent of imprisoned people experience substance use problems. The San Francisco Department of Public Health Jail Health Services Department reported in …

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Oakland Power Projects – Critical Resistance

WEBThe “Know Your Options” workshop series from Critical Resistance’s Oakland Power Projects aims to increase people’s access to the healthcare they need and to decrease …

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Reimagine 109: Allocate 50% of AB 109 Funds to Community …

WEB109 funding to community and/or health-based organizations, beginning in the next fiscal year and thereafter, for the following purposes to support successful re-entry: 1. …

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Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps to end IMPRISONMENT

WEBDecarceration - or reducing the number of people in prisons and jails. Shutting down existing jails and prisons and not replacing them. Rejecting government spending for jail …

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A REALISTIC VISION

WEBFor example, providing drug users with health care and harm reduction strategies instead of locking them in cages helps reduce the harm that drug use might cause. When public …

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The Impact of The Zachary Project – Critical Resistance

WEBThis year, people have accessed The Zachary Project to cover medical bills for cancer treatment, to help purchase hearing aids not covered by insurance, and to support …

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NEW ORGANIZING RESOURCE

WEBJails and prisons deprive communities of resources like medical and mental health care, transportation, food, and housing. In our fights, it is critical to uplift and strategically …

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LA No More Jails & Justice LA – Critical Resistance

WEBIn 2019 Justice LA defeated the contracts for LA County to build both a new women’s jail and mental health jail, a plan that we have been campaigning against since 2009 when …

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Policing & Militarism on Campus: Reformist Reforms vs …

WEBThese charts break down the difference between reformist reforms which continue or expand the reach of policing, and abolitionist steps that work to chip away and reduce its …

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