such as personal violence, drug addiction for pregnant women, prison conditions for the LGBTQ community. 2005 - Helped bring about the end of California's prison building boom; featured in The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and others. Launched amnesty campaign for people accused of looting post-Hurricane Katrina across the country. 2008 - On September 26–28, 2008, Critical Resistance held its 10th Anniversary (CR10) conference in Oakland, CA. The 3-day conference focused on strategizing, collaborating, and organizing for abolishing the prisons. It included workshops, film showings, cultural art performances, strategy sessions, and meetings. A large number of youth, people of color and members of the LGBT community attended and participated in conference activities. 2013 - CR worked with the No New SF Jail Coalition to stop the proposal for a $456 million jail project. 2014 - CR distributed 12,000 issues of The Abolitionist paper that includes stories of those who are imprisoned. See also Prison industrial complex Prison abolition movement Angela Davis The Sentencing Project References External links Critical Resistance official website USA, INCarcerated video from the 1st Critical Resistance conference, Berkeley, 1998 Political advocacy groups in the United States Prison-related organizations Prison abolition movement Angela Davis Police abolition movement