SWAT and tactical trainings in order respond to emergencies. Critical Resistance works to stop Urban Shield in Alameda County by means of protesting and defunding the expo through the county. INCITE! partnership The women's anti-violence group INCITE! and Critical Resistance partnered to create a statement on gender violence and its connection to the PIC. According to Kristian Williams, this partnership was formed because the lack of attention paid to violence within communities, and the ignoring of the experiences of survivors of domestic abuse and other gender crimes, caused tensions within the feminist movement which limited the overall success of Critical Resistance. The statement was published in 2001 and declares that the prison abolition movement must address gender violence and that social movements must not work in isolation, but rather in inter-sectional coalition. It states that both organizations share common struggles and common goals in working to deconstruct what both see as the sexism, racism, classism and homophobia that exists in the criminal justice system. The statement analyzes ways it finds women to be disproportionately targeted by the justice system and identifies strategies for combating these injustices. Timeline 1998 - "Critical Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex" conference in Berkeley, California. In September 1998, Critical Resistance held its first conference which challenged the phenomenon it called the prison industrial complex (PIC). 1998 - Formation of Critical Resistance Youth Force, a coalition of Bay Area youth organizations. It was co-directed by Anita Miralle De Asis & Rory Caygill, and at its height had 40 plus organizations in membership. The coalition mobilized thousands of youth to organize against Prop 21 legislation and to run the Books Not Bars ("fund schools, not jails.") campaign. It mobilized hundreds of Bay Area youth to protest the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles and the World Trade Organization meeting in Washington, DC. 1998 - Several thousand high school students staged a walkout to demand "Schools Not Jails." 2001 - Critical Resistance East Conference held in New York City. 2001 - Publication of INCITE! "Critical Resistance-Incite! Statement on Gender violence and the Prison Industrial Complex". 2001- In spring 2001, CR filed an environment lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections that has since prevented the construction of a 5160-bed prison in California's Central Valley. 2003 - Critical Resistance South Conference in Tremé, New Orleans. It targeted problems in women's prisons and held workshops that dealt with issues