Rochester Indy TV interviews two organizers Helia Rasti and Jonathan Strebling-Uss, both work with Critical Resistance a movement to abolish the prison industrial complex. This week thousands will gather in Oakland California to celebrate ten years of Critical Resistance and strategize for a future a without prisons. The conference will be broadcast live on thousandkites.org and check out the new CR10 website. http://www.criticalresistance.org/

"Critical Resistance's vision is the creation of genuinely safe, healthy
communities that respond to harm without relying on prisons and punishment.

We call our vision "abolition", and take the name purposefully from those who called for the abolition of slavery in the 1800's. Abolitionists believed that slavery could not be fixed or reformed - it needed to be abolished. As PIC abolitionists today, we also do not believe that reforms can make the PIC just or effective. Our goal is not to improve the system; it is to shrink the system into non-existence"