Join us May 5 for "Toward Abolitionist Horizons," a CR fundraiser celebrating 25 years of strategy & struggle for prison industrial complex abolition.

Join us Friday, May 5 in San Francisco, CA
or online via livestream
to celebrate 25 Years of Critical Resistance!
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Dear Friends & Supporters of Critical Resistance,

In the past 25 years of struggle since Critical Resistance’s first conference in 1998, Critical Resistance has made numerous gains against the prison industrial complex (PIC) with coalitions and movement partners ([link removed]) around the world.

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In the past 25 years, we’ve halted California’s 20-year prison building boom through leading the Stop Delano II campaign (1998-2008), starving the California prison system of millions of dollars intended for new cages and then cofounding the now-70-organization-strong Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) ([link removed]) coalition.
In the past 25 years, Critical Resistance (CR) has also resisted jail expansion coast to coast across the US. All the while, CR has built power across cages with imprisoned people ([link removed]) for PIC abolition. In the past 25 years, we have worked to erode the power of policing ([link removed]) through concrete organizing victories and model anti-policing campaigns and projects.

Now Critical Resistance is working with CURB to close at least 10 prisons by 2025 ([link removed]) , which would cut the state’s capacity to cage our people by at least one-third.
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Working now to cancel Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracts with New York prisons and jails ([link removed]) throughout the state with Abolish ICE New York New Jersey coalition, CR continues to print two fresh and radical issues of The Abolitionist ([link removed]) newspaper per year, while working with imprisoned people to close prisons in CA, and supporting imprisoned people detained by ICE to resist detention in New York.

In the next 25 years, CR will continue to fight prisons, resist jail expansion and denounce reforms that strengthen caging ([link removed]) , moving in solidarity with people resisting imprisonment while inside jails, prisons, detention centers, building critical dialogues, shared consciousness, organizing lessons and strategies across walls for PIC abolition, all as we continue to build off of our anti-policing legacy, shrinking the scale and scope of policing to build vibrant, sustainable, police-free communities.
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BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW ([link removed]) for “Toward Abolitionist Horizons” to celebrate 25 Years of Critical Resistance, and look back over the past 25 years with us of strategy and struggle against the PIC:

Friday, May 5 in-person at San Francisco State University or online via livestream.

*Featuring a special conversation between Angela Davis, Andrea Ritchie, and Ny Nourn, with performances by Dancing Through Prison Walls.*
More event information with program details, offered accommodations, and the link for purchasing tickets are all on our website here. ([link removed]) This event is a benefit for CR, and all proceeds go directly to sustaining CR’s campaigns and projects. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

See you on Friday, May 5!
-Critical Resistance


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Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners!: Join CR for a Two-Day Virtual Symposium with Palestinian Feminist Collective
We're honored to be co-sponsoring the Palestinian Feminist Collective's two-day virtual symposium honoring Palestinian Political Prisoners this year, centering the Palestinian concept and practice of sumoud.
Register at: bit.ly/PFCPrisonersSymposium ([link removed])

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April 30 in Oakland, CA: United We Fight for Workers Rights & to #CloseCAPrisons!
Are you in the Bay Area and looking for an educational way to celebrate May Day this year? CR Oakland created a new workshop on labor struggles and prison closure to build power with Bay Area workers for our campaign to close 10 CA prisons by 2025. The first public run-through of the workshop ([link removed]) will be in-person at Sunday, April 30 at East Bay Community Space in Oakland from 12-3pm.

Check out more details on CR's website & RSVP now. ([link removed])
Space is limited & slots are filling up fast!
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Job Opening with Building People Power: Capital Campaign Manager in North Oakland, CA
Building People Power (BPP) is developing a vacant 9,000 square foot building at 4400 Telegraph Ave in Oakland, CA into a center for political organizing and education, and community building. Hosting the Capital Campaign, CR is seeking a Capital Campaign Manager to secure required funding to complete the project within the next 3 years.

Read the job description and requirements here on our website, ([link removed])
spread the word and apply TODAY!

Critical Resistance is majority grassroots-funded. Donate today!

#SustainCR with monthly donations or a one-time gift here. ([link removed])
Mural by Leslie “Dime” Lopez at 4400 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, 2019.
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