On Juneteenth (June 19) earlier this week, our latest issue of The Abolitionist printed, featuring articles from movement partners working with organizations like Interrupting Criminalization and the Beyond Do No Harm Network, Movement for Family Power and Youth Justice Coalition, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Intransitive, Iranians for Abolition, and more. Issue 39, now en route to over 5,300 subscribers inside and outside of cages, examines how and why reproductive justice is a vital field of struggle for PIC abolition, considering that at their core both reproductive justice and PIC abolition are about self-determination and body autonomy, as well as the right to parent and build, protect, or provide for our families.
Moving into the summer months as we continue to wage forward our campaign fights, CR will be working on distributing 1,000 additional copies of Issue 39 at community and movement events, convenings, and conferences into the fall. In September, we’ll be hosting a virtual launch event for the issue featuring contributing authors (please look out for more information to join us then coming soon). And to support The Abolitionist and free subscriptions to imprisoned people, subscribe today and receive your own copy of issue 39 (digital or print) in our second mailing in August.
Next Up, June 29:
Join Us for a Virtual Event on Winning Abolitionist Campaigns
As 2023 marks 25 years since CR’s first conference in 1998, and since hosting a successful fundraiser in early May celebrating CR turn 25, we’ve also been thinking of how the movement to abolish the PIC can benefit today and into the next decades from considering more insights and lessons learned from our first 25 years of strategy and struggle for PIC abolition. As CR Campaign Director Mohamed Shehk mentioned at our “Toward Abolitionist Horizons” fundraiser, CR has waged numerous campaigns against imprisonment and policing in different chapter cities in the last 25 years. Many of CR’s campaigns have won monumental demands that have forever changed the local terrain of abolitionist organizing for our chapters, and have forged concrete examples for other organizations, coalitions, and communities internationally to experiment with.
Next week on Thursday June 29, CR is hosting a webinar to uplift some of those insights on building and winning abolitionist campaigns, featuring seasoned abolitionist organizers like CR co-founder and former director Rachel Herzing, alongside Judah Schept, and Sharlyn Grace. Read more about these powerhouse organizers and check out more details of the event including the link to register on our website here.
Hope to see you next week for Building & Winning Abolitionist Campaigns, and at other events this summer.
Onward, for a world without walls or cages,
-Critical Resistance
MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS
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.
