Happy 2024! Critical Resistance has continued hustling through the start of the new year, and January proved to be a busy month for us. Thank you for answering our fundraising call to wrap up 2023—You showed us the value of our organizing and the power of grassroots fundraising, helping us raise over $100,000 for the entire organization (triple our goal)- with donations ranging from $10 to $10,000. Your donations and support have ushered us into this next year strong.
Your generous end-of-year donations have already covered travel expenses for The Abolitionist Editorial Collective’s nationalretreat at Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee, supplies and support costs for Palestinesolidarity mobilizations in New York and California, venue costs for in-person workshops on the prison industrial complex (PIC), abolition, CR’s campaign work and more, rent for a new chapter office space in New York, digital and physical materials for corresponding and organizing with imprisoned comrades, and much more. CR would not be able to do the work we do without your support.
In 2024, CR strives to make even more campaign advances against systems that aim to criminalize, cage, and disappear our communities, and we will continue to create and share tools to strengthen resistance to the violence of militarism, policing, imprisonment, and surveillance.
As we embark on another daunting presidential election this year in the US with both major political party top candidates campaigning on vows to enhance repressive strategies and expand the PIC, CR understands how vital it is for our work to remain strong, grounded, and rigorous. CR starts this next year eager to continue connecting across geography and liberation fronts with new and old connections to build an international movement to abolish the PIC so that all of our communities can live lives truly worth living. We are grateful that you sustain our ability to carry this work forward—toward abolitionist horizons. Thank you!
In struggle,
-Critical Resistance
MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS
Annual Newsletter for The Zachary Project: Mutual Aid for Abolition!
2023 marked eight years of mutual aid through CR Oakland’s The Zachary Project, a community fund named in honor of beloved former Oakland chapter member, Zachary Ontiveros, to support community members in need.
Imprisoned Organizer Sitawa Jamaa is Coming Home: Donate NOW to support his release and return home!
Sitawa Jamaa is a founding member of the Short Corridor Collective out of Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU), which led the historic 2011 and 2013 hunger strikes against solitary confinement. He is coming home after more than 40 years based off a compassionate release order. After three strokes while in prison, he will need quality daily care.
Resisting Control Units:Subscribe TODAY to receiveIssue 40 of The Abolitionist Newspaper!
Issue 40 printed in December and was sent to about 4,800 imprisoned subscribers and a couple hundred outside paid subscribers. With an additional 1,000 copies for outside circulation, CR has been mailing out all bulk orders for institutional / organizational subscriptions. New subscribers who signed up already in December and January will be receiving their subscriptions soon. Episode 2 of CR's podcast "Over The Wall" discussing Issue 40 of The Abolitionist has been a bit delayed, but will be by the end of February. Stay tuned!
Featuring articles on control units, Issue 40 is a timely and hard-hitting must-read for all abolitionists. Check out what's inside the issue, read the sneak peek, and subscribe today! Know people who are locked up who want The Abolitionist? Sign them up for a free subscription here.
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Mural by Leslie “Dime” Lopez at 4400 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, 2019.
