Critical Resistance (CR) honors International Working Women's Day and Women's History Month

Celebrating International Working Women's Day ([link removed])
with Palestinian Feminist Collective
& Women's History Month
with California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP)
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Dear Friends of Critical Resistance (CR),

This March, we celebrate the legacy of international working women’s struggle for liberation. In this moment it is ever relevant to strengthen the fight for the power and self determination of working women, femmes and gender oppressed people around the globe.
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Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and particularly the recent massacre in Rafah, must be at the fore when thinking about the struggle for women’s liberation right now. According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society, ([link removed]) “this year is the bloodiest for Palestinian women ([link removed]-) .” In Gaza, where a majority of the population are children, Israel continues its callous genocidal acts–engaging in mass starvation of the people. When a settler colonial state removes the capacity of a people to sustain life, this is also an attack on reproductive justice and must be treated as such. On Friday, March 8, movement partners near and far are mobilizing mass actions in the spirit of the first women’s strike in New York City in 1908, to stand united in upholding the legacy and power of women’s resistance here and in Palestine and demand an end
to the horrendous genocide funded by US tax dollars. Find an International Working Women’s Day action near you ([link removed]) and take the streets with us!
Globally, the struggle for reproductive autonomy continues in the wake of the far-right’s threat, the fight against the PIC remains vigorous. CR’s Oakland and Los Angeles chapters and California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) have been central organizations in Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB)’s fight to close 10 prisons by 2025 in CA ([link removed]) , while CCWP spearheads the effort to close the two remaining state women’s prisons ([link removed]) in California.

PIC abolition is a necessary vision for the liberation of all working women and gender oppressed people. Please join CR in attending CCWP’s upcoming event on March 28 at 5pm PST #ClosureIsPossible: Making California Women’s Prisons Obsolete ([link removed]) featuring CR-cofounder Rachel Herzing, Andrea James, and Piper Kerman.

Happy International Working Women’s Day and Women’s history month!

Onward toward liberation,

-Critical Resistance


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TOMORROW, Friday, March 8: From San Francisco, to Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Providence, Washington DC, Palestine & Beyond, THIRD WORLD WOMEN RESIST!

If you’re in the Bay Area, please join CR Oakland in San Francisco for the 2024 International Working Women's Day mobilization, as part of Palestinian Feminist Collective’s mass mobilizations ([link removed]) in multiple cities.

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Thursday, March 28, 5pm PT: "Making California Women's Prisons Obsolete" Event with CCWP

Join CCWP and three leading anti-prison activists—Andrea James, Rachel Herzing, and Piper Kerman—in a vital conversation about making women’s history by closing women’s prisons in California and across the country. What will it take to make this vision real? Register for the Zoom link! ([link removed])

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Want on Reproductive Justice & Abolition?: Read Issue 39 of The Abolitionist Newspaper!

Issue 39 of CR's cross-wall bilingual newspaper covers articles exploring how the PIC maintains reproductive oppression, and how PIC abolition and reproductive justice must conjoin to win collective liberation, featuring an interview with CCWP’s Diana Block and Moonlight Pulido on the fight for reparations for people forcibly sterilized ([link removed]) while caged in California prisons for women.

The complete issue is available for free download in both English and Spanishhere. ([link removed]) CR’s launch webinar in September 2023–“Our Bodies, Our Freedom: Abolishing the Prison Industrial Complex Post-Roe”–for Issue 39 ([link removed]) is also available online to (re)watch, as is CR’s first podcast episode of “Over the Wall: The Abolitionist Hour” here ([link removed]) .
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Calling all New Yorkers EVERY FRIDAY this Spring: Weekly Phone Zaps for Dignity Not Detention!

Join Critical Resistance New York City (CRNYC) and the Abolish Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) New York New Jersey Coalition in a weekly phone zap. ([link removed]) Every week on Friday at 12pm ET, we're calling and emailing our representatives to urge them to pass the NY Dignity Not Detention Act. Sign up at bit.ly/dndphonezaps ([link removed])

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Today, Tomorrow & Next Week: Defend the Bay Bridge 78!

All this week, supporters in the Bay Area and beyond have been calling and emailing the San Francisco District Attorney's office each day to demand they drop all charges against the Bay Bridge 78, a group of protestors & Bay Area residents who shut down the Bay Bridge in November for a ceasefire when Biden was in town.

This week and next keep up the pressure with CR, and help us with more calls and emails. ([link removed]) , If you're in the Bay Area join us for court support next week, on Thursday, March 14 at 850 Bryant in San Francisco. A drop the charges rally will be held at 12:30pm PT, and court starts at 1:30pm.
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Imprisoned Organizer Sitawa Jamaa is Free & Home: Donate NOW ([link removed]) to support his daily care!

Sitawa Jamaa is a founding member of the Short Corridor Collective out of Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU), which led thehistoric 2011 and 2013 hunger strikes ([link removed]) against solitary confinement. CR welcomed him home last week after more than 40 years of imprisonment. ([link removed]) After three strokes while in prison, he will need quality daily care.

Donate to Sitawa's coming home fund, ([link removed]) so we can make sure Sitawa lives free from prison in a good care facility in the Bay Area near his family: bit.ly/sitawa-jamaa ([link removed]) .
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Are you a donor of CR? Schedule a Coffee Chat with us!

Thank you to all our generous donors for your steady support. CR would love to check in to learn more about you and what's keeps you excited about PIC abolition. Will you help us shape ways to connect with you and others throughout the year?

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Critical Resistance is majority grassroots-funded. Donate today!

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