CR reflects on the importance of Indigenous resistance & sovereignty to abolition
Indigenous Peoples Day 2024
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Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples' Resistance
Today & Always
Today, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we at Critical Resistance (CR) join communities everywhere to honor native peoples’ ongoing legacies of struggle for decolonization in Turtle Island and across the world. In the face of the Palestinian people’s ongoing resistance to genocide and settler colonialism, it is all the more crucial that we take time to reflect on, learn from, and take action in support of Indigenous communities globally.
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We find deep inspiration from the unbreakable solidarity over this last year demonstrated by Indigenous people in the imperial core of the US with Palestinian liberation, from Tacoma ([link removed]) , Albuquerque ([link removed]) , Oakland ([link removed]) , and all over the country ([link removed]) . Native organizations such as The Red Nation ([link removed]) and NDN Collective ([link removed]) have continued to offer all of us powerful analysis that makes clear the connections between anti-colonial movements
internationally. In the same vein, as Palestinians have been leading the fight to stop the US-backed Israeli genocide, they have not missed an opportunity to reiterate their commitments to the decolonization of this land.
Native peoples’ struggles for decolonization serve as a pillar for all our movements, as it it is entirely impossible to separate them or their importance from the myriad of issues facing our communities today. The recent destruction caused by Hurricane Helene across many states in the Southeast show us the need of fighting climate change through a just transition framework that centers Indigenous people ([link removed]) . This need was made ever more clear when FEMA announced a $9 billion shortfall as a result of their disaster response on the same day that the US government approved to send $8.7 billion to apartheid Israel ([link removed]) . The increasing importance to resist the West’s imperialist policies and actions against Indigenous and Third World peoples that both drive forced migration from the Global South while militarizing border enforcement is all the more evident with rising attacks on immigration by both
Democrats and Republicans ([link removed]) . Those in power continue to double down on increasing policing, a system that continues to kill Native people in the so-called US and Canada at a rate higher than any other group.
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This is why the decolonial visions of Land Back, of our communities to be in right relationship with our earth, water, resources, and each other, compel us to see how the success of all our movements are bound with one another. These overlapping struggles and more are examined in this past summer’s issue of CR’s cross-wall newspaper, The Abolitionist. ([link removed]) Featuring articles on ecological justice and PIC abolition, Issue 41 covers resistance efforts from Palestine to South Africa, Argentina, Mexico, and Appalachia--with Indigenous and directly impacted communities in the lead. Check out the entire issue for free on CR’s website in English or Spanish here. ([link removed])
While we understand imprisonment, policing, criminalization, and border militarization have long been used as tools of colonization and repression, we seize and amplify opportunities to make sure that our campaigns to abolish the PIC advance wins for Indigenous sovereignty too. Ourstatewide campaign in California to close several prisons with Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) ([link removed]) also aims to rematriate the land that California’s prisons are on to Indigenous hands. Similarly, on the East Coast, our CR New York City chapter is working with the Abolish ICE New York New Jersey coalition ([link removed]) to situation the campaign to pass Dignity Not Detention legislation for the state of New York which would effectively end the state’s collaboration with ICE in a growingly anti-immigrant context within the broader struggle against border imperialism.
Moreover, we know that militarism, war-making, imperialism, colonization and the PIC are all inseparable, thus dismantling all of these overlapping systems and forces is an Indigenous people’s and solidarity issue. Our next issue of The Abolitionist - Issue 42 on anti-war organizing, and dedicated to our late and beloved Masai Ehehosi who passed in April of this year- covers a range of timely struggles - many Indigenous led - from organizers in Hawai’i to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Atlanta, and Palestine resisting the permanent war imperialism and capitalism wage on our communities, uplifting the historic people’s victories along the way.
Sign up for a subscription today ([link removed]) to support this vital political education and organizing project, receive your own copy of Issue 42 when we print in early December, and sponsor free subscriptions for thousands of imprisoned people in jails, detention centers, and prisons.
Onward toward liberation,
-Critical Resistance
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Want more details on CR's Recent Advances against the PIC?:Read up on CR's Summer-to-Fall 2024 Campaign & Project Updates!
From the CA campaign to close prisons to Dignity Not Detention in New York, CR is on the move, pushing to abolish the PIC on many fronts. Read CR's Summer-to-Fall 2024 updates on our website here for more details. ([link removed])
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Angelen@s!: If you're a subscriber of The Abolitionist and read Issue 41, come through to CRLA's Issue 41 Study Session Wednesday, October 23!
Read Issue 41 of The Abolitionist on ecological justice ([link removed]) and come politick and study for abolition with CR Los Angeles. Wednesday, Oct 23, online, 6-8pm PST. RSVP here: bit.ly/abbystudysesh41 ([link removed])
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Are you a registered California Voter? Vote NO on Prop 36 & spread the word this election!
Proposition 36 is a new menace on the horizon in California that endangers the abolitionist gains of the past 2 decades. On the ballot this November, Prop 36 would expand criminalization & increase funding to the PIC, taking the state into a harsher tough-on-crime direction, and threatening our ability to make further necessary gains in our campaign to Close CA Prisons.
We must come together to stop this damaging proposition from passing. Read more about the impacts of Prop 36 on our communities ([link removed]) , spread the word, and VOTE NO on PROP 36!
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New Yorkers!: Join CRNYC for Johnny Castro's ACAB-aret, a Brooklyn Music Night benefiting CR!
This Thursday, Oct 16 at 8pm EST in Brooklyn will be a lively night of piano, singing, and more - with proceeds from Johnny Castro's ACAB-aret ticket sales supporting CRNYC and our work to end ICE contracts in NY. $12 for pre-show tickets ([link removed]) , $15 at the door. Come and ACAB-aret with us!
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Friday, October 18: Tune in with Center for Political Education & Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) for "War on Lebanon" webinar!
A special in-depth look ([link removed]) at the emerging US-Israeli war on Lebanon and the fight against imperialism in the region with Vijay Prashad, Roqayah Chamseddine, and Rayan El-Amine.
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Abolition, decolonization, immigration, Palestine — how is the Left thinking about the future in this perilous political moment? (Re)watch discussions from Haymarket's Socialism 2024 conference last month. ([link removed])
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