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Support CR this Giving Tuesday & Year-end Holiday season!
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This Giving Tuesday, become a monthly sustainer
of CR's The Zachary Project and support radical mutual aid for abolitionist organizers in need

Mutual aid has long been a tenet of the work to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC). Through our campaigns, projects and solidarity organizing, Critical Resistance (CR) uses mutual aid to support our communities struggling in conditions of capitalism, crisis, and war. For almost a decade, much of this work has been done through CR Oakland’sZachary Project ([link removed]) , a community fund named in honor of beloved former Oakland chapter member Zachary Ontiveros who passed away in 2015. A dedicated anti-capitalist who always took on the thankless roles to support our community, The Zachary Project carries on Zachary’s legacy to support community organizers in need by giving mutual aid to friends of CR Oakland.
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CR has redistributed almost $9,000 to over a dozen organizers across our movement and Bay Area chapter's network in 2024. These funds often help cover basic living expenses, mental and physical health care, reentry support, and much more. In this period of intense repression ([link removed]) of radical organizers and community members struggling to get their basic needs met, it is even more dire to support the ability of community organizers to sustain themselves. Collectivity and community care are essential, no matter how dire the threat - and CR invites you to sustain movement organizers’ ability to weather these conditions.
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This Giving Tuesday, we ask that you help replenish the fund ([link removed]) after a great year of fund redistribution! Support The Zachary Project and Critical Resistance ([link removed]) this holiday season and give a holiday gift that makes a great impact.
* If you’ve ever received support funds through The Zachary Project, we invite you to pay it forward and help out the next person.
* If you have donated to the fund before, please donate again and invite someone to join you.
* If you can become a monthly sustainer at $15 or more, please do.

We ask you to keep supporting the fund through whatever means you can: a one-time financial gift, a monthly commitment, or an invitation to your networks to donate. You can donate directly at bit.ly/CR2024yearend and click “Apply My Donation To - Zachary Project”. CR will continue working to meet this moment by deepening our movement-building work, and we invite you to join us and sustain the ability of organizers to show up for their communities.

The Zachary Project funds are but one of the many ways Critical Resistance bolsters the movement to abolish the PIC. This year-end season, stay tuned for our series of weekly roundups about CR’s 2024 prisoner solidarity work, campaign organizing, movement building work, and the resources we create and share with our partners and community members.

Thank you for your commitment to growing abolition.

In struggle and solidarity,

-Critical Resistance


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This Holiday Season: Sustain CR &
help CR raise $90,000 by the end of 2024!

For over 25 years, your contributions of time, effort, and funds have empowered CR to run campaigns against policing, imprisonment, and surveillance; create tools to strengthen abolitionist organizing and analysis; build and strengthen connections with movement partners across our interconnected fights; and more. Keep CR strong over the next decades of abolitionist work! We invite you to become a monthly sustainer today ([link removed]) and continue contributing to the long-haul project of PIC abolition.

This year-end season, we are working to raise $90,000 across the entire organization ([link removed]) for our chapters, projects, and overall movement building work. We aim to raise:
* $56,000 for the organization at-large
* $15,000 for The Zachary Project ([link removed])
* $10,000 for CR's New York City chapter ([link removed])
* $3,500 for CR's Oakland chapter ([link removed])
* $3,500 for CR's Los Angeles chapter ([link removed])
* $2,000 for CR's Portland chapter ([link removed])
* Subscriptions for The Abolitionist newspaper ([link removed]) - each subscription sponsors free readership for people inside prisons, jails, and detention centers.

We appreciate donations of your time, effort, and funds to sustain our organizing, this year and the next!
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Are you in Portland, New York City, Los Angeles or Oakland? Come through to our chapters' annual Prisoner Solidarity mailing parties this week!

CR Portland, New York City, Los Angeles, and Oakland are all hosting CR's annual prisoner solidarity mailing parties, where we come together with members, volunteers and partners to write messages of love and solidarity to all of CR's imprisoned comrades. Come through to a mailing party near you and join us!

Each chapter's mailing party is on a different day, so check for details for your chapter city with the links below, and make sure to RSVP:
* Portland: Wednesday, December 4 ([link removed]) (Email for questions: [email protected])
* New York: Saturday, December 7 ([link removed]) (RSVP here ([link removed]) )
* Los Angeles: Sunday, December 8 ([link removed]) (RSVP here ([link removed]) )
* Oakland: Sunday, December 8 ([link removed]) (RSVP here ([link removed]) )

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CR's anti-war organizing Issue 42 of The Abolitionist prints December 9: Subscribe today to receive Issue 42 HOT OFF THE PRESS! ([link removed])

From the people's victory to expel the US Navy from Vieques in Puerto Rico, to targeted youth resisting military recruitment in Hawai'i, resisting "deadly-exchange" policing programs from California to Georgia and occupied Palestine, lessons from the war on drugs from both sides of the US-Mexico border, and more - Issue 42 of CR's cross-wall newspaper The Abolitionist is not one to miss. Subscribe now ([link removed]) to receive your own copy straight from the printing press in December!

Contributing authors include movement partner organizations War Resisters League, Dissenters, Demilitrize ATL 2 Palestine, Media Against Apartheid & Displacement, the International Cancel RIMPAC campaign and Anakbayan Hawai'i, Hawai'i Peace & Justice, Alianza de Mujeres Viequenses, and others.
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Sneak a peek inside Issue 42: Read Media Against Apartheid & Displacement' (MAAD)'s article on journalism, Gaza, and war resistance!

Lara Witt and Maya Schenwar examine how journalism either advances or resists war and genocide, as seen by mainstream western media's coverage of Israel's continued assault on Palestine and Lebanon.

Read the early-release article online for free on CR's website, ([link removed]) share near and far, and subscribe to the newspaper today. All paid subscriptions sponsor free subscriptions for thousands of imprisoned people in jails, detention centers, and prisons across the US and some internationally.
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Give CR Merch: Call for holiday orders!
Another way to show you’re on "Team Abolition" is by wearing CR’s merch! Give the gift of abolition today by treating yourself or a loved one to CR’s variety of hoodies, crewnecks, shirts, and totes ([link removed]) . If you want your CR merch to arrive before the holidays, please make your orders no later than Sunday, December 15 (orders placed by December 10 will definitely arrive in time).

Critical Resistance is majority grassroots-funded. Donate today!
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