Strengthen CR’s work to fight against imprisonment everywhere!
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Dear friends,
With a far-right regime rearing its ugly head next month ([link removed]) , we know that a cornerstone of fascism is imprisonment. Once Trump’s new administration takes office in January, the practice of imprisonment as a tool of repression will continue to expand and crack down on our communities ever so fiercely. Now, more than ever, abolitionists must work together to build broad alliances and cross-sector, cross-wall power to wage winning campaigns against imprisonment. Despite what’s around the corner for both of our statewide campaigns in California and New York, CR made several gains in 2024's fight to dismantle imprisonment through the California Prison Closure campaign with Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) and the Dignity not Detention campaign with Abolish ICE New York New Jersey coalition.
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In 2024, CR Oakland ([link removed]) and CR Los Angeles ([link removed]) continued to organize with CURB to bring the state’s prison closure fight to four prison closures down and compelled a $750 million cut to California’s corrections budget (the first reduction in years) - all the while building relationships, sharing resources, and growing support for prison closure with over 100 imprisoned people and their families outside who are impacted by imprisonment in Norco, California. This coming period will be crucial for PIC abolitionists to defend their gains, and your consistent support sustains necessary strategy and action against caging in California.
On the East Coast, Critical Resistance NYC (CRNYC) and Abolish ICE NY NJ’s relentless organizing to pass Dignity not Detention legislation would effectively end immigrant detention across the state ([link removed]) . CRNYC members ([link removed]) have continued to support overall strategic planning for the coalition, engage in outreach and base-building, advance media and communications work, and support the participatory defense of people caged in immigrant detention. Your contributions foster our strong campaign organizing against the caging and criminalization of immigrants.
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Throughout 2024, CR worked with local organizers in Central Appalachia to start a new regional chapter of CR. CR Central Appalachia (CRCAPP) is hitting the ground running this next year with an experienced and strong membership core already engaged in a national campaign with the Building Community Not Prisons coalition to halt the construction of a federal prison in Letcher County, Kentucky, FCI Letcher, on a mountain top removal site. Your generous support is needed to help lay a strong organizing foundation for our new chapter and propel CRCAPP’s ability to stop federal prison expansion in the US-South.
Read more about CR's 2024 gains against imprisonment & the challenges of our shifting terrain here ([link removed])
Your time, effort, and funds all resource strong abolitionist campaigns against imprisonment. We invite you to make a monthly gift or provide a one-time donation this December to sustain CR’s work into 2025. ([link removed]) Fight fascism with abolition - Sustain CR!
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!
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])
* $1,000 forThe Abolitionist newspaper ([link removed]) through 100 new subscribers ([link removed]) at $10 each or more (Each paid subscription sponsors free subscriptions for multiple 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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Curious what else CR has been up to in 2024? Read our year-end letter! ([link removed])
From all the political education organizing to advances in the fight to close prisons in California and pass Dignity not Detention legislation in New York, CR continues to forge ahead toward even tougher political terrain in the coming years. Read all about the gains CR made in 2024 and why CR is needed in the fight ahead here. ([link removed])
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HOT OFF THE PRESS - CR's anti-war organizing Issue 42 of The Abolitionist: Subscribe today to receive Issue 42 in December! ([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 ([link removed]) of CR's cross-wall newspaper The Abolitionist ([link removed]) is not one to miss. Subscribe now ([link removed]) to receive your own copy in December & support free subscriptions for imprisoned people!
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.
Critical Resistance is majority grassroots-funded. Donate today!
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