With a far-right regime rearing its ugly head next month, 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.
In 2024, CR Oakland and CR Los Angeles 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.CRNYC members 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.
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.
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!
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 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.
