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As Trump has pledged during this year's presidential race to deploy military forces against communities in the US once in office again, over 80 different cop city-like “deadly exchange” programs (where police and military units collaborate) are either sited for construction or already breaking ground across the US. Organizers nationally have come together to Stop Cop Nation, and CR has played a pivotal role in building out the national network—sharing strategic moves from our past successful campaigns to dismantle policing.
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Throughout 2024, CR members have continued to provide the political education support to our movement partners that is needed to build an international movement to abolish policing—anti-policing organizing that CR began doing consistently more than 15 years ago. In Atlanta, CR has been supporting local comrades with the Demilitarize Atlanta to Palestine Coalition (DA2P) further develop a new iteration of an existing campaign to end the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE), one of the longest running deadly-exchange policing programs that is run by Georgia State University and that facilitates US cops to train with the Israel Occupation Forces (IOF).
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Shutting down GILEE would be a critical step towards eliminating deadly-exchange programs and the expansion of the police state in Atlanta, while creating a model for international solidarity with Palestinian and global liberation.

On the west coast in Portland, CR's Pacific Northwest chapter has been working to launch a new anti-policing campaign targeting drug criminalization and local war-on-drugs policing approaches that are sweeping the city and devastating houseless communities. This new campaign comes on the heels of CR Portland's 2020 victory that cut $15 million from Portland's proposed police budget and disbanded the city's racist gang policing unit.
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We must remember in these harrowing times that a fascist autocrat like Trump cannot enact destructive, draconian policies without police to do the dirty work, rounding our people up. We know the terrain before us has more flashpoints of resistance and rebellion as the violence of policing and militarism work to stifle dissent and orchestrate the people’s obedience in a new far-right regime. From Atlanta to the Bay Area, to occupied Palestine and beyond, the movement for abolition will weather the storm and work to dismantle cop cities that strangle the environment, endanger our futures, and make war on our communities.

As we near the end of 2024 and approach having reached about 56% of our national goal fundraising, we ask that you donate to CR ([link removed]) once more to support the organization carry resistance against policing forward. THANK YOU for your ongoing support of CR anti-policing campaigns and network organizing. We invite you to make a monthly gift or provide a one-time donation this December to sustain this work and more through 2025 and onward. ([link removed])

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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Airing soon: Episode 3 of CR's "Over the Wall" Podcast with Beyond Prisons on The Abolitionist Newspaper!

Contributors and editors of 2024's issues of The Abolitionist Newspaper discuss Issues 41 and 42 on ecological justice and anti-war organizing. The episode will be submitted to Beyond Prisons for airing Monday, December 23 and will be up on Beyond Prisons's streaming platforms and CR's website as soon as possible.

Stay tuned here ([link removed]) to listen to special content, including The Abolitionist contributors Rehana Lerandeau and Eva Dickerson breaking down how the fight against policing is a struggle for ecological justice against war and warmaking.
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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 ([link removed]) 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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