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Come work with Critical Resistance as our new
National Media & Communications Director!
Are you a prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist with media organizing chops who is passionate and committed to making PIC abolition common sense & irresistible? Come work with CR and apply for one of our co-director positions. Critical Resistance (CR) is seeking a National Media and Communications Director to direct CR’s media and communications organizing by developing and implementing communication and media plans and strategies to support CR’s projects and campaigns nationally.

A flyer with CR's hiring announcement on it. The background is a collage of six photos of CR's media organizing over the years. Black, white & yellow text overlay the foreground. CR's logo on the top of the graphic. Text reads: Critical Resistance. We're hiring! National Media & Communications Director. Apply Now! bit.ly/ApplyCR2025. Send your cover letter & resume to: [email protected].

This role includes but is not limited to: training CR members to carry out the organization’s media and communication plans together; increasing CR’s national impact and profile; amplifying the concept and practice of PIC abolition nationally and internationally; and co-directing the national organization with other co-directors and staff to maintain the growth and health of the organization.
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CR is looking for an experienced media organizer to join our team of dedicated PIC abolitionists. Check out the full list of required skills and past expertise on the job description ([link removed]) before applying. Formerly imprisoned people are highly encouraged to apply. We also encourage people of color, women, queer and trans/gender-nonconforming people to apply. We welcome people from all educational backgrounds to apply.

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In struggle and solidarity,

-Critical Resistance


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Mutual Aid for Abolition: Check out the impacts made by CR Oakland's The Zachary Project this past year!

In 2024, The Zachary Project ([link removed]) supported community members and comrades of Critical Resistance Oakland (CROak) with rent and living expenses, was there to help people meet mental health needs, and helped people weather unexpected moments of crisis. From living expenses, to medical bills, and more, we resourced organizers and friends of Critical Resistance (CR) suddenly unemployed or coming home from prison. Read all about the project's work and impacts here. ([link removed])

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Stream NOW: 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 is available on CR's website ([link removed]) , the Beyond Prisons website ([link removed]) , and all of the Beyond Prisons's Podcast streaming platforms ([link removed]) .

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Resist Policing's "Deadly Exchanges": Sneak peek inside Issue 42 of The Abolitionist! ([link removed])

CR's Campaign Director Mohamed Shehk and a comrade from the Demilitarize Atlanta to Palestine coalition wrote a useful article explaining the historic victory to defund Urban Shield and the developing campaign to end the Georgie International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) in Atlanta, Georgia. Read, share & subscribe to the newspaper today! ([link removed])

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Subscribe TODAY: Check out CR's latest issue of The Abolitionist, Issue 42 on anti-war organizing

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 while we still have a limited supply of print copies & 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.
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Curious what else CR has been up to? Check out CR's chapters & what we've been advancing on the ground from California to New York!


From fires to ICE,CR Los Angeles has been continuing its work ([link removed]) with CR Oakland to close prisons across the state of California, while joining the Community Self Defense Coalition LA to defend our LA communities against the expanding threat of immigration raids and crack downs.

Meanwhile, CR in New York City (CRNYC) has been continuing the charge ([link removed]) with Abolish ICE New York New Jersey to pass Dignity Not Detention legislation in New York state once and for all, as our Portland chapter lays more foundation for a new anit-policing campaign ([link removed]) in the Pacific Northwest. Read more CR updates here. ([link removed])
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