We're Hiring: 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.
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.
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 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.
And help us find the right fit for our organization by forwarding this email or (or the job description on our website) to your networks and comrades.
In struggle and solidarity,
-Critical Resistance
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In 2024, The Zachary Project 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.
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, the Beyond Prisons website, and all of the Beyond Prisons's Podcast streaming platforms.
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!
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 of CR's cross-wall newspaper The Abolitionist is not one to miss. Subscribe now 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.
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 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.
