Dear Critical Resistance supporters, friends and comrades,
We are in an unprecedented moment – the call has never been louder to dismantle policing, defend Black and indigenous lives, and build a world in which the prison industrial complex is obsolete. In solidarity with cities in uprising and communities across the country, we are making abolitionist common sense loud and irresistible together. The key to health and safety is not aggression, policing, and imprisonment, but healing, stability, and liberation.
In 2020, CR’s movement organizing has:
eliminated three policing units in Portland, OR;
advanced a campaign to permanently shut down a notorious jail in San Francisco, CA;
brought together over 100,000 people for educational webinars in the past three months;
and created a national network of abolitionist organizations to strengthen this fight.
Mural by @LaDimeUna for on 4400 Telegraph Ave, North Oakland, California.
This is long haul work with important surges. Through it all, CR is committed to building an international movement to abolish the prison industrial complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe— and inviting us to build the word we need. Every gift helps us advance abolition. Thank you!
Cheers,
Jess Heaney, Shirley Leslie, and the CR National Fundraising Committee
P.S. We have new Building People Power shirts, hoodies, crewneck sweaters and totes! This special design is a collaboration between Critical Resistance and Dom Villeda of Treat U Nice signs, originally made for the building at 4400 Telegraph in Oakland, now wearable for you! Check them out: www.criticalresistance.org/gear
You can…
Donate generously. We’ll put amounts of $15, $50, $500, or $50,000 to best use! You cangive online or send a check in the mail.
Become a monthly sustainer online or by check (some workplaces have giving programs!).
Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020, many of our events & talks have been moved online. Luckily, this has allowed us to more easily archive our events and make each one more accessible to abolitionists and supporters around the world.
