Support CR's work against imprisonment and immigrant detention!
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This December, support our fights to end imprisonment and immigrant detention!
Dear friends and supporters of Critical Resistance (CR),

The connection between criminalization and imprisonment has made itself ever-clearer over the past few years. The logics, tools, and practices of abducting and disappearing our people are interdependent with the capacities to cage them. Our organizing wins are also connected and can have longstanding and cascading effects. When there are fewer facilities to cage people, it becomes more difficult to arrest and criminalize our community members. CR understands these connections and aims to fortify all our movements for liberation by tackling the prison industrial complex (PIC) as a whole. By severing the connections between its parts, and build bridges across all our intersecting freedom struggles, we will make our fights easier and more winnable in the future!
Sustain CR's work to shrink capacities to cage our communities! ([link removed])
In California, CR Oakland (CROAK) and CR Los Angeles (CRLA) achieved a major win in their multi-year fight, alongside the Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) coalition, to close 10 California prisons. California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) in Norco, CA. will close by Fall 2026! This victory is thanks to steadfast grassroots organizing, community power, and a year's worth of relationship-building CRLA co-led outside the prison. This is an incredible achievement amidst the authoritarianism and repression that has been wielded so brazenly by politicians. Additionally, AB 137 was signed into law and gives Californians new tools to prevent ICE from taking over closed state prison sites.

Our members’ efforts to advance coalition planning, community outreach, legislative strategy, media and communications efforts, and relationship-building with people inside California prisons and their loved ones will seed the ground for future closures. As we celebrate our wins, we will defend our victories by ensuring closed facilities are not repurposed to cage immigrants. And we will continue organizing for state prison closures and against prison expansion.

Campaign partners convened this summer to strategize what the next phase of organizing toward prison closures will look like, integrate strategies that are responsive to intensifying conditions of immigrant detention, and foster deeper organizing alongside formations combating the caging of immigrants.
Demand more California prison closures in the 2026 state budget! ([link removed])
The federal government has shown interest in transforming California prisons into immigrant detention centers. CR and our comrades are highlighting the connected systems of both policing — ICE to LAPD — and of imprisonment — state prisons to detention centers — and amplifying support to our movement partners in these fights.

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We invite you to sign these petitions to get ICE out of FCI Dublin ([link removed]) and to end CoreCivic’s recent and egregious conversion ([link removed]) of the previously closed California City Correctional Facility into an immigrant detention center.
In addition to addressing the repurposing of old prisons into immigrant detention centers, CRLA is combating the deployment of ICE agents within our communities through their work with the Community Self Defense Coalition LA ([link removed]) . The chapter has participated in rapid response community patrols to warn of ICE presence, and hosted community defense trainings. Arrests and detention are linked, and CR aims to cut off all points of access between our communities and the systems that cage and disappear us.

Dignity Not Detention New York: CR New York City with Abolish ICE NY/NJ coalition

On the East Coast, Critical Resistance NYC (CRNYC) is continuing its organizing within the Abolish ICE New York/New Jersey Coalition, and serving as a leader in the Dignity Not Detention (DND NY) Campaign ([link removed]) to end immigrant detention across the state ([link removed]) .
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Combating immigrant detention has become even more urgent with the Trump Administration’s violent anti-immigrant rhetoric and deployment of militarized forces across the country, including ICE and the National Guard. CRNYC members have continued to support overall strategic planning for the coalition, engage in outreach and base-building, advance media work, and support the participatory defense of people caged in immigrant detention.

In 2025, CRNYC members contributed to legislative mobilizations, ongoing phone zaps, relationship-building with people in Orange County, and overall campaign strategy. The chapter and our movement partners within the campaign look forward to this next phase of work to end immigrant detention in New York.
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Our work against imprisonment, including immigrant detention, is an integral part of Critical Resistance's mission to abolish the PIC. Your contributions support CR's organizing, which has ripple effects across all our intersecting freedom fights!

Thank you for your commitment to advancing abolition.

In struggle and solidarity,

- Critical Resistance
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Sustain CR this year-end season: Help us raise $100,000 by the end of 2025! ([link removed])

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! We invite you to become a monthly sustainer today ([link removed]) and continue contributing to the long-term project of PIC abolition.

This year-end season, we are raising $100,000 across the organization ([link removed]) for our chapters, projects, and overall movement building work. Our goal is to raise:
* $63,000 (in one-time gifts) and $2,500 (in monthly gifts) for the organization at-large
* $12,000 for CR's New York City chapter ([link removed])
* $10,000 for The Zachary Project ([link removed])
* $4,000 for CR's Oakland chapter ([link removed])
* $3,600 for CR's Portland chapter ([link removed])
* $2,500 for CR's Los Angeles chapter ([link removed])
* $2,000 for CR's new Central Appalachia chapter ([link removed])
* Subscriptions for The Abolitionist Newspaper ([link removed]) .

We appreciate donations of your time, effort, and funds to sustain our organizing, this year and the next!
Ways to Support CR This Month: Exciting ways to give!
💹 Donate Stock Proceeds: We now accept stock donations via Every.org ([link removed]) !
💹 Make a DAF donation: Donate through a donor-advised fund via check or online ([link removed]) .
☕️ Book a Coffee Chat: Want to hear more about CR's work, get to know our CR organizers, or plan a fundraiser with us? Let’s talk. Sign up for a call with our Development Team here! ([link removed])

Check out more ways to give here. ([link removed])
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Give CR Merch: Last Call for holiday orders!
Another way to show you’re on "Team Abolition" is by wearing CR’s merch! Give the gift of abolition today by treating yourself or a loved one to CR hoodies, crewnecks, shirts, and totes ([link removed]) . If you want your CR merch to arrive before the holidays, please place your orders no later than Thursday, December 11.

Thank you for joining our chapters' annual Prisoner Solidarity mailing parties!

CR Portland, New York City, Los Angeles, and Oakland all hosted annual prisoner solidarity mailing parties this past weekend. We gathered with members, volunteers, and partners to write messages of love and solidarity to all of CR's imprisoned comrades. Thank you for contributing to such lovely events. Our imprisoned comrades will receive your well wishes soon!

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Issue 44 of The Abolitionist Newspaper on cross-wall organizing is in print! Subscribe today to receive your copy ([link removed]) .

Issue 44 will contain a report-back of the 2025 Cross-Wall Strategy & Power Building Retreat. This is an issue you won't want to miss!

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Job Opening: Capital Campaign Director for project in North Oakland

CR seeks a Capital Campaign Director to drive and staff Building People Power (BPP)’s multi-year capital campaign, leading strategy, fundraising, donor engagement, and ecosystem coordination to complete the remaining raise and bring a bold vision to life. Apply and learn more at bit.ly/CRCCDHiring

CR exists in a vibrant movement ecosystem with many ways to plug in - here are a few movement calls to action!
* 12/16 - Community Self Defense Coalition LA - Community Patrols Training ([link removed])
* 12/18 - Oakland Arms Embargo ([link removed]) - Sign the Petition ([link removed]) and Pack the Port!
* Buy a zine pack from Detritus Books ([link removed]) to support legal costs for a community member ([link removed]) in ICE detention for transporting a box of zines.

Critical Resistance is majority grassroots-funded. Donate today!
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