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This December, support organizing to build a strong abolitionist movement around the world!
Dear friends and supporters of Critical Resistance (CR),

For over 25 years, our mission ([link removed]) has been to build an international movement to end the prison industrial complex (PIC) by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. CR has stayed the course this year, strengthening organizing moves across freedom struggles and across geographies. CR’s ongoing work advances multi-year campaigns in coalition, brings together movement partners and imprisoned comrades to collectively develop strategies, and offers analysis and action that connect movements for liberation across borders and organizing sectors.
National Network Organizing

CR belongs to several national networks and frequently offers structural support, abolitionist analysis, and practical organizing strategies and tools.
CR is a participating organization of Rising Majority ([link removed]) , a coalition that commits to a shared vision and strategy that brings together multi-sector forces to amplify our collective power and to build alignment across our movements. Our 2025 work within Rising Majority consisted of setting up a robust abolitionist politic and framework for how to engage in Divest/Invest work, to aid participating organizations when launching campaigns.

CR is also part of the Building Beyond Policing ([link removed]) network (BBP), a national network of abolitionists working to build a world without policing. In 2025, our work in BBP centered on sharpening the network’s abolitionist frameworks and contributing to the development of a new membership and decision-making model, which will help BBP network organizations engage in more shared work in 2026.

Your support allows us to show up strongly in nationwide formations to advance work against the PIC.
Sustain CR's abolitionist movement-building in national formations! ([link removed])
Local, Regional, and National Convenings
CR participated in numerous events across our chapter cities and beyond, including panels on combating repression, and local book launch events on the functions of imprisonment. CR co-sponsored political education sessions on combating fascism with our comrades at the Center for Political Education ([link removed]) .

We attended events on challenging carceral surveillance and hosted movie screenings for Ashley Hunt's film "And Water Brings Tomorrow ([link removed]) " about multi-geographic fights against imprisonment.

We attended the 22nd Century Initiative conference ([link removed]) in Atlanta centered around rising authoritarianism. In our workshop at the Socialism Conference ([link removed]) in Chicago, we highlighted the Dignity Not Detention New York campaign and building abolitionist campaigns to end migrant detention.

If you want CR to speak at a gathering you or your comrades are hosting, or offer a workshop or presentation, let us know ([link removed]) ! And if you are in a local chapter city or region, sign up for the chapter's volunteer list ([link removed]) to stay notified about any events CR will host or participate in.
Your contributions allow us to host events, show up for our movement partner gatherings, and spread abolitionist analysis in panels, conferences, and other convenings!

Support CR's ability to host more abolitionist events in 2026! ([link removed])
International(ist) Movement-Building
The PIC is a global system and it must be combated across borders. Thus, we are deepening our international, anti-imperialist, and Global South movement partnerships. CR members attended international gatherings in The Philippines and South Africa to share abolitionist praxis and to build relationships with comrades globally. We also co-sponsored and boosted movement-wide anti-imperialist calls to action against war-making. If you or your organization is part of or building anti-imperialist alliances, let us know!

We continue to develop and offer political organizing tools with issues of The Abolitionist Newspaper. By highlighting analysis and organizing strategies across borders, we continue to learn from and share international freedom struggles countering fascism.

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The lessons on anti-authoritarian organizing from our 2021 issue on fascism and neoliberalism ([link removed]) remain timely, highlighting collective resistance to authoritarianism in Brazil, Mexico, and at the U.S.-Mexico border.
As then, solidarity across borders, nationality, and citizenship status remains of vital importance today. CR and our movement co-conspirators offer more organizing resources with an internationalist abolitionist lens. Our newest issue of The Abolitionist Newspaper, centered on cross-wall organizing, highlights the connections between internationalism and prisoner solidarity. Get a sneak peak at Issue 44 with the article, "Resisting ICE and Migrant Detention from the Inside Out ([link removed]) ."
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Support the newspaper with a paid subscription ([link removed]) to receive this new issue that's hot off the press! If a loved one is in a prison, jail, or detention center, and wishes to receive a free copy of the newspaper, sign them up here ([link removed]) !

Your gifts strengthen our capacity to build an internationalist movement with our analysis and actions.
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Our movement-building work across geography and sector is an integral part of Critical Resistance's mission to abolish the PIC. Your contributions support CR's organizing to dismantle the PIC globally and build the systems our communities need to thrive.

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 powered CR to run campaigns against policing, imprisonment, and surveillance; create tools to strengthen abolitionist organizing and analysis; and build and strengthen connections with movement partners across our interconnected fights.

Keep CR strong over the next decades of abolitionist work! We invite you to become a monthly donor today ([link removed]) and sustain 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!
🪩 Throw a House Party: Do you want to talk about abolition with your neighbors? House parties are a great way to help your communities learn more about abolition and CR! We can provide tools and materials to help. Set up a coffee chat below, and we can get to planning!
☕️ 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])

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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! Check out a sneak-peek - "Resisting ICE and Migrant Detention from the Inside Out ([link removed]) "

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

Our chapters in Portland, New York City, Los Angeles, and Oakland hosted annual prisoner solidarity mailing parties earlier this month. 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 during the holidays!

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Work with us! We're hiring for a Capital Campaign Director

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. The director will be integral to bringing a bold vision to life. Apply and learn more at bit.ly/CRCCDHiring.

CR exists in a vibrant movement ecosystem with lots of fantastic organizing materials and calls to action. Check these out!
* Tensions from Across the Seas: The Story of a Freedom Flotilla from South Africa to Palestine ([link removed]) - the second installment of the A Luta Continua zine series on global solidarity from Community Justice Exchange
* Demand more prison closures in the 2026 California state budget! ([link removed])
* Support Detention Watch Network's Communities Not Cages ([link removed]) campaign
* Support California Coalition for Women Prisoners ([link removed]) - going 30 years strong!
* Block & Build: Make It Abolitionist ([link removed]) - a new resource from Interrupting Criminalization

Critical Resistance is majority grassroots-funded. Donate today!
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