Tomorrow join us for our annual webinar with abolitionist organizing discussing the movement for PIC abolition in the face the COVID-19 pandemic
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Join us tomorrow for a national webinar
** Abolition is Essential:
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** Organizing Against the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC)
in the Face of Pandemic
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** Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 3pm PST / 6pm EST
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** RSVP here: bit.ly/CR_webinar ([link removed])
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Last year on March 30, 2020, Critical Resistance and a powerful cast of movement partners came together for “Organizing Against Toxic Imprisonment in the Face of Covid-19 ([link removed]) ,” a webinar rapidly organized to bring us all together and prepare to fight the dual crises of a pandemic and people living in cages. Now one year into the pandemic, we are eager to hear from our comrades and fellow movement-builders: What has this past year looked like? What have we accomplished? What did we try? What did we learn? What did we win? What do we have yet to do?
This past year included uprisings against policing, surges in creative socially-distanced organizing, fiery grassroots electoral organizing, dogged commitment to community needs through mutual aid and state advocacy, and staggering loss. In this year's webinar, we will learn from organizers across the country who are fighting against imprisonment, policing, surveillance, immigration criminalization; from each of their vantage points in the abolitionist struggle in order to reflect on the past year and uplift lessons from specific campaigns. Come learn ([link removed]) about ways to strengthen your campaigns and how to support our communities inside and outside prisons during the pandemic.
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Speakers Include:
* Marlene Ramos, Critical Resistance
* Hamid Khan, Stop LAPD Spying
* Colby Lenz, CA Coalition for Women Prisoners
* Mizue Aizeki, Immigrant Defense Project
* Sheila Nezhad, Reclaim the Block
* Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun, National Freedom Movement
Moderated by Woods Ervin, Critical Resistance
*Closed Captioning will be provided*
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Our latest Annual Report: As we enter the second quarter of 2021, we want to share with you our 2020 Annual Report ([link removed]) , a roundup of work through the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thank you for supporting Critical Resistance and helping us make abolition irresistible. Despite the odds, we joined forces with old and new partners and movements in 2020; together we shifted power away from the PIC and toward our communities. Onward for 2021!
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New Issue of The Abolitionist! Check out the latest issue of CR's newspaper, The Abolitionist, #34, with features on fascism and neoliberalism. Learn what's in the issue, read a sneak peek, and sign up for paid subscription or sign up a prisoner for a free subscription all here ([link removed]) .
New Abolitionist Organizing Resources: ([link removed]) Check out a new website for the defund policing movement ([link removed]) and this new video ([link removed]) by Critical Resistance co-founder and former CR staffer and member Rachel Herzing interviewing some long-time abolitionist organizers and educators for "Advice to New Abolitionists."
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