Building Resistance: Anti-Imprisonment Organizing in 2021 Thursday, December 9, 2021
4pm PST/ 6pm CST/ 7pm EST
Join us tomorrow for a webinar exploring several efforts against imprisonment in 2021 and how groups are assessing the landscape, increasing organizing power, and helping people change their conditions. Through presentations and discussion, we aim to highlight recent developments in anti-imprisonment organizing, and share organizing lessons and tools.
Featuring:
RAPP (Release Aging People in Prison)'s Laura Whitehorn,
Critical Resistance (CR) Oakland's Nick DeRenzi,
Community Justice Exchange's Sharlyn Grace
Moderated by Rachel Herzing, CRcommunity advisor, Center for Political Education
Sneak Preview of The Abolitionist Issue #36:What’s the Call? FREE THEM ALL - Organizing to Liberate Political Prisoners Our Winter 2021 issue of our newspaper heads to print next week, featuring articles on "Pathways toward Freedom," or strategies for getting people out of cages. Read the "sneak peek" online here, a group interview about defending and freeing political prisoners in the US and Palestine with Jericho Movement,RAPP, and Addameer Prisoner Support & Human Rights Association.
Check out a new toolkit for abolitionist educators, edited and compiled with Education for Liberation Network and published by AK Press! A vital resource to build critical and intentional connections to the growing movement for the abolition of the prison industrial complex, particularly in PreK-12 learning contexts.
NEW GEAR: Fresh Colors for "Building People Power" Tote Bags!
Purchase your Critical Resistance tote bag in *new* colors while we still have them in store! "Building People Power" signage by Oakland artist Dom Villeda. Totes now available in red with black ink and black with gold ink.
