Tools for Abolition and Organizing Highlights from 2021
Dear Critical Resistance friends and community,
We want to share with you a roundup of tools made this year for campaigns, projects and political education. We hope these are useful to communities and organizers who are challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. Here are some highlights from 2021:
Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators, co-edited by CR K12 Abolitionist Educators and the Education for Liberation Network. Buy a copy directly from CR here.
We also endorsed the 2021 launch of the DefundPolice.org website, an awesome tool hub. https://defundpolice.org/
Videos and multi-media
“Advice to New Abolitionists,” a video made by Rachel Herzing and Isaac Ontiveros in 2020, featuring interviews with several long-time abolitionists, including CR members. Published in March 2021 on CR’s Youtube page here.
“Close Prisons in California” Graphic by CR Oakland members Sarah Fathallah and Nick DeRenzi, made in the “Posters for the People” Summer 2021 online class with Dignidad Rebelde and the Center for Political Education.*
“Discover your humanity and your love of revolution,” George Jackson poster by Melanie Cervantes, 50th anniversary edition. Available here.
“Reflecting on the Roots of Black August & George Jackson” article by Critical Resistance, here.
VIDEO INTERVIEW: “Minister King X on The Abolitionist newspaper” by The Abolitionist editorial collective, recorded at Freedom Fridays at 4400 Telegraph. Watch here.
We hope you will use these tools, share them with your networks, and expand the reach of their impact. Thank you for helping distribute these tools and grow the movement for abolition.
This month our goal is to raise $50,000 from 5,000 people for CR. That's $10/person. We have raised $25,000 so far. Your generous support is essential.Can you make a gift this month and sustain this essential organizing? Thank you for your solidarity.
Onward, Jess Heaney, Mohamed Shehk and Woods Ervin, CR National Co-Directors
Shirley Leslie, Development Coordinator, and CR National Fundraisers
