Can you support our annual Prisoner Solidarity Postcard Mailing and newspaper subscription drive?
Every year in the wintertime, Critical Resistance sends a note of solidarity, hope, and encouragement to all of the 7,500+ subscribers of The Abolitionist newspaper that are currently locked up in jails, detention centers, and prisons.
Are you in one of our chapter cities? Please help send cards across prison walls to our people! To pull off this ambitious and meaningful effort, we engage our movement communities in Portland, OR; New York, NY; Oakland and Los Angeles, CA. See here for dates and places, or follow your local chapter on Facebook. We will have blank cards for you to send to loved ones in prison, and we invite you to help us with our annual mailing. Even if you can't join us, please consider making a donation in support.
Today is #GivingTuesday & I'm supporting imprisoned ppl who read The Abolitionist paper! Join me: https://bit.ly/2Kca7xO @C_Resistance
ABOUT THE 2019 PRISONER POSTCARD...
This piece of art is called Padayon (Move On), created by Eduardo Sarmiento. Sarmiento is a political prisoner and a peace consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), an umbrella organization fighting for national freedom and democratic rights of the people. He was arrested by the Philippines police and military without warrant in 2009, and convicted on trumped up, politically motivated charges in 2013.
Thank you to comrades with SELDA who shared this art with us! SELDA is an organization of political prisoners and former political detainees in the Philippines.
About our prisoner mail programs and abolitionist organizing across prison walls...
An integral part of Critical Resistance's work has been communicating, learning, and organizing with imprisoned people. This has included uplifting prisoner demands such as the calls to end solitary confinement, pressuring officials against repression such as mail and package restrictions, publishing political analysis and art from imprisoned activists, generating reports against the conditions of imprisonment to support campaigns, and co-developing educational resources.
Your donations and The Abolitionist subscriptions support this essential abolitionist strategy to organize with and empower people who are fighting behind prison walls.
"Resistance is not futile" by Mr. G. Anthony Topete, who is imprisoned at RJ Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, CA. Issue 30 of The Abolitionist.
A gift of $15 gift provides one prisoner (and the people they share it with) three issues of The Abolitionist and includes a one-year subscription for you.
$30 supports subscriptions for three prisoners and yourself.
Give $200 to pay for the paper going to 20 imprisoned readers and all the people they share it with.
Together, we will reach over 7,500 prisoners this year (that's 1,000 more than in 2018!) and even more in 2020.
