2019 was an inspiring year: we made 225 presentations, garnered 87 media hits, launched the Abolitionist Training School, won two huge campaign victories, and brought on six new staffers! Thank you for keeping CR grassroots-powered!
Dear friends,
Critical Resistance (CR) has been rigorously putting our abolitionist politics into practice in our campaigns, projects, political education and movement-building efforts. This year has been filled with serious challenges, as well as powerful victories that we celebrate and amplify as beacons of possibility.
We are deeply appreciative of all that you have given us in building an abolitionist future—through your solidarity, joint action, generous donations, and boosting CR and the movement! None of this is possible without your support; together we are building people power! We invite you to celebrate our victories in the struggle and support CR this season—into the future.
We are majority grassroots-funded – so our work is only possible because of your support! Will you help us reach our $50,000 year end goal and make a gift to CR this month? Thank you for celebrating our wins and building for an abolitionist future with us.
Onward, toward liberation,
Jess Heaney and Shirley Leslie, Critical Resistance Development team
and the CR National Fundraising Committee
Image, top: CR Los Angeles at the victorious mobilization to stop jail expansion in LA (August 2019).
P.S. Your year-end donations help us reach our goals for the year and start 2020 off strong! #DismantleChangeBuild http://bit.ly/abolition2019
2019 Highlights: Celebrating our abolitionist wins,
Building an abolitionist future!
CR Los Angeles turned 15 this year and won a historic campaign!
CR Los Angeles (CRLA), the JusticeLA coalition, and Los Angeles (LA) communities defeated the huge $3 billion proposed construction plan for TWO jails in LA this year! In February, we stopped construction of a new women’s jail in LA County and, in August, successfully halted the second proposal for a new mental health jail facility. The task in front of us now is to ensure that LA County follows through on resourcing decentralized, community-based care—and that those resources truly reflect the communities who are directly impacted by the prison industrial complex.
Photos by CR members and Josiah Green (Los Angeles for Abolition event).
Join us in the abolitionist vision of healthcare, housing, education, and liberation- not cages or policing. Support our campaigns and projects to dismantle the PIC! You can…
Donate generously. We’ll put amounts of $15, $50, $500, or $50,000 to best use! You cangive online or send a check in the mail.
Become a monthly sustainer online or by check (some workplaces have giving programs!).
