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Dear Friends, Comrades & Community,

Want to give your loved ones holiday gifts that make an impact in the world? Donate to Critical Resistance (CR) this holiday season and give your loved ones the gift that keeps on giving: abolition!

In order to build a strong international movement to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC), we need a dynamic leftist ecosystem of different formations and fronts of resistance. Every year, CR creates organizing resources to strengthen and fuel movements for liberation and to make PIC abolition common sense. These movement building resources include tips, guides, best practices, and strategies for organizing and campaign work against the PIC. We aim to distribute these resources far and wide to be applied in various local contexts internationally, and to cross-share analysis and reflection for landscape assessment to better shift our organizing terrains.
5 Ways to Support CR & PIC Abolition this Holiday Season:

#1.) Subscribe yourself or a loved one to CR’s newspaper The Abolitionist! You can sign up for a paid subscription ([link removed]) for yourself or another person. If you know someone who is locked up in a jail, detention center or prison and they would like to receive the paper, you can sign them up for a free subscription here ([link removed]) .
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#2.) Check out CR’s new website ([link removed]) and online resource hub ([link removed]) ! Earlier this year, CR launched a new website. While it is still a work in progress, our new website is designed to offer up-to-date movement and organizing news and analysis ([link removed]) , as well as connect people to abolitionist resources ([link removed]) of all kinds and to learn about CR’s history ([link removed]) , legacy ([link removed]) , and current work ([link removed]) .

#3.) Read and circulate another edition of CR’s “reformist reforms” poster series - “Policing & Militarism on Campus: Reformist Reforms vs Abolitionist Steps” - check out other organizing resources for abolition created by and for educators here ([link removed]) , and order your copy of Lessons In Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators ([link removed]) .
* Lessons in Liberation was designed for educators, parents, and young people, and it shines a light on innovative abolitionist projects, particularly in Pre-K–12 learning contexts. You can also check out the series of incisive and inspiring online conversations ([link removed]) held in Fall 2021 to celebrate the launch of the toolkit. Purchase your copy of the toolkit directly from CR TODAY! ([link removed])

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#4.) Get your “So Is This Actually an Abolitionist Proposal or Strategy?” ([link removed]) Binder! CR compiled this collection of resources with Interrupting Criminalization and Project Nia to aid in evaluation and reflection for PIC abolitionists. Assembled for the Summer 2022 Allied Media Conference, this collection is full of excerpts from resources frequently used as jumping-off points when thinking strategically about abolitionist organizing. Download from CR's website here ([link removed]) and use widely and boldly!

#5.) Buy CR merch and wear our gear: bundle up this winter in a CR sweatshirt or select your holiday reading through our online store! We have plenty of hoodies, crewnecks, shirts, and totes ([link removed]) for purchase. You can treat yourself or gift it to a loved one. Buying CR merch is a great way to sustain CR's organizing and wear your abolitionist heart on your sleeve!

Thank you for sharing your resources and keeping CR strong!

In struggle and solidarity,

-Critical Resistance


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Connect with CR this December: Support CR’s 2022 Prisoner Solidarity Annual Postcard Mailing!
CR is gearing up to send out our annual holiday postcard with beautiful art and a heartfelt message of solidarity to all our contacts inside prisons, jails, and detention centers. You can support this mailing by signing and mailing some of these postcards yourself. Upcoming December distribution events can be found here - sign up to participate today ([link removed]) !

You can also support by making a donation ([link removed]) toward sustaining prisoner solidarity organizing.
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Los Angeles: Join us in LA's Korea Town December 10!
We're celebrating the release of The Abolitionist's newest issue in Los Angeles and building Southern California power to close prisons statewide! Join us on December 10 from 12-3pm at La Casa Roja in Korea Town for CRLA's community event, sharing The Abolitionist #38 ([link removed]) , and connecting Los Angeles communities to the statewide campaign for prison closure with Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB). RSVP here! ([link removed])

Critical Resistance is majority grassroots-funded. Donate today!

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