Only a few more days to support CR reach our 2022 fundraising goal! 

Dear Friends of Critical Resistance (CR), 

We put out the call for you to support CR’s campaign and project organizing — and you’ve shown us the value of our organizing through words, images, actions, and by helping us raise over $40,000 of our $45,000 goal thus far! Your resources and support are essential to keeping prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition in action through CR's campaigns, projects, political education, and movement partnerships. THANK YOU!

Will you help us get to our $45,000 goal by December 31, 2022?

Donate now to sustain CR!


Curious what CR has been up to this year?
Read our annual 2022 Year End Letter here!

In the final days of 2022, you can support CR reach our year-end goal by:

  • Donating generously - whether it’s $20, $200, $2,000, or $20,000 - no amount is too small or too large! Please support us by giving online or sending a check.
  • Becoming a monthly sustainer online or by check (some workplaces have giving programs!) to keep CR strong month to month.
  • Subscribing or donating to The Abolitionist, our bilingual newspaper that we send to imprisoned people for free twice per year.
  • Spreading the word to family and friends by sharing our website, posting on social media, and encouraging people to support CR (Share any of our fundraising flyers below!).

This month our year-end goal is to raise $45,000 from over 5,000 people for CR. That's just under $10/person! Having raised $40,000 so far, your generous support is crucial.
Can you make a gift this month?

Donate today to support strong CR's organizing against imprisonment from resisting immigrant detention in New York to fighting for prison closure in California, in solidarity with people locked up in jails, detention centers and prisons internationally.  Thank you for supporting us!

Toward liberation,

- Mohamed Shehk, Shirley Leslie, and Woods Ervin, CR National Co-Directors
- Nick DeRenzi, National Development Assistant
-and CR National Fundraisers

More Announcements

Want to contribute to organizing against immigrant detention in New York? Use this Dignity Not Detention toolkit and take action by pressuring NY decision makers to end ICE detention in NY! 

Your support strengthens CR’s organizing against immigrant detention in New York and beyond.

Eager to be more involved in the fight for CA prison closures? Join CURB for a rally and press conference in Sacramento on January 12th, 2023 to kick off the new year by advocating for a budget that invests in communities NOT corrections!

Send a letter to urge the CA Legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom to hold CDCR responsible in naming additional prison closures in 2023!

If you're part of a CA union, read our union letter and get on board for prison closure. Your contributions bolster our ability to engage in campaigns to close California prisons.

Looking to engage in CR’s prisoner solidarity organizing? Sign up to volunteer with one of our mail programs or our remotely-run phone lines!
Prisoner mail correspondence programs through our Oakland, Portland, and New York City chapters, and you can answer our phone lines from anywhere. Your people power and donations sustain CR’s strong prisoner solidarity organizing!

Want to support inside-outside movement building and political education across walls?: Check out 2022's final Issue of The Abolitionist newspaper

Issue 38 on labor struggles and PIC abolition has been printed and mailed to thousands of imprisoned people for free, as well as hundreds of outside, paid subscribers.

After CR Los Angeles hosted a fantastic launch event for the issue in early December, CR members coast to coast will continue distributing the paper throughout the spring of 2023. Check out the sneak peek early release articles on our website here, and subscribe today to support this vital organizing tool and project! Your paid subscriptions and donations make free subscriptions to imprisoned people possible. 
Bay Area: Critical Resistance is Hiring! 

Critical Resistance is looking for a Building and Project Manager to get CR's community space and 9,000 square foot building - Building People Power - up and running at 4400 Telegraph in North Oakland, CA. If you or someone you know has relevant experience, check out the job description and requirement on our website here, and apply today! 

Critical Resistance is majority grassroots-funded. Donate today!

#SustainCR with monthly donations or a one-time gift here.
Mural by Leslie “Dime” Lopez at 4400 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, 2019.
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