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This year, Critical Resistance (CR) is advancing our organizing plans and deepening our connections to the inspiring, re-invigorated movement to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC). Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic,…
Dear friends and fellow travelers,
The challenges, loss and hardship of 2020 motivated us to organize with urgency, responsiveness and solidarity. As health, economic, and political crises escalated, abolition…
On March 30, 2020, Critical Resistance and a powerful cast of movement partners came together for “Organizing Against Toxic Imprisonment in the Face of Covid-19,” a webinar rapidly organized to…
In 2020, The Zachary Project supported our people secure safe housing after prison release, prevent evictions, purchase food and basic needs during Covid-induced crises, access mental health care resources, and…
A Benefit for Critical Resistance
HOST COMMITTEE
Amy Kisch * Angela Hennessy * Black Joy Parade * Bryant Terry * Calvin Williams * Cara Levine * Dana King * Deanna…
This year, the poignancy and the urgency of Black liberation is front and center of national, if not international, consciousness and action. On Saturday, June 13th, we humbly and enthusiastically…
Urgent support is needed for one of the only Black-led and Prisoner-led national newspapers, the SF BayView. A historic Black newspaper, the San Francisco BayView, needs your help to raise…
A Giving Circle and Workshop Serieswith CR Oakland4 Sessions:June 13, 20, 27, & July 11(no session on July 4)Oakland, CA
Come participate in a Giving Circle where you will deepen…
The Impact of The Zachary Project
“Being able to access the Zachary fund allowed me to pay my rent, which then allowed me to go through with a plan to…
“Being able to access the Zachary fund allowed me to pay my rent, which then allowed me to go through with a plan to seek more comprehensive mental health care.…