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Dear Pacific NorthWest friends and supporters,
As 2024 drew to a close, Critical Resistance reflected on our daunting conditions ahead and why prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition is needed to… Dear Bay Area Friends,
THANK YOU to everyone who attended our annual Prisoner Solidarity Mailing Party! It was such a sweet turnout on December 8 with so many new faces.… Marcellus Williams, a Black client of the Innocence Project, is scheduled for execution Tuesday, September 24, 2024. Critical Resistance is joining the Innocence Project is calling upon all anti-prison advocates… Critical Resistance (CR) & its Editorial Collective for The Abolitionist Newspaper are working to pull together a pool of volunteers to support The Abolitionist Editorial Collective with transcriptions for our… On Tuesday, June 25, 2024, Critical Resistance (CR) printed the newest issue of The Abolitionist Newspaper to date, a bi-lingual, cross-wall political education and organizing project free to imprisoned people… In a time when our social safety net is facing BILLIONS in cuts, why does CDCR’s budget remain virtually untouchable? Governor Newsom’s budget creates a recipe for a cycle of… The New York City chapter of Critical Resistance (CRNYC) has been working hard to make abolitionist gains against the prison industrial complex at the local and state level.
NYC Mayor… Dear LA friends of Critical Resistance (CR),
Our Los Angeles chapters has been hard at work this year for prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition. We’d like to share some exciting… Today, on the fourteenth day of Black History Month 2024, Sitawa Jamaa was finally released from over 40 years in California (CA) prison, roughly 30 years of which were spent… Beloved comrade & imprisoned columnist of Critical Resistance’s cross-wall newspaper The Abolitionist, Stevie Wilson (along with other prisoners) has been getting harassed by a racist & homophobic guard (CO Harrison)…
Community is Resistance: Pushing for a People’s Budget!
Bay Area: Help CR Oakland Raise $3,500!
Stop Missouri’s Execution of Marcellus Williams: TAKE ACTION September 23!
Call for Volunteers: Become a Transcriber for The Abolitionist Newspaper!
Abolition Saves the Planet: Read all about it in Issue 41 of The Abolitionist Newspaper
Calling all Californians: Review CA’s Corrections Budget & Demand Newsom Closes more Prisons Now!
Mobilize & Connect with CR in New York!
2024 Winter to Spring Updates from CR Los Angeles (CRLA)
Welcome Home CA Prisoner Hunger Strike Leader & Elder, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa!
Phone Zap: Support Stevie Wilson, Imprisoned at SCI Dallas in Pennsylvania!