A US-based, national grassroots organization working to build an international movement to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC). #AbolitionNow

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Abolitionist #44 Launch Party 📆 THIS SUNDAY - mailchi.mp/criticalresistanc…
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Join CRLA on Dec 7 to send solidarity cards inside - mailchi.mp/criticalresistanc…
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⚖️It is illegal to deport people for political speech, and the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil sets a dangerous precedent. If they can disappear a campus activist for Palestine, they can disappear you. We have the power to fight back to protect these rights, so let’s get to work. 1/2
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Only 14 out of 215 House Dems signed letter demanding release of #MahmoudKhalil. This is exactly what I mean re how racialization of Palestinians as security threats obscures fact that they are canaries in the coal mine. Protecting them is protecting all. newrepublic.com/post/192606/…
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Yesterday, we issued a travel advisory urging individuals from certain countries to avoid international travel due to the potential implementation of a new travel ban by the Trump administration. This advisory affects lawful permanent residents, students, workers, tourists, and medical patients from the following countries: Afghanistan​, Iraq​, Iran​, Libya,​ Palestine/Gaza,​ Pakistan, Somalia​, Sudan​, Syria​, Yemen. Learn more: tinyurl.com/bdfp33mt
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ICE is now detaining immigrants at Guantanamo Bay. While unsurprising given Trump’s current onslaught, returning to actively using Guantanamo Bay shows his desire to shock but is also emblematic of the recent turn toward a “tough on crime” orientation. bit.ly/gitmoCR

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TODAY: Please take just 1 minute of your time to send a message supporting the freedom of Kelli. Every voice makes a different.
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📣 Join us in fighting for #FreedomForKelli today by writing to @CAGovernor and urging him to commute this Black trans woman who has spent decades in prison working to make others safer. Toolkit here: bit.ly/freedom4KB
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Join the fight to #CloseCAPrisons today 📲 bit.ly/CURBsubscribe As climate crises escalate, we echo recommendations named in @ellabakercenter’s #HiddenHazards report (bit.ly/hiddenhazards) calling for releases, more prison closures in areas vulnerable to climate change, and the creation implementation of rapid release policies. #CareNotCages #EnvironmentalJustice #CaBudget #ClimateChange
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PLEASE DONATE WHATEVER YOU CAN & SHARE: ❤️‍🩹 Youth Justice Coalition is raising Emergency Funds to directly support currently & formerly incarcerated youth & their parents who are impacted by the L.A. fires & systemic harm. 🫶🏿🫶🏽❤️‍🩹 tinyurl.com/yjc-donate #FreeTheYouth
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Whether against prisons, jails, or detention centers, support organizing against cages anywhere and everywhere. Sustain CR’s campaigns against imprisonment! Read all about CR's gains in 2024: criticalresistance.org/updat… & Give today: bit.ly/CR2024yearend
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#FightFascismWithAbolition PIC abolition is central to anti-fascist analysis & organizing. Support CR’s ability to provide sharp abolitionist analysis & organizing tools. See more: criticalresistance.org/updat… Give today at bit.ly/CR2024yearend #AbolitionNOW #SustainCR
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Immigrants Begin 13th Hunger Strike This Year at Tacoma Detention Center #AbolitionNow #AbolishICE #FreeThemAll peoplestribune.org/2024/12/i… via @peoplestribune

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Tonight in #PortlandOregon: Come through & write messages of solidarity to all of our imprisoned comrades with @CR_PDX #AbolitionNow #HolidayMailingParty #PrisonerSolidarity #CareNotCages #WriteThemAll #FreeThemAll #BringOurLovedOnesHome #CriticalResistance
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This #GivingTuesday: Support #MutualAidForAbolition & give to CR's #TheZacharyProject, a mutual aid fund for abolitionist organizers. Help CR raise $90,000 for our work nationally by the end of #2024 too! #AbolitionNow #GrassrootsPower #GrassrootsFundraising #Donate
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WRL contributed to latest issue of @C_Resistance's The Abolitionist. Sneak a peak: instagram.com/p/DCmc26kPA4C/…
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Stand with Palestine, stand with labor. Stop weapons to apartheid Israel. Take action now.
HUGE. @SEIU with 2 million members, comes out publicly in support of @SenSanders' Joint Resolutions of Disapproval likely to be voted on this Wednesday. Sen. @ChrisVanHollen and @SenWarren have also announced their public support as has @jstreetdotorg. TAKE ACTION: We're at nearly 100,000 letters to the Senate. Tell your Senators to vote YES on the JRDs: mpoweraction.org/blockarms
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Join us for our 2024 Giving Circle, a series of 5 online sessions about fundraising as an organizing tool. Sharpen your abolitionist analysis & take action by fundraising for #CriticalResistance. More info & register by Nov 18: bit.ly/CR2024givingcircle

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Congress is voting on a bill (HR 9495) that would give the federal gov unfettered power to strip any nonprofit org of its 501c3 status that it claims is "supporting terrorism," w/o having to disclose evidence for its claims. Take action now to stop this: actionnetwork.org/letters/te…
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Want to make this very clear: *Because* Biden is fully supporting the most fascist right wing gov in Israel's short history, he is ceding ground to fascist right wing forces in the US. The blame is on Biden's admin & them alone, yet we will all suffer the consequences come 2024.
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🔥 New Letter to the Editor in the @sfchronicle by CURB's own Brian Kaneda on the harms #Prop36 would cause: sfchronicle.com/opinion/lett… "Real solutions — like funding for drug treatment, mental health care and housing — are critically underfunded. If California’s handling of the addiction, mental health and housing crises, as the Chronicle suggests, is a “shameful” failure, why support a measure that will only worsen them?" #NoOnProp36 #PrisonSpendingScam
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