Sustain CR's work this 2025 year-end season and beyond!

Every gift helps us dismantle, change, and build toward PIC abolition.

Sustain CR's work this 2025 year-end season and beyond! image

Dear friends and supporters of Critical Resistance,

In 2025, we have witnessed and experienced increasingly complex threats from authoritarianism, colonial violence, surveillance, and repression. At Critical Resistance (CR), we remain firm that the antidote to fascism is prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition. Our fight for liberation is armed with robust strategy, critical analysis, and coordinated action - and is bolstered by the resilience and commitment of our community. We know that together we are stronger than the opposition!

This year, Critical Resistance (CR) has advanced our efforts to make PIC abolition tangible and irresistible. We have done so by winning significant campaign victories, creating concrete organizing tools to further abolitionist analysis and action, and supporting international and cross-sector liberation struggles. We also invested energy in further enhancing CR’s ability to strategize and equip ourselves to weather crises ahead. Your unwavering support has been crucial in enabling these accomplishments, fostering environments of resistance, and strengthening our collective capacity for sustained action against the PIC.

Your generosity is crucial to our ability to sustain campaigns and projects, facilitate strategy and struggle across cages, create and distribute abolitionist organizing tools, and build power alongside allied organizations. With your help this year, we…

  • Won the years long fight for the closure of CRC Norco! CR organized alongside California coalition partners to bring legislative and public pressure to a breaking point, compelling Governor Newsom to finally announce the closure of the dilapidated facility in Riverside County, and fought back against cooptation of our movement’s wins by ICE
  • Organized with New York coalition partners to build up community resistance against immigrant detention by hosting days of action, community forums, phone zaps targeting legislators, and more.
  • Convened dozens of movement organizations to strengthen strategy and action for cross-wall organizing and strengthened our prisoner correspondence programs through political education and revamped infrastructure
  • Published and distributed The Abolitionist newspaper Issue 43 on censorship and repression to over 5,000 people inside prisons, jails, and detention centers for free, and to hundreds of paid subscribers and movement partners. Issue 44 on cross-wall organizing is coming this December!

For over 25 years, CR has led the fight to dismantle systems of imprisonment, policing, and surveillance. Our organizing has been powered by thousands of people offering their time, effort, and resources. As we hone our fighting form for the work ahead to abolish the PIC, and as we work tirelessly to broaden our reach and deepen our impact, we are counting on your continued support of CR. We invite you to donate what you can to sustain our organizing, this year and the next.

This year-end season, we are working to raise $100,000 across the entire organization for our chapters, projects, and overall movement building work. We aim to raise -

We appreciate donations of your time, effort, and funds to sustain our organizing, this year and the next! You can donate by check, online here, with proceeds of stock donations, donor-advised funds, and more - CR has many ways you can give!

You can read more about our work at our full 2025 Year-End Letter here!