We are reaching out to our movement partners and organizational supporters asking for your support with sponsorships. Sponsoring this event:

• helps subsidize tickets for formerly imprisoned people, youth, and low-income communities;*
• ensures the event participation is truly reflective of the movement we are building;
• helps to advance strategic grassroots organizing and cultural work against jail expansion and the violence of policing in the Bay Area, in Los Angeles, CA; Portland, OR, and New York, NY, and nationally;
• demonstrates community support for creative movement-building and rigorous, Left analysis in these dire yet inspiring times.

There are 4 levels, detailed below, which include tickets. You can sign up to sponsor here online, or reply to this email and send a check to Critical Resistance. Please let me know if you have questions. 

Movement donations also welcome at a scale that your organization can give. On the sponsorship page, please click on the DONATE button in the right column, farther down on the page. We will list your organization as a Movement Partner Sponsor. If you do a Movement Partner Sponsorship, please boost the event through emails, social media and publicizing it to your networks. 

Thank you for organizing with us! and keeping us well informed, thinking critically and ready to fight!

In Solidarity,
Jay

P.S. You can view the Facebook event here. Please share widely. 

Sponsorship Opportunities, all details found here.

$5,000- ABOLITIONIST FUTURE

$2,500- THE MOVEMENT BUILDER

$1,000- THE PRESENT STRUGGLE

$500- HISTORY OF RESISTANCE

$ Movement donations also welcome at a scale that your organization can give. On the sponsorship page, please click on the DONATE button in the right column, farther down on the page. We will list your organization as a Movement Partner Sponsor.

Celebrate: 20 Years of Dismantling the PIC View this email in your browser

Sunday December 9, 2018 Critical Resistance: 20 Years of Strategy and Struggle for Abolition Purchase your tickets here. Donate a community ticket.  Whether you’re purchasing your tickets to attend or sponsoring a ticket for a community member, make sure to save your space to celebrate CR's history with us and build for our collective abolitionist future. On December 9th, 2018, we are excited to host the incomparable author, educator and activist Angela Y. Davis in conversation with Black liberationist organizer Kamau Walton (Critical Resistance), anti-imperialist organizer and former political prisoner Linda Evans (All of Us or None), and firebrand Southern freedom fighter Mary Hooks (SONG, Southerners on New Ground) as they reflect on gains of the past 20 years, this current moment, and where we can go. The event will be held at the First Congregational Church in Oakland, CA. Movement reception and more details here! 2018 CR 20th Anniversary Host Committee: Carlton Edwards, Charlene Khoo, danni west, Ellen Barry, Jay Donahue, Jess Heaney, Marc Lamont Hill, Mariame Kaba, Mohamed Shehk, Rehana Lerandeau, Zakir Parpia, Zoe Willmott OUR HISTORY + OUR IMPACT Through advancing a critical understanding of prison industrial complex and abolition, CR has consistently inspired individuals, organizations and communities to take creative and practical steps to build a liberated future. Alongside other abolitionists, we have achieved many victories -- from successfully stopping the construction of new jails in New York to Los Angeles, to ending the use of racist gang injunctions in Oakland and stopping California's 20-year prison building boom. Our campaigns, vision and strategies have been shared and used as blue-prints across the US and internationally. We invite you to join us in celebrating the gains we have made together, feeding our minds and our spirits, and preparing for the pitched battle of the next 20 years. Every donation, ticket or sponsorship will amplify the vision of liberated communities and the fierce, joyful will of our people to fight to win. Poster design by Kate DeCiccio @k8Deciccio and Jules Retzlaff @Cerealforthekids. Thank you! DONATE + SPONSOR To make this inspiring event accessible to as many people in the greater Bay Area community and to support CR locally and nationally, we are asking you to make a donation here or sign up to sponsor the event here. All proceeds will benefit Critical Resistance to ensure that our work is funded now and into a future free from cages, the violence of policing, the dangers of borders and social control.  Every sponsorship will amplify the vision of liberated communities and the fierce, joyful will of our people to fight to win.  Learn more about sponsorship here.

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