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DESCRIPTION:\n  Tonight, over 400 people are scheduled to attend Toward Abolitionist 
 Horizons, Critical Resistance's 25th Anniversary event. The event will 
 feature a\n    panel headlined by Dr. Angela Davis as well as Andrea 
 Ritchie of Interrupting Criminalization and coauthor of No More Police and 
 Ny Nourn of Asian Prisoner Support committee. The event will also feature 
 performances from Dancing Through Prison Walls, an organization that puts 
 together performances led by currently incarcerated people. \n\n\n\n\n\n  
 This evening's event is both to reflect on Critical Resistance's history, 
 discuss what the state of imprisonment and policing is\n    currently and 
 to resource the future of the organization's work. CR's current work 
 includes its role in Californian's United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) 
 coalition campaign to close 10 prisons by 2025. CR is also helping to 
 anchor the campaign to pass Dignity Not Detention\n    legislation in New 
 York State, which aims to cancel all Immigration and\n    Customs 
 Enforcement contracts with public and private facilities within the\n    
 state.  "I'm honored to celebrate Critical Resistance's 25th year\n      
 anniversary and pioneering movement work to end the prison industrial\n     
  complex,” said Ny Nourn.” Their work and\n      leadership paved the 
 way for me as an activist and for the movement to\n      abolish 
 immigration detention.”'\n\n\n\n\n\n  CR began in 1997 with a group of 
 activists and organizers that came\n    together to put on a conference at 
 UC Berkeley in 1998,\n        Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison 
 Industrial Complex\n    (PIC). Since then, CR has become a national 
 organization with chapters in\n    the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City 
 and Portland, Oregon. CR has\n    conducted several successful campaigns 
 and launched projects that both\n    popularized the concepts of the prison 
 industrial complex and PIC\n    abolition, while also winning successful 
 campaigns against prison and jail\n    expansion as well as policing 
 programs. \n\n\n\n\n\n  "Over the past quarter century, Critical 
 Resistance has shaped the\n    consciousness of generations about what is 
 possible, necessary for our\n    collective survival: abolition, now,” 
 says Andrea Ritchie.  “CR has\n    been foundational to my evolution as 
 an abolitionist - since I first\n    attended the Critical Resistance South 
 conference and read the Critical Resistance - INCITE! Statement on Gender 
 Violence and the\n        Prison Industrial Complex\n    twenty years ago, 
 I have turned to CR again and again for abolitionist\n    visions, 
 strategies, and practical tools that bring us closer to the world I\n    
 yearn for - one free from violence in all its forms, for all of us. I am\n  
   deeply honored to join in enthusiastic celebration of CR's rich legacy, 
 past\n    present and future."\n\n\n\n\n\n  Whether it was disrupting CA's 
 prison boom with the Stop Delano II campaign, uplifting the struggles of 
 incarcerated New\n    Orleaneans as part of the Amnesty for Prisoners of  
 Katrina Campaign or spotlighting solitary confinement by supporting the 
 historic prisoner hunger strikes in CA,  CR has consistently pushed 
 forward an abolitionist politic and\n    fought to whittle away at the PIC 
 and shift and power and resources toward\n    everyday people. Tonight's 
 celebration will acknowledge this work, celebrate\n    and help fuel the 
 organization's work moving forward. \n\n\n\n\n\n  Critical Resistance 
 seeks to build an international movement to end the\n      prison 
 industrial complex (PIC)\n        by challenging the belief that caging and 
 controlling people makes us\n        safe.\n      We believe that basic 
 necessities such as food,\n      shelter, and freedom are what really make 
 our communities secure. As such,\n      our work is part of global 
 struggles against inequality and powerlessness.\n      The success of the 
 movement requires that it reflect communities most\n      affected by the 
 PIC. Because we seek to abolish the PIC, we cannot support\n      any work 
 that extends its life or scope.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/05/05/18855853.php
SUMMARY:Toward Abolitionist Horizons: 25 Years of Critical Resistance with Angela Davis
LOCATION:McKenna Theatre\nSan Francisco State University\n1600 Holloway Avenue\nSan 
 Francisco, CA 94132 \n(or free live stream)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/05/05/18855853.php
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