Changing the Terms of Struggle: Lessons from 10 years of Critical Resistance

Changing the Terms of Struggle: Lessons from 10 years of Critical Resistance

A Study and Struggle Event

Please join us for a discussion on lessons from the vision, strategy, and practice of Critical Resistance with longtime organizers Rose Braz and Rachel Herzing.

Wednesday August 13th 6:30-9:30pm

SF Friends (Quakers) Meetinghouse

65 Ninth St. SF (between Market and Mission)

Block and a half from Civic Center BART/MUNI

Wheelchair Accessible

In 1998, over three thousand people came together for Critical Resistance, a conference which advanced the movement against the prison industrial complex to the next level.  Out of this gathering, CR emerged as a national grassroots organization committed to ending societyís use of prisons and policing as an answer to social problems.  CR put forward both vision and strategy for abolition.  Drawing from the Abolitionist movement against slavery in the 1800s, CR has engaged in concrete struggles to end the prison system and develop community-based alternatives to mass incarceration.

In September of 2008 thousands will again converge in the Bay Area for CR10.  This Study and Struggle event is focused on drawing key lessons from the experiences of CR as a multiracial, membership based, non-hierarchical organization utilizing cutting edge strategies that work for immediate reforms and long term systemic change.  CR works to create/support alternative practices to address violence and safety with the goal of developing healthy and safe self-governing communities.  This is an opportunity to step back and reflect on CR so as to help all of us be more effective, dynamic, strategic and visionary in our work for liberation.

Study and Struggle is a Catalyst Project political education series designed to bring together left activists, organizers and intellectuals in a non-sectarian, movement building space to help develop political theory, vision and strategy.  We'd love to have you there.  Please bring friends and comrades.  You can RSVP to info@collectiveliberation.org and if you need childcare or translation, please let us know by August 4th

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