SPRING 2018 VOLUNTEER Critical Resistance NYC

http://criticalresistance.org/chapters/cr-new-york-city/

CR NEW YORK CITY

ORGANIZE WITH CRITICAL RESISTANCE NEW YORK CITY!

Contact CR New York and get involved:

Critical Resistance New York City
PO Box 2282
New York NY 10163

Phone: 212.203.0512
Email: crnyc@criticalresistance.org

PRISONER CORRESPONDENCE

CRNYC’s robust prisoner correspondence increases collaborations across prison walls in order to build stronger inside/outside organizing, uplift analysis and strategy of imprisoned people, and bolster prisoner perspectives and prisoner led advocacy. Below are some examples of this work.

• Resist Visiting Restrictions
• Eastern Region Review: Intl Conference on Penal Abolition

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VOLUNTEER NIGHT

Critical Resistance New York City hosts a monthly volunteer night to help us maintain connections with people imprisoned in New York and along the east coast, share information and resources, and develop abolitionist vision and strategy beyond prison walls. Join us on the third Wednesday of every month to volunteer and learn more about our work in New York and nationally.

WHEN: Every third Wednesday, every month, 7-9pm
WHERE: Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP), 147 W. 24th St., 5th Floor, New York, NY 10011
TRANSIT: 1 @ 23rd Street, C/E @ 23rd Street, or F/M @ 23rd Street
ACCESS: No ID is required for building entry. This office is accessible by elevator, please buzz and wait in the elevator to be brought up to the 5th FL.

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THE ATTICA INTERVIEW PROJECT

The Attica Interview Project was initiated by Critical Resistance to support prison closure organizing in New York. Through oral history and organizing we seek to document the continued legacy of repression, survival, and resistance at Attica. By producing media as a resource for building movement, we strive to highlight the experiences of formerly imprisoned people and their visions for transformation.

Critical Resistance would like this project to contribute to the broad struggle to end the violence of imprisonment, policing, surveillance, and political repression. More specifically, the Attica Interview Project works to connect people who lived through imprisonment at Attica before, during, and after the 1971 rebellion, and build their leadership in the fight to close it.

For these interviews, we will use a combination of video, recorded audio, and still images. Our documentation is grounded in a philosophy of self-representation – that people who participate determine how and when they are photographed and recorded. We strive to represent interview participants not as victims, but as agents of social change struggling individually and collectively to improve their lives and conditions.