Prosecution is economic violence because few can afford the expense of a legal defense. Organizers have to sustain a long-haul campaign w/ small donations from many ppl to cover legal defense fees -- please continue to amplify this effort! http://bit.ly/tracyfund #TowardAbolition
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DAY 8 Action 1
#TowardAbolition It's#FreeLeLe day! Plain & simple,#AlishaWalker is in prison bc our society punishes Black women for defending themselves & treats sex workers as disposable. Every Tues, we're asking folks to demand@GovPritzker#FreeThemAll, including LeLe.pic.twitter.com/32WmgiTam7
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For action 1, please help uplift
#FreeLeLe by emailing/calling/tweeting@GovPritzker to#FreeThemAll including LeLe from IL jails, prisons & detention centers during a deadly pandemic -- it's indefensible that Pritzker keeps people trapped in his anti-Black, anti-survivor prisonsNäytä tämä ketju -
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@supporthosechi http://bit.ly/AlishaAdvocate toolkit for scripts. You may also find S&P's analysis helpful in writing: https://survivedandpunished.org/analysis/ Lift up the demand to free ALL imprisoned sex workers as we demand#FreeThemAll - ending gender violence requires sex worker liberation.Näytä tämä ketju -
DAY 8 Action 2
#TowardAbolition Pls boost/donate Alisha's post-release fund run by#FreeLeLe team@supporthosechi & help them meet $10,000! Alisha is a beloved leader in our anti-GBV community & taught us so much abt interlink of SW justice + abolitionhttps://gf.me/u/x4pu3aNäytä tämä ketju -
#TowardAbolition Chrystul Kizer was a child, victimized & sexually exploited by an adult. Black girls have the right to resist sexual violence + the right to survive, but DA Graveley is criminalizing Chrystul for defending herself. Read abt#FreeChrystul: https://freechrystul.wordpress.com/ pic.twitter.com/Cs1GyP8C2u
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Follow
@mkeblackandpink for#FreeChrystul info. Chrystul's request for reduced bail was denied yesterday, even w/ COVID19 presenting new, heightened risk to Chrystul's safety. We know that Chrystul is a survivor and that her actions saved her life! Let's help#FreeChrystul team.Näytä tämä ketju -
DAY 9 Action 1
#TowardAbolition Call or email DA Michael Graveley & demand he DROP ALL CHARGES against Chrystul, a child human trafficking survivor, for acting in self-defense. (262)-653-2400 Michael.Graveley@da.wi.gov Scripts & postcard to download: https://freechrystul.wordpress.com/contact-the-da/ pic.twitter.com/o27UxA4azB
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DAY 9 Action 2
#TowardAbolition Write a message of love to Chrystul and let her know she is not alone! Writing letters to criminalized survivors helps to dismantle isolation, creating pathways for connection, collaboration, and coalition. Address & more:https://freechrystul.wordpress.com/write-to-chrystul/ …Näytä tämä ketju -
DAY 10 Action 1
#TowardAbolition Learn abt CeCe McDonald, a beloved artist & leader in the abolitionist anti-GBV mvmt. CeCe is a Black trans woman & a survivor of white supremacist, transphobic violence+the PIC. CeCe's bio@bcrwtweets: https://bcrw.barnard.edu/fellows/cece-mcdonald/ … Art:@micahbazantpic.twitter.com/szJMPQlxE9
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CeCe &
@prisonculture narrated this series of educational videos for#SurvivedandPunished. These videos cover feminist abolitionist freedom campaigns#FreeLeLe,@freebresha,#FreeKyPeterson,#FreeParisKnox,@freemarissanow and Free Joan Little.https://survivedandpunished.org/educational-videos/ …Näytä tämä ketju -
Check out "I Use My Love to Guide Me" CeCe joined prison abolitionists Reina Gossett &
@deanspade in conversation abt her experiences surviving trauma + impossible situations & the importance of collective organizing for ppl facing systems of violence.http://bcrw.barnard.edu/i-use-my-love-to-guide-me/ …Näytä tämä ketju -
DAY10 Act2
#TowardAbolition In 2011@HennepinAtty Mike Freeman prosecuted CeCe for self-defense from white supremacist, transphobic attack. He ALSO criminalized Amreya Shefa, Black immigrant survivor for self-defense from rape. His career is built on prosecuting Black survivors.pic.twitter.com/I7QhPqvCGf
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This Fri, 6/12, Shefa has a pardon hearing. Tell anti-Black, anti-survivor
@hennepinatty Mike Freeman to drop his opposition to#pardonShefa. Shefa should be pardoned & reunited with her children and loved ones in community. Action toolkit w/ scripts:http://bit.ly/PardonShefaNäytä tämä ketju -
#PardonShefa thread w/ more info:https://twitter.com/survivepunish/status/1271063835609165824 …
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DAY 11 Action 1
#TowardAbolition@c_c_w_p & allies are demanding CA grant a budget request for reparations for historic + contemporary survivors of forced sterilization. We mentioned#AB3052 (reparations for survivors bill in CA) in Day 2. Sign & share:http://chng.it/p256d85MYqNäytä tämä ketju -
"At this transformative moment, when we can no longer tolerate Black lives being taken by the state or the eugenic sacrifice of vulnerable people to a pandemic, we demand CA work to end state violence against WoC + disabled communities."
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DAY 11 Action 2
#TowardAbolition@CACorrections is failing castrophically in responding to COVID19 & putting lives at risk.@c_c_w_p & S&P CA inside members have reported egregious neglect and abuse.#CIWCovidAbuse 1st read/share: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Woman-s-prison-journal-State-inmate-s-daily-15334701.php …pic.twitter.com/Vr02owk4yv
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Now call & email! *
@GavinNewsom
916-445-2841
* Ralph Diaz, @CACorrections
916-324-7308 x4
* You can submit comment to @CAgovernor: https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/ Visit http://bit.ly/CIWCovidAbuse for scripts/graphics. None of these demands have been met yet. What's up@GavinNewsom?pic.twitter.com/TeD622thlg
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We're taking today to rest & catch up on other tasks -- be back tomorrow with two actions
#TowardAbolition!
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DAY 12 Action 1
#TowardAbolition@GlitsInc is raising $ to create a permanent place to house and support Black trans people in NYC. Housing is one of the primary ways to stay safe & DV is a leading cause of women's homelessness. Please boost & donate: https://swopbehindbars.giv.sh/b9d2 pic.twitter.com/ByBASGpnJ8
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Housing security means less interaction with law enforcement and less risk of experiencing violence overall. Let's help
@GlitsInc sign 2 leases & buy 2 buildings so they can help house Black trans people and create safer communities for us all!https://swopbehindbars.giv.sh/b9d2Näytä tämä ketju -
DAY 12 Action 2
#TowardAbolition A couple days ago, we asked you to email/call DA Mike Graveley to#FreeChrystul after her bail was denied (during a pandemic, no less).@FreeChrystul team has a long battle up ahead -- can you help boost their legal fund?http://fnd.us/FreeChrystulKizer?ref=sh_05HINBrxAVY05HINBrxAVY …Näytä tämä ketju -
Both housing injustice and prosecution are economic violence waged against our communities & are state-sanctioned forms of sexual, domestic, and gender-based violence. Grassroots fundraising helps us meet immediate material needs of survivors in ways the state can never conceive.
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DAY 13 Action 1
#TowardAbolition Study#CopsandCages Twitter chat --@c_c_w_p, S&P and allies clarify the connection btwn policing & prisons as demands for#AbolitionNow are being made everywhere.pic.twitter.com/o4Q83Edvxd
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We answer 7 q's for the
#CopsandCages twitterchat: 1. What's it like to be policed behind bars? 2. What are the connections btwn police violence in the streets, prisons + detention centers? 3. How do police in/out of prisons use gender&sexual violence as a form of control? (cont)Näytä tämä ketju -
4. How does antiblack state violence connect btwn policing + prisons? 5. How do police hide the violence they commit behind bars? 6. Strategic coalitions to be made btwn
#AbolishPolice,#AbolishICE &#AbolishPrisons? 7. How can we support incarcerated ppl & move#TowardAbolition?Näytä tämä ketju -
As hundreds of thousands are mobilizing in the U.S. to meaningfully move toward
#AbolishPolice#AbolishPrisons &#AbolishICE, we are grounded in our commitment to state violence in all its forms and the abolition of the nation-state, the main driver of violence in our lives.Näytä tämä ketju -
DAY 13 Action 2
#TowardAbolition Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political educ & organizing group led by stimulant+opioid using low-income, survival, or street-based sex workers. Please donate/boost their fundraiser https://www.gofundme.com/f/w-ma-street-worker-leader-stipends …Näytä tämä ketju -
Sex worker liberation is necessary for the end of gender violence. As an abolitionist org, we owe much to our SW members + allies who've been working to
#Decrim sex work. Support WCIIA a grassroots sex worker formation provide stipends for their members! https://www.gofundme.com/f/w-ma-street-worker-leader-stipends …Näytä tämä ketju -
DAY 14 Action 1
#TowardAbolition Tues is#FreeLeLe day! Let's honor all the ways we choose to survive & affirm our right to resist in the face of violence, enacted by indivs or the state. We can honor#AlishaWalker & her agency by continuing to mobilize for her freedom.pic.twitter.com/ymDqRduDJt
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“I strongly support a pardon for Amreya Shefa, who's coming before the MN Board of Pardons on 6/12. I urge you to drop your opposition to her pardon."