Happy Juneteenth! We're taking #SixNineteen to demand @GavinNewsom #DefendBlackLives #LeadWithMercy, decarcerate & save lives. W/ a stroke of his pen, he could finally right some of the wrongs caused by an anti-Black criminal legal system + save thousands from the COVID outbreak.
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Many formerly & currently incarcerated members of S&P were sentenced to LWOP bc CA doles out not just punishment but *extreme* punishment to survivors for the ways they choose to survive violence+abuse w/ little or no support.
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DAY 19 Action 1
#TowardAbolition Check out the#DropLWOP campaign website to learn more about the movement to secure sentence commutations for all serving Life Without Parole in California: https://droplwop.com/ Sign & share the petition:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9SKKtMhABktrGZr_dWFVCO8FRMfWNFDLMcR7qVT3iSl2jZQ/viewform …Näytä tämä ketju -
#DropLWOP coalition has laid out a clear list of action steps on their website, which you can view here:https://droplwop.com/ways-to-help/Näytä tämä ketju -
Day 19 Action 2
#TowardAbolition Please support Niara, a Black trans woman given extreme sentencing for self-defense. Despite being subjected to transphobic, sexual violence, Niara has continued to struggle with dignity in the most inhumane conditions.https://freeniara.wordpress.com/Näytä tämä ketju -
Niara is asking folks 1) to donate directly to her via JPay & 2) to write or message her words of encouragement and care. See details including address:https://freeniara.wordpress.com/how-can-i-lend-support-for-niara/ …
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As always you can access best practices and principles for letter writing and names&addresses of people you can write inside on our website:http://survivedandpunished.org/letter-writing-action/ …
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DAY 20 Action 1+2
#TowardAbolition Follow@abolitionistfem#NYCcarenotcages Twitter chat (11-12am ET), which seeks to center Black + other marginalized GBV survivors’ needs and demands in the call to defund racist NYPD and the greater NYC carceral system.#InvestInSurvivorspic.twitter.com/OlSKfqOtVO
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S&P is in solidarity w/ NYC survivors calling for investment in housing+wellness + abolishing the crim legal system, a system rooted in racial, anti-trans/queer, sexual & domestic violence. We call for
#InvestInSurvivors +#AbolishNYPD bc we need both to end GBV.#NYCcarenotcagesNäytä tämä ketju -
Please take these 3 actions for
#NYCcarenotcages: 1. Read and share the open letter to@NYCMayor: https://bit.ly/3drLFpI 2. Sign to endorse: https://bit.ly/3dqhdwn 3. Tweet @ electeds: https://bit.ly/2AZWsdx#TowardAbolitionNäytä tämä ketju -
DAY 21 Action 1
#TowardAbolition Every Tues we call on@GovPritzker to#FreeLeLe and free every single person caged in IL to save lives amid a deadly disease outbreak. Folx inside are fighting for their lives, we rise up with them! Access the toolkit: http://bit.ly/AlishaAdvocate pic.twitter.com/JRVj7o38GN
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Incarceration is racial violence. Black people in your state face incarceration at astronomically higher rates
@GovPritzker. Mass decarceration is the only way to save lives in IL.#FreeLeLe and#FreeThemAll! (data:@PrisonPolicy)pic.twitter.com/xIJYt5Zn4l
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DAY 21 Action 2
#TowardAbolition Yest. we asked you to follow@abolitionistfem#NYCCareNotCages in solidarity w/ NYC survivors calling on NYC to radically#InvestInSurvivors & divest from and#AbolishCarceralSystems. You can read the open letter here:https://medium.com/@babyabolitionistfeminist/radically-invest-in-survivors-divest-from-and-abolish-carceral-systems-4928930ff13a …Näytä tämä ketju -
Tracy McCarter, a nurse, is one such NYC survivor, criminalized for selfdefense & being held on pretrial at Rikers. Tracy will need every bit of support we can give to survive prosecutorial & incarceration violence during the COVID crisis: http://bit.ly/tracyfund
#StandWithTracypic.twitter.com/0eyxJbSYGd
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DAY 22 Action 1
#TowardAbolition Pls boost & donate to@MySistahHouse's fundraiser for 20 tiny homes in TN for Black & brown trans women who are at higher risk of violence & housing discrimination! Housing keeps us much safer from gender-based violence! https://www.gofundme.com/f/mshmemphisNäytä tämä ketju -
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@MySistahHouse provide homeownership to Black and Brown Trans Women! Their goal is $200k -- let's help them get there, and then some more! https://www.gofundme.com/f/mshmemphisNäytä tämä ketju -
DAY 22 Action 2
#TowardAbolition Share widely@interruptcrim's#DefundPolice Toolkit: http://interruptingcriminalization.com Explore the toolkit for an abolitionist articulation of the demand to#DefundPolice, a how-to guide for those wanting to organize#DefundPolice, challenges & more.pic.twitter.com/Sv4eXiBB3q
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The
#DefundPolice toolkit also tracked several#DefundPolice demands and strategies currently being deployed across the continent as a resource: check for efforts happening near you pg. 21-23! http://interruptingcriminalization.com pic.twitter.com/K9YsZxUozC
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DAY 23 Action 1
#TowardAbolition Thurs is#FreeOurElders day! Our loved ones are in danger inside CA prisons where gross neglect & mismanagement has been the state's response to the COVID outbreak. More than ever we need@GavinNewsom to grant#ClemencyNow for#NoMoreDeaths.pic.twitter.com/Ih5oELZh9j
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Use the
#NoMoreDeaths toolkit to tell@GavinNewsom to release Patricia Wright, Maria Adredondo & Lucia Bravo — elders who are at extremely high risk of death and fighting for their lives in CA prisons.#ClemencyNow would give them a chance at survival! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1meQPfI1frsZXjRMLtbDOUSOu74LKiakopH5faRxqE1k/edit …pic.twitter.com/AgJ8MZDc5W
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DAY 23 Action 2
#TowardAbolition Use the#LeadWithMercy toolkit & demand@GavinNewsom address the racial violence of prisons + the COVID disaster via@CAgovernor's power of clemency. He can model justice w/ mass&immediate liberation of ppl in CA prisons: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z19moDZmL4e_4B8Vy-mVWs1DoXo--PY8-RhVEmwEaBc/edit …pic.twitter.com/T5SFfAfrr7
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In the midst of the largest public health crisis of our lives, we call on
@GavinNewsom to#LeadWithMercy &do everything he can to leverage every single avenue for mass release + decarceration including but not limited to clemency. Only mass release can save 114k+ ppl behind bars.Näytä tämä ketju -
DAY 24 Action 1
#TowardAbolition Read & discuss the "Letter to the Anti-Rape Movement" zine by@prisonculture to introduce the 1977 open letter by Santa Cruz Women Against Rape, opposing reliance on the state + criminal legal system to address GBV. http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/2020/04/19/new-zine-letter-to-the-anti-rape-movement/ …Näytä tämä ketju -
Anti-carceral feminists that came before us contested state-reliant approaches to domestic & sexual violence and opposed expansion of the state's carceral power in the name of gender justice. What can we learn from this history of anti-rape organizing? http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/2020/04/19/new-zine-letter-to-the-anti-rape-movement/ …
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DAY 24 Action 2
#TowardAbolition Now see our Defense Campaign Toolkit, "#SurvivedandPunished: Survivor Defense as Abolitionist Praxis," a collection of tools, tips, lessons + resources on running grassroots freedom campaigns for criminalized survivors.https://survivedandpunished.org/defense-campaign-toolkit/ …Näytä tämä ketju -
We created this toolkit w/
@LoveProtectOrg to empower folks in initiating, growing & sustaining grassroots organizing campaigns to free criminalized survivors facing policing, PIC or immigration enforcement violence in their communities.https://survivedandpunished.org/defense-campaign-toolkit/ …Näytä tämä ketju -
It's also an effort to document+reflect on our mvmt work, esp bc our organizing has been led by Black women, WOC, immigrants + queer/trans people fighting erasure. We hope to preserve some of these histories, build solidarity & share hope as we continue our collective struggle.
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We will be taking a two-day break from
#TowardAbolition this weekend, to resume on Monday, June 29. Rest well & see you soon!Näytä tämä ketju -
DAY 25 Action 1
#TowardAbolition Madonna Watson passed away due to breast cancer and COVID19 on June 9 at CA Institute for Women (CIW). We know prison & policing violence also contributed to her untimely passing. Please boost/donate to help her family:https://www.gofundme.com/f/madonna-watsons-funeral-exspenses …Näytä tämä ketju -
According to
@CACorrections as of Apr this yr during a pandemic, CIW is incarcerating ppl @ 111.1% of the capacity it was designed for. Madonna's death was preventable. Please support her son Gregory raise funds for her funeral:https://www.gofundme.com/f/madonna-watsons-funeral-exspenses …Näytä tämä ketju -
DAY 25 Action 2
#TowardAbolition Prosecution is rooted in systems of violence includ. white supremacy, DV & sexual violence. We must take resources & power away from prosecution offices w/ the intent of shrinking them til they are abolished. Read more: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/abolitionist-principles …Näytä tämä ketju - Näytä vastaukset
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