Support @supporthosechi #FreeLeLe campaign! In honor of #PRIDE and #IWD2020, let’s get #AlishaWalker free. "LeLe" is a Black sex worker who was criminalized for self-defense against sexual violence.
Toolkit w/ directions: bit.ly/AlishaAdvocate
Use: bit.ly/AlishaAdvocate for numbers, sample tweets, scripts & call/email/fax/bombard @GovPritzker to demand he #FreeLeLe #FreeThemAll!
#TowardAbolition
Help us gain freedom for 3 @c_c_w_p members who are extremely medically-vulnerable by signing 3 petitions: carenotcages.com
#CareNotCages #FreePatricia #FreeLucia #FreeMariaNow #FreeOurElders #BringThemHome #FreeOurElders #ClemencyNow
Help @FreeThemAll2020 locate a pregnant woman who was beaten, cuffed, & locked up by NYPD. They've received conflicting reports & want to make sure she is safe + offer her some support. We need clear&truthful answers from @NYCCouncil @NYCMayor!
Help @c_c_w_p pass #AB3052! #PrisonAbolition + #ReproductiveJustice mvmts must demand reparations for incarcerated survivors of forced sterilization. From 2006-2010, roughly144+ ppl in CA women’s prisons suffered involuntary sterilizations.
Access @c_c_w_p's toolkit to access graphics, sample scripts, and a template of a letter you can send Chair of Public Safety Committee @JonesSawyerAD59.
#TowardAbolition
docs.google.com/document/d/1KE…
@c_c_w_p is asking we take action to #FreeOurElders EVERY THURS til we #BringThemHome w/ #ClemencyNow. We asked you to sign their petitions on Day 1.
Make your weekly social media post & tag @GavinNewsom.
Toolkit here: docs.google.com/document/d/1me…
Message portal: govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/
--> For "subject" choose "clemency - commutation." Here is a sample:
Tomiekia Johnson is a Black mother & incarcerated DV survivor who was #survivedandpunished for self-defense. Sign&share the petition to urge @GavinNewsom to grant #ClemencyNow so she may heal at home with her loved ones.
change.org/p/gavin-newsom…
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…
#BreonnaTaylor was born June 5, 1993. She would have turned 27 today.
Sign the petition demanding the officers that murdered her be fired: act.colorofchange.org/sign/justicefo…
Share&boost the fundraiser: gofundme.com/f/9v4q2-justic…
#BreonnaTaylor #SayHerName
Repeal the #WalkingWhileTrans ban, which allows police to arrest & detain women + GNC people based on what they're wearing + their appearance. A grim example of how the state enacts and facilitates gender violence. @AndreaSCousins @CarlHeastie
If you're out of state, pressure them from where you are!
docs.google.com/document/d/15d…
Tracy McCarter is a nurse and criminalized DV survivor being punished for self-defense. @ManhattanDA keeps her locked up in COVID-infested Rikers. Read her story & BOOST her fundraiser here: bit.ly/tracyfund
#StandWithTracy #FreeThemAll
In May @survivepunishNY hosted a Twitter chat to help amplify #StandWithTracy & Tracy's legal defense fund (bit.ly/tracyfund). You can read their informational thread here:
Read @survivepunishNY's new Mutual Aid Toolkit, based on their work supporting incarcerated survivors in NY. We believe in giving that is voluntary, reciprocal& not based on a deserving/not deserving paradigm.
survivedandpunishedny.org/mutual-aid/mut…
Help boost their current fund: spny.wedid.it
Brandy is a beloved longterm member of @tgijp, S&P CA+ @c_c_w_p, and an incarcerated survivor requesting #ClemencyNow from @GavinNewsom. Brandy is dedicated to fighting for trans, queer, and sex worker rights. Sign & share: change.org/p/california-g…
Rae is the 1st trans Chair of the Inmate Advisory Council (the prison’s elected, representative body of incarcerated ppl), a DV Program Facilitator & a mentor to incoming youth. @GavinNewsom grant Rae #ClemencyNow. Sign & share: change.org/p/california-g…
#TowardAbolition
Let's keep it going #TowardAbolition
Janetta Leiva is a Native American woman (Yokut & Yaqui Nations) and IPV survivor diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. CA incarcerates people w/ psychiatric disabilities indefinitely, leaving them caged without care until death.
Sign: change.org/p/edmund-g-bro…
Stacey Dyer is an incarcerated CSA and DV survivor, sentenced to LWOP at age 22. Stacey’s life reflects the consequences of our community’s failure to adequately support child and adult survivors of sexual and physical abuse.
Sign & share: change.org/p/california-g…
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.
Lift up the demand to free ALL imprisoned sex workers as we demand #FreeThemAll - ending gender violence requires sex worker liberation.
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 + abolition gf.me/u/x4pu3a
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: freechrystul.wordpress.com
We know that Chrystul is a survivor and that her actions saved her life! Let's help #FreeChrystul team.
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: freechrystul.wordpress.com/contact-the-da/
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: freechrystul.wordpress.com/write-to-chrys…
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: bcrw.barnard.edu/fellows/cece-m…
Art: @micahbazant
survivedandpunished.org/educational-vi…
bcrw.barnard.edu/i-use-my-love-…
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.
Action toolkit w/ scripts: bit.ly/PardonShefa
@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: chng.it/p256d85MYq
chng.it/p256d85MYq
@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: sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…
* @GavinNewsom ☎️916-445-2841
* Ralph Diaz, @CACorrections ☎️916-324-7308 x4
* You can submit comment to @CAgovernor: govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/
Visit bit.ly/CIWCovidAbuse for scripts/graphics. None of these demands have been met yet. What's up @GavinNewsom?
@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: swopbehindbars.giv.sh/b9d2
swopbehindbars.giv.sh/b9d2
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? fnd.us/FreeChrystulKi…
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.
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)
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?
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 gofundme.com/f/w-ma-street-…
Support WCIIA a grassroots sex worker formation provide stipends for their members!
gofundme.com/f/w-ma-street-…
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.
Toolkit to demand @GovPritzker #FreeThemAll & #FreeLeLe: bit.ly/AlishaAdvocate
@liberationlib is an abolitionist org providing books to incarcerated youth in Illinois prisons! They also send handmade bookmarks to their readers 🥺😭 -- and they're running low. Let's make some bookmarks!
Mailing address:
Liberation Library
@ In These Times
2040 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
liberationlib.com/donate.html