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Welcome to the S&P 30 Days Challenge #TowardAbolition! Take 2 actions every day until July 4 in solidarity with communities everywhere resisting fascism, state violence, gender-based violence and racial capitalism! Use #TowardAbolition to let us know you're participating.
DAY 1 Action 1 #TowardAbolition

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
Like many, Alisha Walker is being punished, criminalized for surviving. There are countless others just like her.

Use: bit.ly/AlishaAdvocate for numbers, sample tweets, scripts & call/email/fax/bombard @GovPritzker to demand he #FreeLeLe #FreeThemAll!

#TowardAbolition
DAY 1 Action 2 #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
It's been brought to our attention that there are...33 not 30 days from today to July 4. LOLOLOL! We apologize -- but that just means we're gonna give you 3 bonus days for the 30(+3) Day Challenge #TowardAbolition 🤪🤣😂
DAY 2 Action 1 #TowardAbolition

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!
Please see this linked post for more info and follow @FreeThemAll2020 for updates.-- #TowardAbolition

DAY 2 Action 2 #TowardAbolition

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.
Involuntary sterilization in prisons is gender violence enacted by the state!

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…
DAY 3 Action 1 #TowardAbolition

@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…
Bonus action #TowardFreedom: Contact @GavinNewsom @CAgovernor to demand they grant clemency petitions to #FreePatricia #FreeLucia and #FreeMariaNow!

Message portal: govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/
--> For "subject" choose "clemency - commutation." Here is a sample:
We want to encourage folks to make a sustained effort to support grassroots freedom campaigns. We need ppl taking consistent steps every single day! Do what you can & come back for more. Brick by brick, our collective power can build new pathways to freedom. #TowardAbolition
DAY 3 Action 2 #TowardAbolition

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…
Tomiekia is quoted in this @GuardianUS story abt the women who survived abuse, war and cancer, and who are now held in CA prisons w/ rising Covid outbreaks. Share widely - and tell us if you may have learned something new from this story. #TowardAbolition

theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…
DAY 4 Action 1 #TowardAbolition

#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
“We’re not trying to compete w/ Floyd’s story, we’re trying to complete the story" says @dreanyc123 in this #JusticeforBreonna article. Check out @InvisibleNMBook to learn abt decades of organizing around police violence against Black women & trans people. nytimes.com/2020/06/04/us/…
DAY 4 Action 2 #TowardAbolition

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
Check out @RepealWWT toolkit for clear action steps targeting NYS senators and assembly members, Senate Majority Leader @AndreaSCousins, Assembly Speaker @CarlHeastie. Scripts & graphics included.

If you're out of state, pressure them from where you are!

docs.google.com/document/d/15d…
DAY 5 Action 1 #TowardAbolition

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
You can get updates from the campaign here: Facebook.com/Justice4Tracy/

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:
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! bit.ly/tracyfund #TowardAbolition
DAY 5 Action 2 #TowardAbolition

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…
"Grassroots fundraising is an opportunity for us to work together to subvert racial capitalism by pooling our collective resources, working towards radically redistributing them, and transforming ourselves in the process."

Help boost their current fund: spny.wedid.it
Queer & trans ppl are disproportionately incarcerated - precisely bc prisons exist to uphold/reinforce a heterosexist gender regime. For #Pride we lift up the demands of 2 incarcerated Black trans survivors for Day 6 of #TowardAbolition. #BlackTransLivesMatter #ProtectTransLives
DAY 6 Action 1 #TowardAbolition

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…
DAY 6 Action 2

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…
Brandy & Rae are survivors of sexual violence, targeted for policing + incarceration by the state bc of their Black and trans identities. Let's work to end the extreme and disproportionate sentencing of Black trans people and affirm #BlackTransLivesMatter.

#TowardAbolition
Following #TowardAbolition? Have you noticed @GavinNewsom is ignoring an AWFUL lot of clemency petitions? Predecessor @JerryBrownGov increased clemency significantly - Newsom granted only 27 pardons, 44 commutations out of 123K ppl in CA prisons, ~0.0006%. Absolutely disgraceful.
Your crucial support helped secure commutations for S&P CA incarcerated members, Tammy Garvin, Barbara Chavez, Kelly Ann Savage, Christina Martinez & Gabriela Solano. Your support was key in bringing these survivors closer to release.

Let's keep it going #TowardAbolition
DAY 7 Action 1

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…
DAY 7 Action 2

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…
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.
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 prisons
Read @supporthosechi bit.ly/AlishaAdvocate toolkit for scripts. You may also find S&P's analysis helpful in writing: survivedandpunished.org/analysis/

Lift up the demand to free ALL imprisoned sex workers as we demand #FreeThemAll - ending gender violence requires sex worker liberation.
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 + abolition gf.me/u/x4pu3a
#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: freechrystul.wordpress.com
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.
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: freechrystul.wordpress.com/contact-the-da/
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: freechrystul.wordpress.com/write-to-chrys…
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: bcrw.barnard.edu/fellows/cece-m…

Art: @micahbazant
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.

survivedandpunished.org/educational-vi…
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.

bcrw.barnard.edu/i-use-my-love-…
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.
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: bit.ly/PardonShefa
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: chng.it/p256d85MYq
"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." #ReproJustice

chng.it/p256d85MYq
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: sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…
Now call & email!

* @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?
We're taking today to rest & catch up on other tasks -- be back tomorrow with two actions #TowardAbolition! 😇
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: swopbehindbars.giv.sh/b9d2
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!

swopbehindbars.giv.sh/b9d2
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? fnd.us/FreeChrystulKi…
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.
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.
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)
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?
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.
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 gofundme.com/f/w-ma-street-…
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!

gofundme.com/f/w-ma-street-…
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.
#FreeLeLe & @supporthosechi are echoing demands from freethepeoplecoalition.org to #FreeThePeople, #FreeThePhones & #FreeTheSoap to protect incarcerated people in IL during this public health crisis.

Toolkit to demand @GovPritzker #FreeThemAll & #FreeLeLe: bit.ly/AlishaAdvocate
Donate&boost the #FreeLeLe fund! Abolitionists will cont. to agitate 4 demands like #Decrim of sex work + #DecriminalizingSurvival. In the meanwhile, let's do our best to help meet material needs of LeLe, directly impacted by anti-Black, anti-SW violence: gofundme.com/f/support-alis…
DAY 14 Action 2 #TowardAbolition

@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!

Bookmarks for @liberationlib must be paper & drawings only; glitter, glue, & stickers are prohibited.

Mailing address:

Liberation Library
@ In These Times
2040 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
Please donate to @liberationlib -- members are doubling their efforts during COVID19 as young people in the jails&prisons they serve are experiencing a loss of programming+ in-person visits, leading to further isolation during these uncertain times.

liberationlib.com/donate.html
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