Survived + Punished

Alvin Bragg’s unjust prosecution: Tracy McCarter should be freed

Mar 14, 2022 | Case & Campaign Updates, Media | 0 comments

Alvin Bragg’s unjust prosecution: Tracy McCarter should be freed by Dr. Uché Blackstock, New York Daily News; excerpt below: It has been two years since Tracy McCarter, a Black mother and nurse living and working in New York, was arrested after surviving a domestic...

Do Police Help or Hurt Domestic Violence Survivors? New City Council Members Take a Stand

Mar 13, 2022 | Media, Research & Strategy | 0 comments

Media update: Do Police Help or Hurt Domestic Violence Survivors? New City Council Members Take a Stand, by Jessica Washington, The City Excerpt below: Divisions among domestic violence advocates in New York City about what role, if any, police should have in...

Why Policing and Prisons Can’t End Gender Violence

Mar 2, 2022 | Media | 0 comments

Why Policing and Prisons Can’t End Gender Violence The authors of the new book, Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together, by Angela Y. Davis,  Gina Dent,  Erica R. Meiners,  Beth E. Richie,...

GMA Feature on the Call to Free Nikki Addimondo

Jan 19, 2022 | Case & Campaign Updates, Media | 0 comments

Good Morning America published a brief video feature about the case of Nikki Addimando who was prosecuted for killing her abusive partner in self-defense in 2017:...

A Response to Hate Crime Charges from Red Canary Song + Survived & Punished

Nov 23, 2021 | Media | 0 comments

Red Canary Song + Survived & Punished Response to Hate Crime Charges (original statement here)  Chinese: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1avUjD4tuXGbGT8V1w6MxwtBQQOhaDsUBpgYPicMFlbs/edit?usp=sharing...

To Confront Sexual Violence, We Don’t Need Better Prosecutors — We Need to Abolish Them

Jun 17, 2021 | Media | 0 comments

Taylor Blackston, a Black queer abolitionist organizer and survivor of sexual violence, and Sojourner Rivers,  a sexual violence survivor, member of Survived & Punished NY and a member of the #StandWithTracy defense team, wrote a powerful op/ed about the abolition...