Drop LWOP Rally & Speak Out (Aug 6, Sacramento)

California State Capitol (North steps) California State Capitol North Steps, Sacramento, CA, United States

Organized by California Coalition of Women Prisoners, Coalition United for Responsible Budget The majority of people serving Life Without Parole (LWOP) in the women’s prisons are survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Join the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) and CURB as we visit the capitol to rally to #DropLWOP and present Governor Brown […]

#FreeThemAll Twitter Power Hour: Demand the immediate freedom of all criminalized survivors! (Aug 6)

Twitter

To kick off the #FreeThemAll National Week of Action, Survived and Punished will lead a twitter power. Together, we’ll highlight how survivors of domestic violence and sexual assualt are criminalized by police, courts, jails, prisons, and deportations. Learn how you can disrupt the abuse to prison (to deportation) pipeline and show up for criminalized survivors. […]

Courtrooms as Sites of Resistance (Aug 8)

Twitter

  Join Survived & Punished for Day 3 of our #FreeThemAll Week of Action: Courtrooms as Sites of Resistance: A Twitter Chat Wednesday, Aug 8, 2018 3pm PT/5pm CT/6pm ET @survivepunish Courtrooms are a key site of violence in the "abuse to prison pipeline". Judges, attorneys, and media covering trials systematically displace survivors' narratives of […]

Post-Conviction Relief 101 & Legal Update on the #FreeTewkunzi Campaign (Aug 9)

Conference Call Call-in number: +1 515-604-9947, Passcode: 474933

4pm Central (2pm PT / 5pm ET) During this one-hour conference call, attorney Rachel White-Domain will provide a very brief 101-level overview of post-conviction relief options for incarcerated survivors. This call will also provide a legal update on Tewkunzi Green's case. Ms. Green is a survivor who is currently serving 34 years and who is […]

Abolish ICE Teach-in: Free All Criminalized Survivors (Aug 9, San Francisco)

Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus 55 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA, United States

Join Survived & Punished for a teach-in about surviving violence, ICE and the experiences of criminalized immigrant survivors! We will be sharing what we know about: - Demystifying ICE, systems of criminalization/policing and deportation - How gender and gender violence impact people's experiences of being targeted by ICE - What's changed & what hasn't for […]

Sharing Stories of Self-Defense and Survival in the #MeToo Era (Aug 9, NYC)

Asian American Writers Workshop 110-112 West 27th Street, Suite 600, New York, NY, United States

As the #MeToo Movement brought gender violence to the forefront of the national conversation, New York State has continued to criminalize and incarcerate survivors of gender violence at an alarming rate. The Survived and Punished #FreeThemNY Campaign is demanding that Governor Cuomo commute the sentences of survivors of gender violence who are in prison throughout […]

Black and Pink Chicago’s Letter Writing to Incarcerated Women in Illinois (Aug 9, Chicago)

Chicago, email Jason Lydon at jasonmlydon@gmail.com for address

Date: Thursday, 8/9 Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Location: Chicago, email Jason Lydon at jasonmlydon@gmail.com for address Join Black and Pink Chicago as we write letters to our inside members who identify as women and to incarcerated survivors with whom Love & Protect corresponds. We will lift up the #FreeThemAll week of action and share loving and healing words to honor […]

Oct 3, Irvine: Life or Death, Freedom or Prison: The Criminalization of Domestic Violence Survivors

UC Irvine Student Center, Pacific Ballroom C UCI Student Center & Event Services, Irvine, CA, United States

UC Irvine Initiative to End Family Violence Survivor Speaker Keynote Life or Death, Freedom or Prison: The Criminalization of Domestic Violence Survivors Marissa Alexander With introductory remarks by UCI Law Dean L. Song Richardson Wednesday, October 3, 2018 4:00–5:30 p.m. Followed by a light reception UCI Student Center, Pacific Ballroom C This event is free and open to […]