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Now Available: Toolkit to Organize Letterwriting Events
Download S&P Toolkit to Organize Letterwriting Events! Writing letters is a critical tool to overcome the isolation and erasure of people who are incarcerated. Gathering in a group to write can be a way to take collective action, to show solidarity, and to support...
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Tondalao Hall Is Free!
We are thrilled to share that Tondalao Hall is free after being released from Mabel Basset Correctional Facility yesterday afternoon! Last month, the Oklahoma Pardon & Parole Board unanimously voted in favor of a commutation of Tondalao's 30 year sentence, a decision...
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Videos from S&P 2019 National Convening
The 2019 Survived and Punished National Convening featured a day of panels, strategy sessions, and community building — all with a focus on launching defense campaigns and organizing to free criminalized survivors of racialized gender-based violence. Below are...
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#DVAM 2019 Events
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Join Survived & Punished members at the following #DVAM events and uplift criminalized survivors of violence. Oct 2, NYC: What We Mean When We Say Free Them All: Lessons from the Social Justice Initiative October 2 @ 6:30...
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Survived and Punished at the 2019 #DropLWOP Strategy Session
Survived and Punished members participated at the 2019 #DROPLWOP Strategy Session, organized by California Coalition of Women Prisoners, Families United to End LWOP, Californians United for a Responsible Budget, and Felony Murder Elimination Project. In the two-day...
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Oct 14, Oakland: #FreeThemCA Panel of Criminalized Survivors & Letter Writing
Monday, October 14 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm East Side Arts Alliance, 2277 International Blvd. Oakland, CA 94606 Facebook event It’s a historic time for commutations in California: By the end of his term, 283 people were commuted by former Governor Jerry Brown. This is...
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Oct 9th: Tondalao Hall Commutation Hearing
ALERT from Candace Liger of Project Blackbird and the Free Tondalao Hall Campaign: October is domestic violence awareness month. It's not that we do not know that domestic violence exists, but rather we are reminded of the impact it has on survivors, children, and...
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Oct 26, NYC: Introduction to Disability Justice
Organized by Survived & Punished NY, this workshop will explore the past and present nexus between racism, classism, ableism, and structural inequity, focusing in particular on multiply-marginalized people. We will work to expand our collective understanding of...
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I Killed My Partner. It Saved My Life.
Powerful reflection by Arlene Adams and a beautiful photo essay by Clara Vannucci @ The New York Times. Arlene Adams draws the connections between the trauma caused by domestic violence and incarceration, the pattern of prosecuting survivors of domestic violence when...
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