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Criminalizing Survival: A Resource of Curricula and Activities
Survived and Punished is excited to announce the new resource, Criminalizing Survival, that builds on the “Criminalizing Domestic Violence” curriculum unit that we released a couple of weeks ago for use during October Domestic Violence Awareness Month...
How Can We Reconcile Prison Abolition With #MeToo?
Victoria Law @ Filter. Excerpt below: I’ve interviewed numerous adult survivors of domestic violence imprisoned for defending themselves. Again and again, they tell me that they turned to the police and legal system, both of which failed to protect them. Perhaps...
Building Accountable Communities: A Video Series
Accountability is a familiar buzz-word in contemporary social movements, but what does it mean? How do we work toward it? In this series of four short videos, anti-violence activists Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby ask and explore: What does it...
October Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2018
Don't miss the upcoming events this October in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Raise awareness about the criminalization of survivors! Check out the new S&P curriculum as an option for organizing a worshop in your community or campus. Please contact us...
Good News! Update on Tammy Garvin’s Case & Next Steps for Action
BACKGROUND: Tammy Garvin is an incarcerated survivor of domestic violence and sex trafficking who has been in prison for 27 years as a result of her trafficker/abuser’s lethal violence. Tammy was only 14 years old when she was trafficked, and by the time she was...
New S&P Curriculum Unit for Domestic Violence Awareness Month
This curriculum unit is intended to help activists, advocates, organizers and community members to learn more about the criminalization of domestic violence survivors. We hope that you will use it during this October’s domestic violence awareness month and beyond to...
How Organizers Made Survivors’ Incarceration an Issue in the Cuomo/Nixon Race
Kelly Hayes interviews S&P member, Mariame Kaba, about the S&P commutation campaign in New York.Truthout. Excerpt below: Hayes: Cynthia Nixon’s promise to commute the sentences of criminalized survivors, if she is elected, was a surprise to many. What do you...
Prosecutor Pursues Murder Charge for Woman Who Defended Herself From Abuser
William C. Anderson from The Appeal. Excerpt below: Jacqueline Dixon’s murder charge came despite the fact that she had requested an order of protection against her husband in 2016 for punching her in the face and verbally abusing her multiple times, and Dixon’s...
S&P Member, Ny Nourn, Gives TED Talk
S&P California member, Ny Nourn, recently gave this TED talk describing her experiences with immigration to the U.S. as a Cambodian refugee, surviving domestic violence, being convicted for the actions of her batterer and sentenced to life without the...
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