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California Approves $7.5 Million to Provide Reparations to Survivors of State Sponsored Forced Sterilizations
A Message from our partner, the California Coalition for Women Prisoners: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 13, 2021 CONTACT: California Coalition for Women Prisoners - info@womenprisoners.org Aminah Elster – aminah@womenprisoners.org; 415-255-7036 x 314 Hafsah...
S&P NY Zine: No Good Prosecutors
Survived & Punished NY announces a new zine: No Good Prosecutors Now or Ever: How the Manhattan District Attorney Hoards Money, Perpetuates Abuse of Survivors and Gags Their Advocates This zine outlines S&P NY’s analysis around prosecutors and how they...
Community Support Fund Launched for Christina Martinez
Thank you to everyone who signed the petition to grant clemency to domestic violence survivor, Christina Martinez. Your overwhelming support helped Christina secure clemency and she was recently paroled and released from prison! She has reunited with her loving family...
Gabriela Solano Re-Incarcerated by ICE, Support her Survival Fund
Update from the #FreeGabby team: Thank you to all who supported the call for Gabriela Solano’s commutation. Your support was key in helping Gabby secure a commutation, which allowed her release from prison. However, we are enraged and heartbroken to report that...
To Confront Sexual Violence, We Don’t Need Better Prosecutors — We Need to Abolish Them
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...
Beyond #StopAsianHate: Criminalization, Gender, & Asian Abolition Feminism
Don't miss this powerful discussion by abolitionist feminists about how white supremacy and criminalization shape the experiences of gendered racial violence for Asian people. This event was organized by Haymarket Books and features Survived & Punished members and...
Ny Nourn: the woman convicted of murder and pardoned – who now fights for other battered women
The Guardian article, "Ny Nourn: the woman convicted of murder and pardoned – who now fights for other battered women," features the experiences and political vision of Ny Nourn, an S&P member, policy expert, community organizer, and formerly incarcerated...
June 3: Join the #FreeGabby campaign for letter-writing, fundraising, & updates
Join the #FreeGabby campaign on THURSDAY 6/3 at 5 PM PT for a fundraiser and letter writing event to support Gabby Solano, a DV survivor who was criminalized for defending herself. We will hear updates from the #FreeGabby campaign and write to support Gabby! Register...
Action Items: #FreeArlene, #FreeAshley, #FreeAssia
Don't miss these upcoming opportunities to free survivors! Save the date for Thur, May 20th for the #FreeArlene and #FreeAllSurvivors Day of action organized by Survived & Punished CA: TOOLKIT Arlene Dugmore is a long-term survivor of severe domestic...