CALLS TO ACTION
Find a PenPal:
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"At the onset of COVID, Let’s Get Free began gathering weekly over zoom to write to our community on the inside to help lessen the burden of the increased restrictions and confinement that people in prison all of the country were and continue to be subjected to. Even as restrictions lessen we decided to continue holding the regular space to keep up with ongoing correspondence. We welcome first time penpals."
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https://letsgetfree.info/write-to-people/
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Pink and Black Penpal Program:
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Organizations to follow:
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Critical Resistance @criticalresistance
Initiate Justice @initiateustice
Justice LA @justicelanow
Californians United for a Responsible Budget @curbprisons
California Coalition for Women Prisoners @c_c_w_p
Community Coalition @cocosouthla
Dignity and Power Now @dignityandpowernow
Reform LA Jails @reformlajails
Black Lives Matter @blklivesmatter
Black Lives Matter Los Angeles Chapter @blmlosangeles
Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org
Movement for Black Lives @mvmnt4blklives
The MOVE Organization @themoveorganization
The Nap Ministry @thenapministry
Asians for Mental Health @asiansformentalhealth
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People to follow:
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Patrisse Cullors @osopepatrisse
Marc Lamont Hill @marclamonthill
Brittany Packnett @mspackyetti
Tiffany Loftin @tiffanydloftin
Tamika Mallory @tamikadmallory
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Mariame Kaba
Angela Davis
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Articles and Conversations:
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Justice in America Podcast: Mariame Kaba and Prison Abolition - Podcast
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Intercepted. - Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes The Case For Abolition - Podcast
Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police by Mariame Kaba - Article
America, This Is Your Chance by Michelle Alexander - Article
Abolition Journal Study Guide​
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Books to Read:
The End to Policing by Alex Vitale
Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, Second Edition by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
When they Call you a Terrorist by Patrisse Cullors
Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan
“Freedom is a Constant Struggle: from Ferguson to Palestine” by Angela Davis
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Mass Liberation Glossary
PLACES TO DONATE
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Prop 17 is a ballot measure that will restore voting rights to people who are on parole in the state of California. (That is about 50,000 people)
Donate to Measure J
Measure J will amend L.A County’s charter to permanently allocate at least 10% of existing locally - controlled revenues - growing close to $1B once fully phased in - to be directed to community investment and al
Donate to California Coalition of Women Prisoners:
womenprisoners.org/donate-now/
CCWP is a grassroots social justice organization, with members inside and outside prison, that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender people, and communities of color by the prison industrial complex (PIC). We see the struggle for racial and gender justice as central to dismantling the PIC and we prioritize the leadership of the people, families, and communities most impacted in building this movement
Donate to US, the collective of artists that curated this event! All donations will go to the creation of our next project.
Past work: www.jailbeddrop.com
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Support the Breathe Act
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