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Freedom for Margaret Moore! The following is a message from the Post Conviction Law Project asking the community to support Margaret Moore. Please send your letters of support for this incarcerated survivor of domestic violence! ******* My name is Erin McCann and I work for USC Law School's Post Conviction Justice Project. I am writing to you today on behalf of Margaret Moore, a battered and abused woman who has spent nearly thirty years in prison for killing her abusive husband. Margaret Moore is 50 year-old, non-violent survivor of domestic violence. As a child and adolescent, her father subjected her to countless instances of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. Years later, after marrying the victim and distancing herself from her father, Margaret once again suffered severe abuse, this time at the hands of her husband. A May 2002 California Board of Prison Terms’ Investigation concluded that Margaret’s “horrific upbringing undoubtedly contributed” to her crime, and “years of incestuous physical and emotional abuse…ended her ability to, otherwise, logically seek an escape from her miserable existence in her marriage to the victim.” Click here to learn more | ||
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Save the Date! November 21 Benefit for CCWP Saturday, November 21, 2009 "Country” Joe McDonald performs: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie a benefit for the California Coalition for Women Prisoners "Country" Joe McDonald will perform his critically acclaimed one man, spoken-word theatrical performance in tribute to Woody Guthrie with 13 songs by the American folk music hero. "In his highly entertaining Tribute to Woody Guthrie, Country Joe brings to life Woody Guthrie, his father Mac McDonald, and Joe’s own connections to Woody and the politics and music of our country’s deep and soulful tradition of class division and struggle." Review by Skip Demuth, of a March 8, 2007 performance in Langley (Whidbey Island) Washington. When: Saturday November 21, Doors Open at 7pm, Performance at 7:30 Where: Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists 1924 Cedar Street (at Bonita Avenue), Berkeley Cost: General Tickets $25 at the door (No one turned away for lack of funds) Pre-sale tickets online through Brown Paper Tickets  A limited number of front row tickets are available for $100, including two Woody Guthrie CDs and a poster signed by Country Joe McDonald. Please contact for further details. For more information, please contact Cynthia at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists at 510-841-4824 (open 11-5 M-F), or at office@bfuu.org  From an April 2009 performance of Country Joe's Tribute to Woody Guthrie at the Nevada Theatre in Nevada City. Sponsored by the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee | ||
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Charisse Shumate: Fighting for Our Lives film available online This 37-minute video was created in collaboration with the Freedom Archives and focuses on the life of Charisse Shumate and women in California State prisons. It includes amazing prison interviews as well as materials from State Senate hearings on conditions for women in the California State Prison System and historical video footage of Charisse and her family. You can watch the film in streaming video by clicking here. For more information on the film, click here. | ||
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2 More Lifer Parole Townhall Events: 7/18 Los Angeles and 8/08 Fresno In May, two amazing townhall events were held in San Francisco and Los Angeles to bring together the loved ones of Term-to-Life prisoners and their allies to work towards changing the system that has kept so many of our people locked up for so long. An article describing the Los Angeles townhall can be found here: "Prisoners' Rights: An Oxymoron?" To continue moving forward, two more townhall events are being held on July 18th in Watts and August 8th in Fresno. Please contact CCWP or the contacts listed on the flyer below for more information.   | ||
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Lifers and Lifer Families and Friends: Parole Preparation Events Please join us at these important townhall events, co-organized by CCWP:  | ||
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