Dec
2
Wed
CCWP Bay Area Monthly Meetings
Dec 2 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Join us via Zoom on the first Wednesday of every month to hear Bay Area campaign updates & get plugged into the work!

Dec
10
Thu
SB 132 Information Session
Dec 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

CCWP will be holding an educational and discussion about SB 132, the Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act which requires CDCr to house TGNC incarcerated people according to their own sense of where they will be safest. This session will help outside advocates understand the purpose and factual details about the bill in order to proactively support TGNC people who may transfer after January 1, 2021 when the bill goes into effect. Contact us for zoom info.

Dec
15
Tue
Racial Justice Act Training
Dec 15 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Join us for a community training on the Racial Justice Act (AB 2542) and how we can use this new law to fight racism in the court system. Register online at bit.ly/RJA4theppl – registration is limited so you can also tune in via live stream on CURB’s Facebook.

Dec
21
Mon
#DROPLWOP Statewide Conference Calls
Dec 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Get involved in the statewide campaign to end Life Without Parole sentencing!
This coalition includes CCWP, Felony Murder Elimination Project, Families United to End LWOP, CURB, Silicon Valley Debug, Initiate Justice & many more.

 

Jan
6
Wed
CCWP Bay Area Monthly Meetings
Jan 6 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Join us via Zoom on the first Wednesday of every month to hear Bay Area campaign updates & get plugged into the work!

Feb
3
Wed
#Pardons4thePeople Panel Event @ APSP Facebook Live
Feb 3 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Wednesday, February 3rd from 10 am to 11:30 am (PST), the Asian Prisoner Support Committee (ASPC), SEARAC, Youth Justice Coalition, and Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus, will co-host the #Pardons4thePeople panel event on APSC’s Facebook page.

This panel will feature formerly incarcerated immigrants and refugees community leaders Phal Sok, Billy Taing, Danny Thongsy, Maria Luna, Charles Joseph, Ny Nourn, and special guest Bounchan Keola, CDCR firefighter recently released from ICE detention after serving over 22 years in prison.

The panel discussion will highlight:

  • The impacts of pardons
  • How pardons can disrupt the school-to prison-to deportation pipeline
  • Challenges and successes they face re-entering into society
  • And learn about how communities can come together to support people at-risk for deportation

At the end of the panel discussion, we will launch the #Pardons4thePeople Digital Toolkit, which will be available tomorrow morning. The toolkit will highlight immigrant and refugee community members Maria Luna, Bounchan Keola, Kao Saelee, An Nguyen, Justin Chung, Liyah Birru, Borey “PJ’ Ai, and Chares Joseph, who are all facing deportation. We invite you to help make calls, email, and tweet at Governor Newsom to grant pardons for them.

Please share this invitation widely with your networks and if you’re not able to view the discussion, it will be recorded and you’ll have access to view it. However, we encourage you  tomorrow between 11:30 am to 4:00 pm (PST),  to participate and help amplify the #Pardons4thePeople social media action at bit.ly/pardons4theppl

Gender, Race, and Age Behind Bars: Impacts of Long-Term Sentencing @ Zoom
Feb 3 @ 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm

UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN PRESENTS

GENDER, RACE, AND AGE BEHIND BARS: IMPACTS OF LONG-TERM SENTENCING

CO-HOSTED BY THE UCLA CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROGRAM AND THE LA COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER’S OFFICE

DATE: Wednesday, February 3, 2021
TIME: 12:15 PM-1:30 PM
LOCATION: Zoom Webinar (RSVP)

This event is free and open to the public with registration.

 Join us for a rare opportunity to hear from two formerly-incarcerated women activists on the compounded adverse impacts of long-term sentencing on the elderly, women, transgender people, and people of color in prison and beyond. Jane Dorotik was incarcerated for almost 20 years on a wrongful conviction. She was released in April 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns, and her conviction was reversed in July 2020. Romarilyn Ralston was incarcerated for 23 years, and is now the Program Director of Project Rebound at the California State University-Fullerton. Both are organizers with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP)Dorotik and Ralston will be in dialogue with LA County Public Defender Ricardo Garcia, and moderator Alicia Virani, the Gilbert Foundation Director of the Criminal Justice Program at the UCLA School of Law. This event is hosted by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, and co-hosted by the Criminal Justice Program at the UCLA School of Law and the LA County Public Defender’s Office.

Read CSW’s 2020 Policy Briefs, “Confronting the Carceral State, Reimagining Justice,” featuring briefs written by Jane Dorotik and Romarilyn Ralston.

CCWP Bay Area Monthly Meetings
Feb 3 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Join us via Zoom on the first Wednesday of every month to hear Bay Area campaign updates & get plugged into the work!

Mar
3
Wed
CCWP Bay Area Monthly Meetings
Mar 3 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Join us via Zoom on the first Wednesday of every month to hear Bay Area campaign updates & get plugged into the work!

Mar
21
Sun
Art Against Imprisonment Launch
Mar 21 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Art Against Imprisonment

Join us Sunday, March 21 at 10 am PST for Art Against Imprisonment, a virtual art exhibit that features art from incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people in Palestine and in the US.

Join us will be former political prisoners: Hafez Omar, Linda Evans, and Oscar Lopez Rivera; Anmar Rafeedie, cultural worker and long time member of El-Fanoun Palestinian Dance Troupe; and a message from Kevin Cooper currently on California’s death row. We will also be joined by musical artist Naima Shaloub. More to come.

Register for zoom link here: tinyurl.com/artagainstprisons

RSVP & share on Facebook

Organized by: The Palestinian Youth Movement, Addameer, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Freedom Archives, The Arab Resource and Organizing Center, and US Palestinian Community Network.