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CCWP’s 20th Anniversary Celebration – Saturday Nov. 7th!
As part of CCWP’s 20th Anniversary celebrations, we are counting down some of the ways that we have spoken truth to power over the years. Thank you to all who have helped create a movement through these actions. We invite you all to celebrate with us on November 7th at the Women’s Building in San Francisco. Go to Brown Paper Tickets to get your tickets now! http://www.brownpapertickets.
| Black Women in SF account for nearly 50% of the city’s arrests of women! |
| Dear Supporter,
On June 18, Supervisor Jane Kim will hold a public hearing on Alternatives to a Jail Rebuild. This is another opportunity for the community to express what is crystal clear: San Francisco needs to invest in affordable housing, residential treatment programs, outpatient mental health services, health care for all, quality schools, parks and recreation program, not more cages. Take action to stop the criminalization and imprisonment of Black and Brown communities and poor people. A recent report by the Center of Juvenile and Criminal Justice revealed that Black women in SF account for nearly 50% of the city’s arrests of women while they are only 6% of the women’s population in jail. This shocking statistic confirms the racism that we see operating on a daily basis in our work with women and transgender prisoners at SF County Jail. At the same time, we know that 84% of people in SF jail are pre-trial which means they haven’t been sentenced of a crime but simply can’t afford bail. Bail reform would eliminate the perceived need for a new jail. Join us as we demonstrate that alternatives to jails and policing are what we need. It is scandalous that some Supervisors are proposing to significantly expand the SF police force. Wasting hundreds of millions of dollars into rebuilding a jail will only increase the violence of policing and imprisonment. This past week, the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors suspended their jail construction plans to adequately assess community alternatives. San Francisco needs to follow their example now. In solidarity,
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Hafsah Al-Amin
Join CCWP for two benefit performances of Mariposa & the Saint and a conversation about the shocking conditions in California’s women’s prisons and what can be done to change them.
Thursday, May 7th at Stagewerx, 446 Valencia St. at 16th, San Francisco
$15 advance thru Brown Paper Tickets, $20 at the door, no one turned away for lack of funds
Doors open at 7:00, Play begins promptly at 7:30
Sunday, May 10th at La Peña, 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley
$15 advance thru Eventbrite, $20 at the door, no one turned away for lack of funds
Doors open at 7:00, Play begins promptly at 7:30
In 2012, Mariposa was sentenced to fifteen months in solitary confinement. In 2015 she is still in a special confinement unit. Through letters with longtime friend Julia Steele Allen who met her through a CCWP prison visiting team, Mariposa brings her experience to the stage.
Written by Sara (Mariposa) Fonseca & Julia Steele Allen
Directed by Noelle Ghoussaini
A Benefit for the California Coalition for Women Prisoners, www.womenprisoners.org
For more information contact CCWP info@womenprisoners.org, 415-255-7036 x 4