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No New Prisons - Reimagining Communities Through Collective Organizing 03/26/2024

From the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series:

In the US there are approximately 250,000 women in jails or prisons on any given day. Join us for a special panel discussion of what it would look like to shift investment away from incarceration and into true public safety, transformation, and healing.

Speakers include Andrea James, Sashi James, Mallory Hanora, and Jayna Ahsaf.  

For more information visit: https://www.willmiller.org/

Service Rendered: Straight Talk Vermont - Becca Balint 09/06/2023

Host Bruce Wilson, Executive Director of Service Rendered, is joined by Congresswoman Becca Balint. 

VICII: Abolishing Incarceration of Women and Girls! 11/30/2022

From VICII:

The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls has launched their New England-wide FreeHer campaign to end incarceration for people in women’s prisons throughout the nation. The FreeHer VT campaign is advocating to shut down Chittenden County Regional Facility and stop the state’s proposal to build a 250 million dollar prison project. The prison industrial complex has perpetuated a punitive culture where we have been taught to address acts of harm with more harm. The FreeHer VT campaign hopes to spread awareness and strategize with Vermonters about how we can end incarceration, build up people instead of prisons, and re-imagine how we can make our communities thrive.

With guests:

  • Kahlia Livingston, FreeHer VT Campaign Organizer
  • Jayna Ahsaf, FreeHer VT Campaign Organizer
  • Virginia Douglas, Co-Founder & Basic Income Coordinator at The National Council
  • Sashi James, Director of Reimagining Communities at The National Council

For more information: vicii.org

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