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Submit a photo in support of Justice For Angelo Quinto. Post your photo on social media & tag #JusticeForAngeloQuinto and email your photo to [email protected]. -- In Angelo’s name, we continue to hold up peaceful actions seeking justice, peace, and respect throughout the world. #JusticeForAngeloQuinto #JusticePeaceAndRespectForAll

Why Solitary Confinement is Modern Day Torture. As of 2013, there were 80,000 men and women in solitary confinement in the US, some of them as young as 14 years... old. In this video artist Molly Crabapple explains the psychological and physical trauma suffered by those forced to spend 22-24 hours a day alone. According to the United Nations, 15 days in solitary is torture. See more

Last week EJI partnered with Pinellas Remembers to unveil a historical marker memorializing John Evans in Pinellas County, Florida. Mr. Evans, a Black man, was killed in a public spectacle lynching attended by an estimated 1,500 white men, women, and children in 1914.

"If you don’t have time to read on, just remember this: 'Boudin is not bringing charges' is a lie, plain and simple."

Violent to Anti-Gang the Tookie Williams story

Repost Frankie Guzman: I had the privilege to be on Forum on KQED this morning to speak about the state's plans to close DJJ, including implementation challenges and concerns for the welfare of our youth communities. I encourage you all to listen online (link in image).

Sexual abuse too often funnels girls into the juvenile justice system even though they are #survivorsnotcriminals. #GirlsJusticeDay #YJAM

This is what the impact of Prop 25 would be - increased incarceration. #NoOnProp25

Repost: Brendon Woods Historic! Gavin Newsom files brief in death penalty case arguing for greater protections against racial bias in jury trials. California’s capital punishment scheme is now, and always has been, infected by racism, said Governor Newsom. Since its inception, the American death penalty has been disproportionately applied, first, to enslaved Africans and African Americans, and, later to free Black people. With this filing, we make clear that all Californi...ans deserve the same right to a jury trial that is fair, and that it is a matter of life and death. To be clear - the death penalty is racist. It is implemented in a racist way, with racist results and it must end. Thank you Professor Semel, Professor Chemerinsky and Gavin Newsom #EndTheDeathPenalty #ConfrontRacism

Don't ever give up on your human potential. I did 21 years in prison and never gave up hope. Surrounded by granite walls and despair, i wrote these words in the... notorious Bastille by the Bay: "Undoubtedly, among the most amazing sights to behold upon entering San Quentin State Prison are the randomly scattered, too high and remote to displace, wildflowers growing out of the cold, hard and otherwise desolate granite boulders that make up the seemingly impregnable perimeter walls. A casual observer may easily miss these or mistake them for something less significant, but a discerning eye, born of familiarity with such wonders, will see them for what they truly are: Life in spite of My story is an embodiment of that natural phenomenon; it is the aspiration of tiny seeds taking root in the most hopeless circumstances, against all odds, and endeavoring to bear fruit." Give you all and others will come to your aid. It was a discerning eye that saw the little seedling that pushed through the granite boulders in spite of everything designed to hold it back. Though i know that it will take more discerning eyes to help it grow, though I know that it will take more helping hands to nurture those seedlings so they spawn other seedlings, i firmly believe that the overwhelming volume and force of those seedlings is not only able to cover the prison walls and grow roots strong enough to tear those walls down, but - more importantly - i believe that their sheer beauty and collective power will evoke in the casual observers a deep and profound recognition of that potential. Let us have those discerning eyes to see it. We must have that discerning eye. We must have those helping hands.

Justice overdue!

Asking everyone who can to please support my cousin Rafael Cuevas this upcoming Monday, 10/26 at 9 am for his hearing. We have been fighting to get him released..., he's been incarcerated for over 16 years now. PLEASE join us via zoom at the link below and make sure to change your name to "Rafael Cuevas Supporter" so that the judge knows how many people are there on his behalf: https://sfsuperiorcourt-org.zoom.us/j/8297968926 DM or text me if you have any questions. If you are not able to join, please pray for him. Thank you so much to everyone who has written letters of support, amplified his story and sent positive energy his way.

It's a simple message: No one should be without food, health care & a roof over their head. Nobody! It's a simple message: No one should be without food, health care & a roof over their head. Nobody!

If you read one outrage today read this. Our immigration unit is fighting for a young man that received a gang tattoo from a government informant and that ver...y tattoo will get him killed if deported. That same tattoo is being used against him to get him removed from this country. #Outrageous #WeCanDoBetter #WeMustDoBetter #StillDefending #BattleReady See more

YWFC voters guide, for formerly incarcerated folks and first time voters is here! Check it out y’all, and VOTE https://www.youngwomenfree.org//2020-YWFC-Voters-Guide-for

Resist! Always! Standing in Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples.

Support Survivors! Oct 23 in Bakersfield