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Prison Reform: May 13, 2013 Action

justfaith — Thu, 09 May 2013 21:54:54 +0000

Monday, May 13th: Help change the CA prison system

To Formerly Incarcerated People, Their Families, Friends, Allies and ComradesWe are seeking your participation in a very unusual event – a day-long grassroots lobbying visit to the California State Capitol led by formerly incarcerated people on May 13, 2013.

BUS TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED TO SACRAMENTO SEE DETAILS ON HOW TO RSVP BELOWAs formerly incarcerated people we have been told on more than one occasion: “you have the right to remain silent!” However, when the suffering becomes too unbearable and negatively impacts all aspects of our personal, professional, family and community life, we have an obligation to speak up.

The need to speak up is especially acute when it appears that this suffering has been designed to outlast our jail or prison sentences.

We invite our brothers and sisters, supporters, allies, friends and comrades to join us and support the formerly incarcerated members of our community who have been rendered silent.

On several occasions we have been asked, why this year? Why now? Why not go to Sacramento some other time?

Here’s why THIS is an opportune time. There are currently a number of bills being considered that directly relate to our capacity to thrive as human beings. The stakes are high: our right to vote, our right to work, our right not to languish in a gang-database for the rest of our lives, and our ability to seek expungement relief – all these issues are being considered. We are witnessing the greatest change in the criminal injustice system in over 50 years. If this is not the time, then when?

We are in the process of getting funding for the buses that will be rolling out of both Northern and Southern California. We are lining up various legislators to support this effort. We are beginning to contact the various caucuses in the State House for support.

If you are formerly incarcerated – Please join us!

And all other people of good will, please come out and support formerly incarcerated people in our fight for inclusion.

Come out and add your voices to ours. Help us speak truth to power, regain our dignity and make California a better, safer place for all Californians.

For more information go to

Quest for Democracy: Grassroots Lobbying Day
or

Contact:Jerry Elster
Organizer, All of Us or None
(415)625-7042
jerry@prisonerswithchildren.org
or
Fanya Baruti
Organizer, All of Us or None
(562)688-0472
Fanya@newwayoflife.org

Note bus departures vary depending on location!
PLEASE RSVP to manuel@prisonerswithchildren.org to reserve a seat

Bus leaving Oakland on Monday, May 13th at 7:00am
Fruitvale BART Station, Oakland
Manuel (415) 637-8195
George (510) 689-7350

Bus leaving East Palo Alto/ Peninsula on Monday at 6:45-7am
Free At Last Rehabilitation Center
1796 Bay Road
East Palo Alto, CA 94303
Dorsey (415) 516-9599

Oakland and/EPA bus to pick up folks at 8am
in Richmond
2526 San Pablo Dam Rd,
San Pablo, CA 94806
Adam’s number: (510) 872-3085

Where are we meeting in Sacramento?
9:00-9:30am: Meeting on the Lawn on west side of the Capitol
10am: Meeting on the 4th floor of the State Capitol Rm 4202 at. (100 people capacity)

SUPPORTING THE CALL:

All Of Us Or None (Statewide)
Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice / CURYJ (Oakland)
Project Rebound-Associated Students Inc (SFSU)
Center for Young Women’s Development /CYWD (San Francisco)
New Way Of Life (Los Angeles)
Fathers and Families of San Joaquin
Safe Return (Richmond)
Contra Costa County Interfaith Supporting Community Organization/CCISCO
PICO California
California Coalition of Women Prisoners / CCWP
OneFam (Oakland)
United Playaz (San Francisco)
Homies Unidos (Los Angeles)
Starting Over (Riverside)
Life Support Alliance (Sacramento)
San Francisco Bay View National
Black Newspaper
Occupy 4 Prisoners (Bay Area)
Youth Justice Coalition (Los Angeles)
Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People’s Movement /FICPM (Nat’l)
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (San Francisco)
Families to Amend Three Strikes (Sacramento)
Office of Restorative Justice of the Los Angeles Archdiocese
Justice Reform Coalition
Associated Prison Ministries
United for Change
NMT/The Ripple Effect
FYI Trilogy
Insight Prison Project
Prison Watch Network
California Prison Moratorium Project
California Families Against Solitary
Confinement /CFASC
CURB Coalition
A.N.S.W.E.R.
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights

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April 28, 2013

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Catholic Students at Cal Program Fund

Tere — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:14:17 +0000

Donate to the Catholic Students at Cal Program Fund to help maintain our level of excellence in campus ministry!

Student and alumni donations will be matched by the university! Students that are graduating in 2013 can make a donation to the Catholic Students at Cal Program Fund and be matched by the university 2 to 1. (A gift from a senior to the fund of $25 will result in $75 receipt by the fund). Recent Alumni (up to 5 years graduated) can donate to the fund and be matched by the university, 1 to 1. Anyone who would like to donate to the Student Fund and have their donation matched, can give the money to a young alumnus (within 5 years of graduation) or a graduating senior.

Donations from seniors and alums must be received by June 30th, 2013 to be matched by the university. The funds we raise may be broadly applied to programming for Catholic students at UC Berkeley.

Click here to make an online donation.

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