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Portrait of incarcerated survivor Wendy Howard with text reading "Defund prisons. Defend survivors. 90% of incarcerated people in women's prisons are survivors of sexual/domestic violence. #JusticeforWendy." Sign a petition for her freedom here.…

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Portrait of incarcerated survivor Tomiekia Johnson with text reading "Defund prisons. Defend survivors. 90% of incarcerated people in women's prisons are survivors of sexual/domestic violence. #FreeTomiekia" Sign a petition for her freedom here.…

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Portrait of incarcerated survivor Stacey Dyer with text reading "Defund prisons. Defend survivors. 90% of incarcerated people in women's prisons are survivors of sexual/domestic violence. #FreeStacey" Sign her commutation petition here.…

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Portrait of incarcerated survivor Michaele L. Bowers with text reading "Defund prisons. Defend survivors. 90% of incarcerated people in women's prisons are survivors of sexual/domestic violence. #JusticeforMichaele." Contribute to. her legal fees…

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Portrait of incarcerated survivor Rae Harris with text reading "Defund prisons. Defend survivors. 90% of incarcerated people in women's prisons are survivors of sexual/domestic violence. Free SRae (Kanoa)." A petition for their commutation is here.…

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Portrait of incarcerated survivor Janetta Leiva with text reading "Defund prisons. Defend survivors. 90% of incarcerated people in women's prisons are survivors of sexual/domestic violence. #Freebrandy." It links to a petition for her freedom here.…

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Portrait of incarcerated survivor Brandy Scott with text reading "Defund prisons. Defend survivors. 90% of incarcerated people in women's prisons are survivors of sexual/domestic violence. #Freebrandy." Contribute to her survival fund here.…

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Portrait of incarcerated survivor Arlene Dugmore with text reading "90% of incarcerated people in women's prisons are survivors of sexual/domestic violence. #FreeArlene."

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Instagram Caption by Voices of San Quentin: "When coronavirus first broke out at the prison, people who tested positive were put into the Adjustment Center. James King @jamesking0314 campaigner for @ellabakercenter explains that the Adjustment…

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Voices of San Quentin Instagram Caption: "Adnan Khan @akhan1437 Co-founder and ED of Restore Justice @restorejusticecal just received a call — desperate plea for help — from an incarcerated hospital worker inside #SanQuentin who has tested positive…

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Instagram caption by Voices of San Quentin "This is Chanthon Bun, who was released from San Quentin on July 1, 2020 after over 20 years of incarceration. This morning we reported that Chanthon tested positive and was in the hospital, but as of a few…

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510.SQ6PoliticalRally.photo.pdf
"Fleeta Drumgo, Bato Talamantez, David Johnson and Sundiata Tate attend a rally sponsored by the National Alliance Against Racism and Oppression. The rally took place at the Olvera Street Plaza in Los Angeles, California."

510.SQ6withInezGarcia.photo.pdf
Bato Talamantez, David Johnson, Inez Garcia and Sundiata Tate at a rally at the San Francisco Civic Center.

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“Crime After Crime” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and earned over 25 awards in the US and abroad. The film received a national primetime broadcast on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, and was a Critics’ Pick in The New York Times, Washington…

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Graphic created for the #StopSanQuentinOutbreak June 16, 2020 day of action media toolkit. The image description reads
"Sketched image of San Quentin State Prison in tan and dark brown. The heading reads “#StopSanQuentinOutbreak” in large yellow…

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Postcard with a portrait of Tracee Ward by Billie Simões Belo and the text "Commutation for Tracee Ward. Give survivors and youth of color a chance at freedom."

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Kelley Ward describes her work organizing the domestic violence education at Valley State Prison for Women.

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Kelley Savage narrates her life and activism while sentenced to life without parole at Valley State Prison for Women and Central California Women's Facility. She discusses the leadership of the LWOP population in organizing and supporting others and…

Mary Shields Impact of Shumate.mp3
Mary Shields discusses how Charisse Shumate inspired her and other prisoners to continue fighting for dignity and freedom and the impact of the CCWP.

Interview with Mary Shields (2).mp3
Mary Shields narrates her life story. The trauma of years of domestic violence and abuse at the hands of three different men devastated her emotionally and eventually led to her incarceration. Unable to escape an abusive marriage without the support…

Mary Shields Medical Abuse 1.mp3
Mary Shields describes the horrific medical neglect and abuse that led her and Charisse Shumate to organize to form the California Coalition for Women Prisoners

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Build Strong Communities Not Prisons and Jails! Poster for Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), featuring marchers, artists, and aa young person working in a greenhouse.

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Issue of the Fire Inside focusing on bullying, but also including a tribute to Flozelle Muka Woodmore and reporting from the Chowchilla Freedom rally.

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Graphic of an incarcerated person with a raised fist chained to a the covid virus with the text "Prisons are a pandemic."

Shumate V. Wilson Complaint Class Action.pdf
This April 4, 1995 complaint initiated a class action lawsuit under in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California against the governor of California and California prison officials regarding the medical care provided to women…

CIM&CIW Protest.mp4
On May 23rd, 2020, a caravan of nearly 60 vehicles made stops in front of the California Institution for Men and California Institution for Women prisons in Chino, where family members of inmates and advocates protested conditions inside the…

510.remembering.our.sister.judy.ricci.2.4.2005.pdf
Memorial program for Judy Ricci, known as Doctor Juju by her friends. Ricci passed away after a long struggle with HIV and Hepatitis C, and was known as a HIV peer health educator and hospice volunteer. About 40 friends, many from the peer…

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Graphic of a milk cartoon with the text "Missing: 2.3 million Americans from their friends , family, and community. Abolish the prison industrial complex" It was created by Nicolas Lampert for the Justseeds/Critical Resistance portfolio “Voices from…

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August 28, 1971 issue of The Black Panther which memorializes George Jackson

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This silent black and white film depicts the massive crowd at George Jackson's funeral around St. Augustine's Church in Oakland, CA. Black Panther Party and community members stand near a car with raised fists.

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From the description: "This 37-minute video was created in collaboration with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and focuses on the life of Charisse Shumate and women in California state prisons. It includes amazing prison interviews as…

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Includes rare footage of George Jackson, Georgia Jackson, Angela Davis, Attica and San Quentin prisons.

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This photo illustrates a vigil organized by Justice LA at the LA Hall of Justice to honor the 12,000 people caged in Los Angeles jails and the 877 people murdered by law enforcement in the past year. It was inspired by L.A resident Tupac Shakur's…

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Testimony from Eric Wayne about the abuse and mistreatment experienced by minority groups.

4.25.20 Statement from Eric Wayne.m4a
Testimony from Eric Wayne who is incarcerated in Santa Rita Jail about the living conditions and impact of COVID-19

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This photo includes long term members of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners at their 20th Anniversary celebration at the Women's Building.

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From California Revealed: "August 1986 1. Work begins at Richard J. Donavan Correctional Facility at Rock Mountain in San Diego. Construction workers are breaking ground and laying foundation. Aerial shots of construction are shown. 2. At California…

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Photo of Kelley Savage and a comrade unpacking her things from a car trunk after her release.

Georgia Jackson is interviewed in this rare 1971 news report “work print” discovered by the Freedom Archives. The film also features interviews with George and with Angela Davis, who was incarcerated at the time in the Marin County Courthouse jail. …

"This 37-minute video was created in collaboration with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and focuses on the life of Charisse Shumate and women in California state prisons. It includes amazing prison interviews as well as materials from…

Lydia-Crumbley.pdf
Graphic created for the Critical Resistance ten year anniversary conference in Oakland, California, which took place in 2008. It illustrates two women holding the roots of a tree.

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A graphic mimicking the visual style of the police reform 8 Can't Wait campaign but putting forward abolitionist demands from the 8 to Abolition collective. As the collective argues, "The end goal of these reforms is not to create better,…

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1970 cover of Soledad Brother

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1990 cover of George Jackson's Blood in My Eye

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2001 cover of Angela Davis' book Women, Race & Class

FI45Final.pdf
Commemorative issue of the newsletter of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners, reflecting on the history of the organization and the impact of the newsletter itself.

Letter-to-Governor-Newsom_CDCR_COVID_19-1.pdf
A letter from a coalition of more than 20 California justice organizations to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, imploring him to take immediate steps to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in state prisons and the surrounding communities.

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Two people hold a broken chain on a bi-lingual poster for Enlace's prison divestment campaign.

MicahBizant_FreeThemAll.pdf
A woman sits with a cane, next to text that reads "Free them all. More than 2.3 million people in U.S prisons and detention camps risk infection."

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Graphic of broken chains with the text "Free them all. Free survivors."

AmorYResistance_color.pdf
Print created as part of the Justseeds and Critical Resistance project, Ten Voices From Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex, for the Critical Resistance ten year anniversary conference in Oakland, California, which took place in…

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Print created as part of the Justseeds and Critical Resistance project, Ten Voices From Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex, for the Critical Resistance ten year anniversary conference in Oakland, California, which took place in…

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"This photograph appears with the article "Shoot-out Figure: Altar Boy, Black Revolutionary," Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 1970: pg. 3. Jonathan Peter Jackson and Angela Davis protesting in Los Angeles."

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Protestors hold up a "Free Huey" banner and photographs of Panther leadership at a demonstration in De Fremery Park

Jonathan Peter Jackson (face obscured by sign) walking with Angela Davis at march for the Soledad Brothers in Los Angeles, Calif., 1970.jpg
"DURING A PROTEST MARCH--Jonathan Peter Jackson, 17, walked beside Angela Davis as she led a march here June 19 in behalf of three black Soledad prisoners, one of them his brother. Identification of Jonathan in this photo was made by his father."

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Angela Davis speaks into a megaphone.

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George Jackson writing in a notebook

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Smiling black and white portrait of George Jackson

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Portrait of Fleeta Drumgo smiling

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From the National Museum of African American History and Culture: "FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) wanted poster for Angela Yvonne Davis. The poster features two pictures of Davis as well as descriptive information about her physical features.…

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Cover of Vol. V No. 7 of The Black Panther depicting Jonathan Jackson storming Marin County Courthouse

510.legal.services.prisoners.children.Spring2001.pdf
Newsletter which details the October 2000 hearings on Prison Construction and Operations where women testified to abuses at California women's prisons.

FA.CIW.no.title.at.all.V1.N1.1974.pdf
Collection of poems on daily life, love, and resistance by women incarcerated at California Institution for Women.

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Ariel photo of the yard during the Attica uprising.

510.The_San_Quentin_Six.pdf
This document discusses George Jackson's escape attempt and murder and the the charges against and unjust detention of the San Quentin Six within the San Quentin Adjustment Center.

FA.SanQuentinAdjustmentCenter.floorplan.pdf
Floorplan of the San Quentin Adjustment Center during George Jackson's escape, including who lived in cells and the positions of killed officers.

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Landscape photograph of Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, California.

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Shields embraces a friend and comrade from the CCWP one week after she was released from Central California Women’s Facility.

510.folsom.manifesto.11.3.1970.HD.pdf
List of 31 demands and manifesto in support of the California state wide prison strike from men incarcerated at Folsom Prison. The demands focused on a wide range of individual and structural issues, from medical care to legal representation to…

SoledadBrothersPamphlet.HD.pdf
This introductory pamphlet includes articles about the case and each of the brothers, along with photos of them and their families. Articles include Soledad Brothers; This is what happened January 1970; The Men in Chains; The Peculiar Institution of…

SoledadBrothersNewsletter.nov1970.HD.pdf
"Most of this issue is devoted to descriptions and analysis of prisons, prison life and prison rulers. Included are excerpts from George Jackson's recently book of letters, stories about the prisoners strike at Folsom Prison, the Soledad trials, and…

MedicalConditionsTreatmentofPrisoners.HD.pdf
Letters from anonymous residents of the maximum security O and X Wings at Soledad expose the gruesome abuse and medical neglect incarcerated men faced daily.

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Black and white portrait of Mary Shields after her release from Central California Women's Facility.
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