Past as Prologue: Storytelling about Resistance to Incarceration

Conversation featuring Kathy Boudin, Monica Cosby, Laura McTighe, and Toussaint Losier, moderated by Mariame Kaba.

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Abolition, incarceration, prison, Survived and Punished

Participatory Defense Campaigns as a Strategy for Freedom

Video from Defending Survivors: Liberating Futures panel featuring organizers, including criminalized survivors and their loved ones, exploring survivor defense campaigns as a strategy for freedom and decriminalization.

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Abolition, participatory defense campaigns, Survived and Punished, survivor defense

Organizing for Freedom Across Prison Walls

Video from a Defending Survivors: Liberating Futures workshop identifying strategies to build relationships and strengthen coalitions for freedom and safety across prison walls.

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Abolition, Defending Survivors: Liberating Futures, incarceration, Survived and Punished

Valerie Seeley: Interview by Victoria Law

Seeley discusses being criminalized for self defense, being granted clemency after 17 years in prison, and why she's fighting for the freedom of women and girls still inside.

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#FreeThemAll, Abolition, clemency, criminalization, domestic violence, gender violence, mass commutations, prison, sexual violence, Survived and Punished

Alisha Walker: Survived and Punished

Alisha Walker is in prison for defending her life. #FreeAlisha

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Alisha Walker, criminalization, sex work, Survived and Punished

Bresha Meadows: Survived and Punished

Bresha Meadows is a young Black girl incarcerated for defending her life against domestic violence. She is one of tens of thousands of girls and young women locked up behind bars across the United States facing violence at the hands of the criminal punishment system. #FreeBresha, free them all!

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Paris Knox: Survived and Punished

Paris Knox is a 38-year-old Black mother sentenced to 40 years in prison for defending her life against an abusive ex-partner.

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