Community Angered by State Agency Calling Immigration on Client Families
DCF Must Stop Tearing Families Apart
CONTACT: Subhash Kateel: (347) 524-3374 or John De Leon (305) 778-0126
WHAT: Press Conference with Community Leaders and Advocates including the Florida Immigrant Coalition, Attorney John De Leon, Victor Arriaga, Sisterhood of Survivors, Women's Advocacy Project of the Women's Fund of Miami-Dade and others
WHEN: Wednesday, March 25th at 11:00 a.m.
WHERE: Florida Department of Children a
Free Battered Women presents:
Our Voices Within: Internally Free
Celebrating the freedom of formerly incarcerated survivors of domestic violence & honoring those who remain imprisoned.
Saturday afternoon March 28th, 2009
Doors open at 3:30pm
Start: 03/28/2009 - 1-2:30 pm
with:
Jacqueline Robarge, Rowena Simmons, and Carmen Shorter (Power Inside, Baltimore)
and Polly Riddims (Critical Resistance, Baltimore)
(Miami, March 17, 2009) – The medical care system in US immigration detention is dangerously inadequate, with unique consequences for women, and improving health care for immigration detainees should be a top priority for the new administration, Human Rights Watch and the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (FIAC) said.
Sunday Sedition, KPFA (Sunday, March 15): Sunday Sedition - March 15, 2009 at 9:00am
The spring 2009 issue of Bitch Magazine has a 3-page interview with yours truly about the issues facing incarcerated women, their acts of resistance, how and why these actions have been ignored up till this point and a reminder that change comes from the people who fight for it, not those in high and mighty places.
The interview isn't on-line, so get yourself to your favorite independent bookseller to check it out!
As most of you know, frequent flyer miles often expire before it is possible to save enough of them for a free airline ticket, seating upgrade, or other costly prize. Supermax Subscriptions asks people with these surplus miles to exchange small quantities of unused miles for magazine subscriptions to supermax prisoners.
at Left Forum, April 17 to 19, 2009 (exact time and day to be determined)
with Laura Whitehorn (former political prisoner and senior editor of POZ Magazine), Diana Block (California Coalition for Women Prisoners, The Fire Inside newsletter and author of Arm the Spirit: A Woman's Journey Underground and Back) and Joanne Macri (Immigrant Defense Project)
A discussion about women, incarceration and resistance and why this issue is important at this point in time.