COYOTE RI is excited to be joining our sisters at The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, who are committed to abolishing incarceration for women and girls. Bella Robinson, executive director of COYOTE RI was selected to be one of the 2022 FreeHer Fellowship Facilitators.
In solidarity with the National Council, we have dedicated this page to highlight this work and to help educate the public on these issues. We will be archiving tons of training materials as well as “In The News” to help with movement building. RI 3 Pager- Steps to closing jails_prisons
The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls Newsletter Feb 2022
Rapid Response and Legal Support Survey [link]
Fully Informed Jury Association link. Take the quiz link
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TOOLKITS, RESOUCES AND SLIDESHOW TRAININGS
- Primary Caretakers Toolkit link
- AbolitionistTools link
- Navigating Public
- Transcription app [link]
- Story Telling Tool kit link
- Electronic monitoring campaign toolkit. link
- Entering A Community Handout
- Six Seconds Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions link
- LA Alternatives to Incarceration Work Group- Report
- Entering A Community Template 2016
- direct_action_manual_3-1
- THE COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE STATEMENT )1977)
- Report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery link
- EPA’s Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (Version 2.0) link
- THE REVOLUTION STARTS AT HOME-taking risks-implementing grassroots community accountability strategies.
- Narrative_Brief_POST_COP26_Culture_Hack_Labs
- The 50 Most Influential Think Tanks in the United States link
- www.naturalreaders.com/online/ is a website that allows you to upload PDFs to it and it will read them to you for free.
- WHAT ARE PERSONAL PRONOUNS AND WHY DO THEY MATTER? link
- Legislative Tracker: Anti-Transgender Legislation link
- Collective Action DC link
- Black Out Collective-Oakland link
- Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation Tracker link
- GLITS in NY link
- Women on the Rise in GA link
- Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences link
- The Peoples Coalition For Safety and Freedom link
- CASE TEXT- LEGAL RESOURCE link
- Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps to end IMPRISONMENT link
- Safety and Freedom link
- PCSF VAWA Teach-In Resource Guide link
- Parole Justice NY link
- The Peoples Process- The 94 Crime Bill link
- GETTING OFF RIGHT: A SAFETY MANUAL FOR INJECTION DRUG USERS link
- Drug Decriminalization [e]Course link
- On Serial Killers link
- YWCA Resource List link
- Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox- Resources for a Punishment-Free World link
- Accountability Framework Facilitator Guide link
- Fumbling Towards Repair A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators link
- New Zine: What About “The Rapists?” link
- Creative Interventions Tool Kit link
- Equal Justice Initiative – EJI. link
- EJI’s Racial Justice Teaching Tools Now on Flipgrid Discovery Library link
- No New Womens Prison tool kit link
- Common Justice Guide link
- Can Do Justice Through Clemency link
- Freight Farms non profits link
- EPA’s Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (Version 2.0) link
- Music, writing project gives Maine prisoners a voice link
- Into to Political Theories for Abolitionists link
- Incite- The Revolution WillNot Be Funded Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex link
- FREE Anti Racism Workshops link
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RESEARCH- 3 pager [link]
WHY WE DON’T NEED A NEW WOMEN’S PRISON – Suffolk University link
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TRAINING WEBINARS FOLDER link
Reading Folder link
“Structure of Legal System link
Re:Power Training 1 link
Re:Power Training 2 link
Re:Power Training link
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VIDEOS & PODCASTS
- The M&Ms are not Hot Anymore: Somehow, a serious video about the evils of colonialism. link
- Charisse Shumate: “Fighting for Our Lives” Video link
- The Role of Gender and Poverty In Incarceration link
- Movie Attica link
- Laura Whitehorn, “The Impacts of the Prison Industrial Complex” link
- Episode 60: Capital with Angela Davis link
- Profile the Davis Museum exhibition, “Prison Nation. link
- JVP-NYC in conversation with former political prisoner Laura Whitehorn link
- The Origin of Race in the USA link
- Why Did Europeans Enslave Africans? link
- Capitalism Hits the Fan: Richard Wolff link
- The Drum Major Instinct by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. link
- Why Doesn’t the US Have Paid Parental Leave? link
- Why Are Prescription Drugs So Expensive? link
- ‘Unashamedly Marxist’ founder of BLM resigns link
- Angela Davis & BLM Co-Founder Alicia Garza in Conversation across Generations link
- 13TH – FULL FEATURE link
- Understanding E-Carceration: A Book Launch link
- Prison Labor: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [link
- Abolition. Feminism. Now. [link
- Van Jones: “We Will Not Live On A National Plantation Run By The Koch Brothers” 2011 link
- The Century of the Self- YouTube link
- The Century of Self – Vimeo link
- Black History & The Future of Justice link
- Paranoid Civilian Podcast link
- Automating Banishment: The Data-Driven Policing of Stolen Land link
- How the US STOLE Hawaii link
- Don’t Talk to the Police [link
- Protect the Beast, Amazon, Apple TV and iTunes link
- Momentum Webinar Series: link
- Women Abused Behind Bars link
- Joe Biden in 1993 speech warned of ‘predators on our streets’ link
- Aaron Briggs and the HMS Gaspee link
- How Black Feminists Defined Abortion Rights- link
- Compton’s Cafeteria Riot link
- Carceral Cycles of Harm: A Teach-In on The Violence Against Women Act link
- The Peoples Process link
- Cameron Bell podcast link
- People’s Coalition for Safety and Freedom Videos link
- Undoing Drugs link
- Chasing the Scream link
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts link
- Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear link
- Heaven: Can You Hear Me? link
- High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know about Drugs and Society link
- Torn Apart How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World link
- Building Accountable Communities Video Series link
- Congratulations to COYOTERIs’ research director Tara Burns who’ research “People In Alaska’s Sex Trade: Their Lived Experiences and Policy Recommendations” was covered on the Last Week Tonight by John Oliver show. link
- Implicit Bias | Concepts Unwrapped link
- Ta-Nehisi Coates: Reparations Are Not Just About Slavery But Also Centuries of Theft & Racial Terror link
- One Voice Closing Rikers link
- Why did Haiti agree to pay reparations to France after the Haitian Revolution? link
- The San People: Oldest DNA On The Planet! link
- Tuskegee Syphilis Study link
- Kwame Ture – The Principle of Capitalism link
- Angela Davis video link
- POLITICAL THEORY – Karl Marx link
- Assata Shakur on Socialism link
- Marilyn Buck (One of Assata Shakur’s Liberators) link
- Interrupting Criminalization link
- EZLN – Our Word is our Weapon Comandante MArcos video link
- Chris Hayes Podcast With Mariame Kaba | Why Is This Happening? link
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SUGGESTED READINGS- READING FOLDER [link]
- Respectability Politics Strange Bedfellows- link
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THE REBELLION AGAINST RACIAL CAPITALISM link
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Probation Profiteers In Georgia’s outsourced justice system, a traffic ticket can land you deep in the hole. link
- Twenty Million Angry Men: The Case for Including Convicted Felons in Our Jury System link
- Rebellious Mourning- The Collective Work of Grief link
- Koch Criminal Justice Reform Trojan Horse: Special Report on Reentry and Following the Money link
- A Company That Designs Jails is Spying On Activists Who Oppose Them link
- Improving Health Equity for Women Involved in the Criminal Legal System link
- The Mark of a Criminal Record link
- The Radical Capitalist Behind the Critical Race Theory Furor link
- What will future generations condemn us for? link
- As Private Prisons Surge Under Trump, Koch Brothers Launch Prison Reform Initiative link
- How the Koch Brothers Helped Bring About the Law That Shut Texas Abortion Clinics link
- The Revolution Will Not Be Funded- Beyond The Non-Profit Industrial Complex. link
- Koch’s Criminal Justice Agenda: Protect White-collar Criminals and Expand the Prison Industrial Complex link
- The New Campaign for a Sex-Free Internet; Sex, money, and the future of online free speech link May 2022
- Pantry – Alternatives to Koch Industries Consumer Products link
- If You Fund the Research, You Can Shape the World link
- No More Koch Case link
- Charles Koch funded eviction push while investing in real estate companies link
- Koch Criminal Justice Reform Trojan Horse: Special Report on Reentry and Following the Money link
- Jeff Bezos’ $100 Million Award to Van Jones was a Slimy PR Move link
- Dark Money- Jane Mayer link
- As Private Prisons Surge Under Trump, Koch Brothers Launch Prison Reform Initiative link
- They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants link
- More on Koch Brothers on Democracy now archives link
- First Step Act brings home thousands of prisoners; A win for property rights- 2019 link
- Deadly symbiosis: When ghetto and prison meet and mesh link
- Conservatives prepare new push for constitutional convention link
- Queering Sexual Violence link
- Articles on 1994 Crime Bill link
- Senators Call for Critically Needed Transparency About CIA Bulk Collection; Documents Declassified at Wyden and Heinrich’s Request- link
- Arrested Justice Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation link
- Tioni Theus, Human Trafficking, and Super Bowl LVI link
- Beyond Survival book link
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I Use ‘They’ Pronouns Because I’m Non-Binary link
- Dancing the Carceral Creep: The Feminist AntiViolence Movement and the Pursuit of Criminalization, 1973-1986 link
- Danielle Sered’s words re: Hamburger Stand from Until We Reckon link
- The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World link
- States of Incarceration link
- Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements link
- Revolutionary Books & Complimentary Texts: A Drop for Black liberation link
- As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation link
- Assata Shakur- Autobiography link
- United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination – CERD Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination link
- The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State” link
- The gender wars of household chores: a feminist comic link
- Marx on Gender and the Family: A Summary link
- The Invasion Of Ukraine: Anarchist Interventions And Geopolitical Changes link
- Anarchist Parenting link
- NO! Against Adult Supremacy Vol. 1 link
- Understanding Christian Anarchism link
- Christian Anarchism link
- Viola Liuzzo’s story, “From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo” link
- Abolitionist Futures link
- The Rise of Black Counter-Insurgency link
- Madeleine Albright Was a Killer link
- Green Criminology & Marxist Environmental Sociology link
- Peoples Movement Assembly link
- The People’s Budget link
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Let’s talk about the slavery that still exists in U.S. cotton ‘prison farms’ link
OPPRESSORS
- The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a nonprofit organization of conservative state legislators and private sector representatives who draft and share model legislation for distribution among state governments in the United States.
- CATO INSTITUTE EXPANSION AND RENOVATION link
- The Heritage Foundation link
- Koch Family wiki page link
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Koch Industries link
SUPREME COURT RULINGS
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning the relationship between campaign finance and free speech. It was argued in 2009 and decided in 2010. The court held that the free speech clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political campaigns by corporations, including nonprofit corporations, labor unions, and other associations.link]
State v. Rome :: 1994 :: Louisiana Supreme Court Decisions
ACLU, CRANSTON SETTLE MAJOR “SEARCH AND SEIZURE” CASE THAT WENT TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT [link] April 4th, 2022
Equity Challenge
- Intersectionality 101 [link]
- The urgency of intersectionality [link]
- What is intersectionality, and what does it have to do with me? [link]
- The intersectionality wars [link]
Policy and Legislation
- Is it time to legalize prostitution in RI [link]
- RI’s Bella Robinson fights to legalize prostitution, her profession at age 57 [link]
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IN THE NEWS
LaResse Harvey: The stigma of incarceration and helping Connecticut residents- link
Another transphobic law sponsored by Rep Lauren Boebert link
Kathy Boudin, Radical Imprisoned in a Fatal Robbery, Dies at 78 link
As more wrongful convictions unravel, exoneree’s help one another adjust to life beyond bar link
Inmate workers win suit against Mills administration for seizing unemployment benefits link
Biden will commute or pardon sentences of 78 non-violent people. Here are a few to know link
Almost a year on, new Boston police watchdog has processed only a few complaints of officer misconduct. Some advocates are disappointed. [link]
An interview with DARE organizer Anusha Alles on racism in the RI General Assembly [link] April 22nd, 2022
Business Tax on Freelance Writers Heads to Virginia Supreme Court [link]
Court-martial results in first conviction of general officer in Air Force history [link]
Florida inmate uses TikTok videos to expose prison issues [link]
Beyond troubling’: Current, former government officials tied to human trafficking probe in Georgia [link]
NBC 10 I-Team: Short-staffing leads to big overtime bills in Rhode Island prison system [link] April 19th, 2022
City Won’t Pay $6 Million Awarded to Man Wrongfully Imprisoned for Decades [link]April 18th, 2022
Exclusive: HUD unveils plan to help people with a criminal record find a place to live [link] April 12th, 2022
Texas Judges Claim Jurisdiction Over Facebook Lawsuit Challenging Section 230 [link] April 13th, 2022
Supporters of prison construction moratorium plan rally Saturday in Framingham [link] April 8th, 2020
Pawtucket officer charged in teen’s shooting now accused of roughing up woman [link] April 5th, 2022
Rhode Island Senators Consider Two Paths To Decriminalizing Prostitution [link] April 2022
Is it time to legalize prostitution in RI? The arguments for and against [link]April 2022
He Spent 28 Years Behind Bars for a Murder He Didn’t Commit and Died Before Seeing Justice [link] March 2022
ICE set up a fake college to catch fraudsters. Students say they were duped. After fighting the case for years, the government has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by students who alleged they were collateral damage in the sting operation. [link]
‘Geofence Warrant’ for All Cell Location Data From Area Near Robbery Is Ruled Unconstitutional [link]
President Biden signs bill making lynching a federal hate crime [link]
MA- The state’s high court in 2017 struck down a murder law that had condemned men who never killed to die behind bars. But what about those already facing that dire penalty? They are waiting. [link]
IT’S A MONEY GRAB’: BILLIONS IN COVID RELIEF GOING TO FUND POLICE AND PRISONS- [link]
Belgium Decriminalizes Prostitution[link]
‘IT’S A MONEY GRAB’: BILLIONS IN COVID RELIEF GOING TO FUND POLICE AND PRISONS [link]
ACLU CALLS ON PROVIDENCE CITY COUNCIL TO REJECT INTRUSIVE SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY [link]
FBI Will Publish Long-Delayed Police Use-of-Force Data [link]
“Brutalized with little recourse”: Colorado lawmakers take a first step to protect sex workers [link]
NYC jail guard arrested for allegedly lying in probe over loaded gun found in inmate’s cell [link]
New Hampshire released a statewide list of problem police officers. No such list exists in Massachusetts [link]
Maine man recorded by jail while on phone with lawyer won’t get new trial [link]
Governor McKee is preventing the release of paroled men convicted as juveniles because “it’s an election year” [link]
‘I can’t breathe’: Chilling video shows death of California man pinned down by cops [link]
Inmate advocacy group alleges Nebraska prison’s book policy is unconstitutional- [link]
How the Atlanta Spa Shootings—the Victims, the Survivors—Tell a Story of America [link]
Selma to Montgomery march sheds light on voting rights push [link]
Bill regulating sexual conduct while in police custody stalls in RI Assembly [link]
Preventing Violence Against Female Inmates Act would ban possible Biden plan to house transgender women in women’s prisons- [link]
The New Violence Against Women Act Aims To Protect Women From State Violence [link]
ACLU Director Steve Brown details history of prostitution laws in Rhode Island [link]
Protesters drive anti-trans Texas House candidate Jeff Younger out of event at UNT [link]
RI SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN ARCHAIC LAW WHICH DECLARED INMATES SERVING LIFE SENTENCES “CIVILLY DEAD” [link]
Guaranteed income experiment provides hope for formerly incarcerated [link]
After decades of lobbying, supporters say they have the votes in the House to pass a reparations bill [link]
Inside Forest Defenders’ Blockade of Atlanta’s “Cop City” Training Compound [link]
Her Boyfriend Killed Her Baby While She Was at Work. Oklahoma Might Lock Her Up for Life. February 10th, 2022- [link]
Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich said Moses would be a free woman—if she hadn’t insisted on exercising her constitutional right to trial. [link]
Check out the stats for this years trafficking super bowl scam.-February 16th, 2022 [link]
‘Our hearts are broken’ – groups gather at the State House to push prison moratorium bill- February 15th, 2022 [link]
Switter, the Twitter for Sex Workers, Is Shutting Down- February 14th, 2022 [link]
Police Search Rape Kit DNA To See if Victims Are Also Criminals February 15th, 2022 [link]
Protesters call for 5-year halt on prison construction in Massachusetts [link]
Texas counties reject unprecedented numbers of mail ballots ahead of March 1 primary under restrictive new law [link]
The term “black on black crime” is a particularly pernicious trope [link]
Police shot dead a record 1,055 people last year – the highest number in SEVEN years: Black people killed at twice the rate as white [link]
US Military Faces Crisis in Hawaii After Leak Poisons Water- February 6th, 2022 [link]
SCOTUS Just Blew Up the Voting Rights Act’s Ban on Racial Gerrymandering- February 7th, 2022 [link]
Happy Black History Month From Companies That Make Prison Even Lonelier- February 3, 2022 [link]
D.C. Cops Conspired to Keep Records From Reporters, Activists, and Critics, Says Lawsuit– February 3, 2022- [link]
After violence at N.J. jail, oversight committee probes housing and mental health- January 29th, 2022 [link]
Flaws plague a tool meant to help low-risk federal prisoners win early release- January 26th, 2022 [link]
Jails In Jeopardy Following New Treasury Rule: Federal Covid Relief Must Help People- January 19th, 2022 [link]
The Economic Costs of Pretrial Detention- January 19th, 2022- [link]
Atlanta Reckons with the Convict Labor that Built the City- January 18th, 2022 [link]
A new piece of legislation offered in Kentucky would “make operating a charitable bail organization unlawful.” January 18th, 2022– [link]
Conservatives prepare new push for constitutional convention- December 8th, 2021 [link]
In 1831, a group of white rioters razed the Providence neighborhood of Snowtown. Now, archaeologists are excavating its legacy- October 5th, 2021 [link]
Action Report From Fight Toxic Prisons On Lockdown Demanding Release Of Prisoners In The Midst Of Covid-19 Pandemic. April 17th, 2020 [link]
BAY AREA TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COLLECTIVE June 2016 [link]
North Carolina woman who was granted clemency by Obama after serving 21 years in prison for a drug conviction dies two years after her sentence was commuted= February 27th, 2018 [link]
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EVENTS
PRESS RELEASE Formerly Incarcerated Activists
Empowering incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women [link]