Thursday, Dec 10: our town hall with community leaders to discuss the need for releases now!
The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in prisons is a human rights issue, but Gov. Newsom, CDCR Secretary and the AG are treating this as a political debate. Thousands of lives in jeopardy! We invite you to a town hall where community advocates will answer all your questions about the topic and how to put pressure on elected officials to take immediate action.
Lives depend on it!
Panelists – Leading our Community:
Geri Silva Families United to End Life Without Parole
James King State Campaigner, Ella Baker Center
Amity Foundation The Amity Foundation serves individuals, families, and children affected by recidivism, crime, homelessness, and addiction.
Please join us in urging Governor Newsom and CDCR Secretary Allison to protect all Californians, to comply with judicial orders and take immediate action to release the thousands of men and women under the CDCR’s control and who are susceptible and vulnerable to contracting COVID-19 due to the crowded and unsafe conditions of our state prisons and detention centers.
Today, we call upon Governor Newsom and Kathleen Allison, the incoming Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to choose the side of love, compassion and redemption. And we ask you to release those within our prisons who are most susceptible to COVID-19.
This is a letter initiated by members of the faith community. We invite faith leaders, people of faith, concerned family and community members to please add your name to this letter.
This month, join us along with the indigenous community to reflect how we can live with integrity as migrants, settlers, and non-indigenous people on the sacred lands we live on. We invite the interfaith community to learn more about being in right relationship with the people and their ancestry that originally inhabited California. How can congregations lead an example of reparations to the indigenous community look like in the state of California?
This vigil is being co-lead by:
Corrina Gould
Corrina Gould – a Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone woman, born and raised in Oakland, CA- or the ancient village of Huichin. She is a spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone. She is a spiritual leader and has been a key leader in raising awareness of the 40 sacred Shellmounds around the Bay Area and efforts to protect the Berkeley Shellmound. Corrina is co-founder of Sogorea Te Land Trust, an urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people.
Ariel Luckey
Ariel Luckey – a poet, performer, educator and organizer who works for healing, reparations and collective liberation. He is the creator of annual arts event Thanks Taken: rethinking thanksgiving. Ariel is co-founder of Jews on Ohlone Land, educating and organizing the local community to contribute to the Shuumi Land Tax, that is for the rematriation of Oholone Land– to restore a people to their rightful place in sacred relationship with their ancestral land.
Kathryn Gilje & Dr. Sharon Fennema Kathryn and Dr. Sharon are United Church of Christ leaders in the Northern California Nevada Conference. They will share about the recent efforts to their denomination has made to make amends for the colonizing history through repair and a redemptive land tithe. Read more: UCC Resolution for Making Amends for a Colonizing Past
