Toward a World that Works for Everyone
A Prison Fashion Show Jumpstarted His Clothing Line. It Also Landed Him in Solitary. Being one who has done a fair amount of sewing this lifetime, I am really impressed with this fellow’s ingenuity and drive. At the bottom of this post are some ideas for change . . . By Andrew Fiouzi, MEL Magazine, […]
Starring Colman Domingo and actors impacted by incarceration, the A24 film depicts the true story of a theater troupe in New York’s Sing Sing facility—and how its members found healing By Abigail GlasgowPublished: Aug 15, 2024 https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a61865800/sing-sing-is-a-moving-testament-to-the-rehabilitative-power-of-art-in-prisons/ JJ Velasquez came home from prison only 10 months before he began filming Sing Sing. In July of […]
So much is being brought up to awareness at this time. And I know it’s the same for others I speak to. There are some absolutely critical splits and dissociations that I’m finding raised in me. Forgive me if this post is a mite long, but I’m working this one out in the moment. One […]
Apology to self, forgiveness of self — the importance of this — for the Mother Energy to rise in everyone, that remembrance of no judgement in the higher realms, truly helps create peace for Earth at this time. In past lives we have all been involved in actions where we abused power; there is not […]
From Thomas: Prejudice, discrimination, inequality, poverty, global warming, political conflict, and war can be traced back to our deeply rooted collective trauma. When collective trauma is not acknowledged and addressed it continues, affecting individuals, communities, and societies across generations. Thomas invites you to join a special Event for global healing. https://collectivetraumasummit.com/
In a recent reading I was giving, the man sitting opposite me muttered something about being, “told what to do.” When he said this my body sat upright in the chair, realizing that on my drive that morning, I had heard the same thing. He went on to say that as a child he and […]
DAY 7 from the Wisdom of Trauma team from Incarceration to Compassion with Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo, Fritzi Horstman, Gregory Nottage, & Vandrick Towns. This talk explores: early childhood trauma to prison the reality of life in prison creating trauma-informed prisons and communities More talks available here The movie with Dr. Gabor Maté, The […]
By Anonymous, briarpatch, September 2, 2021 https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/evidence-of-an-unjust-justice-system How would life look in our communities if prisons didn’t exist? If our communities had real opportunities instead of being boxed in both physically and mentally by government projects? If our people were uplifted, given a vision of togetherness and equality, not treated like crabs in a bucket […]
Volunteers team up with people currently held in solitary confinement to build empathy, compassion, and advocacy for a world without prisons. By Roshan Abraham, Yes Magazine, July 2, 2021 https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2021/07/02/solitary-gardens-help-envision-world-without-prisons In a small patch of green space on Andry Street in New Orleans’ lower ninth ward, nine garden beds lie next to one another, each […]
This isn’t necessarily easy work, because vengeance can feel good, and accountability, forgiveness, and growth can be painful, but that doesn’t make the work any less worthwhile. By exploring and engaging the different choices, we open ourselves up to the possibility of a world where our so-called justice system isn’t built around the worst-case scenario. […]
To the statement that prisons provide safety, we should ask, “Safety for whom? And from what?” By Victoria Law, Yes Magazine, April 19th, 2021 https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2021/04/19/prisons-dont-make-us-safe/ The United States now has 2.3 million people behind bars of some form or another. These are not 2.3 million isolated individuals—their imprisonment sends reverberations into their families and communities. […]
https://www.convictiondocumentary.com/ Conviction is a ‘broken society’ film, ambitious and inspired, from the inside out. With more women in prisons than ever before the film invites viewers to question the status quo, to consider a different kind of society, one that supports the most vulnerable among us. Conviction’s approach aims to collapse the ‘us’ and the […]
R/GA’s new global CMO, Ashish Prashar, explains why it’s critical for the creative industry to take the lead in dismantling the prison industrial complex. I’m one of a few formerly incarcerated people in the C-suite. I’m determined not to be the last By Ashish Prashar, Fast Company, April 2, 2021 https://www.fastcompany.com/90621014/im-one-of-a-few-formerly-incarcerated-people-in-the-c-suite-im-determined-not-to-be-the-last When the prison door […]
The heroes journey, going within to change our without. . . Gabor Maté and Fritzi Horstman have an indepth talk wondering what the world would be like if trauma was taken into account. Fritzi’s Compassion Prison Project embraces everyone from prisoners to guards in the system with their project motto this year being, Do […]
CBS News, January 6, 2021 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inmates-fundraise-to-pay-for-student/ For the past seven years, students from the Palma School in Salinas, California have been part of a book club at an unlikely place—Soledad State Prison. Mia Mirassou and Jim Micheletti founded the book club called “Exercises In Empathy.” Micheletti told CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca that students would […]
