SUPPORT FAMILIES OF PRISONERS - NOW!
Submitted by FREE on November 4, 2009 - 5:09pm.
FREE! is working hard to raise $5,000 by December 10, 2009, to distribute our original Survival Guide, a reference created BY and FOR people with incarcerated loved ones. Please make a donation to support our efforts! If 100 people give $50, we'll reach our goal!
Any contribution is appreciated. No donation is too small, from $5.00 to $5,000!
Your gift goes a long way toward supporting families torn apart by mass incarceration.
Thank you for supporting FREE!
Launch our Survival Guide with us!!
Submitted by FREE on November 3, 2009 - 8:12am.Family Survival Guide Launch Party
Submitted by Marion on November 2, 2009 - 11:39am.The party starts at 4:00pm and ends at 7:00pm on Saturday, November 14th, 2009, at La Pregunta Arts Café, 1528 Amsterdam Avenue, between 135th and 136th Streets in Harlem.
FREE! announces the launch of our original "Survival Guide" written by families for families and people affected by incarceration. On Saturday November, 14, 2009 we will have an afternoon fundraiser event at La Pregunta Arts Cafe in Harlem, NYC from 4-8 pm in collaboration with the launch of Inside Out Art's 2-week exhibition of original artwork by currently incarcerated men and women. Proceeds from sales of artwork at this event will be shared with FREE!
FREE! Families Film Forum presents: IN PRISON MY WHOLE LIFE- View Trailer HERE
Submitted by FREE on September 28, 2009 - 6:14pm.FREE! Families Film Forum NOVEMBER FEATURE: IN PRISON MY WHOLE LIFE featuring Angela Davis, Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky, Snoop Dogg, Wyclef....
Visitors Rights Meeting
Submitted by FREE on September 28, 2009 - 2:49pm.Should Visitors to prisons have ANY RIGHTS? Are you FREE to visit your loved one without being treated less than human??
If you have a loved one in prison or have been incarcerated?, then you know how important visits are for the health of the whole family!
If you believe visitors to prison should be treated with dignity, fairness and humanity, join our planning committee:
Planning meeting for Visitors Rights campaign. 6pm sharp until 8pm sharp.
La Pregunta Arts Cafe, 1528 Amsterdam Ave, between 135th/136th streets (across from City College).
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: "The Visitors" - inside the PRISON VISIT Watch Trailer!
“Just because your child makes a mistake, doesn’t mean you stop loving them…” -Ivey Walton, FREE! Steering Committee Member
The Visitors
Melis Birder
64 minutes
$$$ FREE! Art Contest!! $$$
FREE! will be seeking submissions for an official logo and other graphic art - sharpen your pencils - WIN MONEY!!
What does FREE! LOOK LIKE??
CURRENTLY AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED PERSONS ENCOURAGED TO APPLY
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FREE! is seeking submissions of original visual art and graphics that can be used as a logo and/or for organizational promotional materials. The image should be simple, powerful, and active, and reflect what our organization is about:
FREE! Families Rally for Emancipation (FREEDOM) and Empowerment (SELF DETERMINATION).
FREE! Intern/Volunteer Opportunities
INTERNS NEEDED (ACADEMIC CREDIT can be arranged) Several Opportunities:
FREE! Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment is a grassroots, women-led organization that empowers people with incarcerated loved ones through self-advocacy trainings, hands-on organizing and mobilizing, and Media Justice projects. Two million people in the U.S. are in prison, over 66,000 of them in New York State alone. The majority of incarcerated New Yorkers come from seven disenfranchised neighborhoods in NYC, making poor people of color as the primary targets of the Prison Industrial Complex.
Stop the Contract!!
Submitted by visitor on March 7, 2008 - 11:06pm.Thought the work was done because you're paying less for calls from Prison? WRONG! There's STILL a monopoly contract that's controlled by the State and the service provider, now GlobalTel Link. If you're committed to seeing Prison Telephone Justice through to true victory, contact founderpfcf@yahoo.com, subject: Stop the Contract and we'll link you in to the campaign work that continues...