FREE! Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment
FREE! Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment is a women-led, grassroots collective of people with incarcerated loved ones, mobilizing ourselves to develop and empower one another, impact public policy and and fight for social justice.
We offer free legal and media trainings, organizing trainings, referrals and leadership development. Our self-determined and self-sufficienct network of New York State families and friends with loved ones behind bars is growing rapidly.
MISSION
FREE! is families, friends and community activists empowering ourselves through self-determined community building, organizing and mobilizing. We provide a mutually supportive atmosphere, skills to advocate for yourself and on behalf of your imprisoned loved ones, media production facilities, and powerful campaigning that changes lives!
We reach out to families of people who are incarcerated in NYS prisons, and promote personal and social wellness with a respectful and nonjudgmental mentality and approach. FREE! challenges stigmas and stereotypes, struggles to resist prejudiced, unjust policies and systems that seek to destroy our families, and communities by warehousing our loved ones in private prisons.
VISION
To radically change and share in control over institutions that currently tear apart our families, our children, our currently incarcerated loved ones, and our directly affected communities. We do this through capacity-building projects, pro-active self-empowerment/advocacy development, grassroots organizing, media, and discourse… We work in coalition with anyone working to develop resources, materials to support our membership in and outside of prison walls.
Rally
CONTACT US:
FREE! FAMILIES RALLY for
EMANCIPATION and EMPOWERMENT
P.O. BOX 90
SYRACUSE,NY 13201
(718)300-9576
Kym Clark
Director
founderpfcf@yahoo.com
Denise Barnes
Administrator
freefamiliesinc@gmail.com
Cheri and Ricky O'Donoghue
Mandatory Minimum Drug Laws Spokespersons
codon777@aol.com
Marion Rodriguez
Resources and Referrals
hotlikfyr2003@yahoo.com
www.freefamilies.us