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FREE! Our Families and Communities from the culture and industry of prison

FREE! Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment

The culture and industry of mass incarceration in the United States targets generation after generation of disenfranchised people of color to fuel private interests and bolster rural and suburban economies.

FREE! Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment is a women-led, grassroots collective of people with incarcerated loved ones, empowering, and mobilizing ourselves to create viable community alternatives to, and impact public policy around the destructive, profit-driven prison industry.

FREE! members learn to advocate on behalf of ourselves and our imprisoned loved ones, use media production facilities, and build powerful campaigns that changes lives!

FREE! develops leadership capacity for better navigation of the criminal IN*justice system through grassroots organizing, media, and legal training. We offer direct-service referrals for family members, and technological job skills training for formerly incarcerated persons and children "of-promise", while helping to expand the discourse around justice, family, and healthy community.

Our Vision is to radically change, and share in control over, institutions that currently tear apart our children, families, and communities. We believe that our families and communities can heal and become prosperous through self-determined development, and the proper allocation of a fraction of the resources wasted on warehousing our loved ones in cages in upstate New York.

Our pro-active network of New York State families and friends with loved ones behind bars is growing rapidly! JOIN US!

FREE! works in coalition with anyone working to develop resources for supporting our brothas and sistas both in and outside of prison walls.

FREE! Art Competition

FREE! will be seeking submissions for an official logo and other graphic art - sharpen your pencils and watch this space for more details!!


FREE! Speaks Against Racist Drug Laws on Rochester IndyMedia Television


Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual Online

The well-known Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual is now online thanks to students at Columbia University.
Click below to access the information:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/hrlr/JLMOnline.html


Relationships & Empowerment Brunch

May 31 2008 - 11:00am
May 31 2008 - 4:00pm

Are you in a relationship with someone who's incarcerated? Do you struggle everyday with the emotions involved in such a difficult situation? Do you worry about your loved one's health, well-being and re-entry to society?

You are not alone!

On May 31, 2008 we will host an empowerment brunch with Safiya Bandele of Medgar Evers College, Kate Rubin of the Bronx Defenders' Office and family members who deal with these situations daily.

Won't you join us for healthy meal and a healthy discussion about our relationships?

R.S.V.P. to 718-852-0012 by May 20, 2008.


U.S. Invests $$ in Prison$ - not People

See [click below] how Corrections Corporation of America (CXW) is faring as their stockholders earn big buck$ off of the heads of our brothers, sisters and elders:

Quote for CXW

An excerpt from MSN MoneyCentral article by Michael Brush:


Community in Unity’s Two-Year in the Making Victory to stop Jails Expansion

Mar 12 2008 - 5:30pm
Mar 12 2008 - 7:30pm

Join Community in Unity for a Press Conference and Victory March

Community in Unity, a coalition comprised of community members and organizations opposed to Commissioner Martin F. Horn’s proposed city-wide jail expansion plan, will hold a press conference on Wednesday, March 12th at 5:30PM at the Hunts Point train station located on Hunts Point Ave. and East 163rd St. followed by a victory march. The City of New York has finally withdrawn its plan to build a 2,040-bed $375 million Hunts Point jail.

Department of Corrections Commissioner Martin F. Horn continues the search for a different Bronx location to house a smaller facility, in order “to make it easier for family members to visit inmates and for prisoners to make court appearances.”


First /Third Tuesdays: Women of Substance

Apr 15 2008 - 6:00am
Apr 15 2008 - 8:00am

Join us as allied advocates from Justice Works Community share film and expertise about the impact the Prison Industrial Complex is reaping on women and children.

Contact founderpfcf@yahoo.com, subject: WOS RSVP


Relationships Workshop

Apr 1 2008 - 6:00pm
Apr 1 2008 - 8:00pm

TBA, at our Brooklyn Offices


Raise money for Film

Mar 25 2008 - 5:00pm
Mar 25 2008 - 7:00pm

Grassroots Fundraising for Film Training open to Media Justice Project Team members and volunteers.

Contact founderpfcf@yahoo.com, subject: Media Justice $


PRISON FAMILY OUTREACH

Mar 26 2008 - 4:00pm
Mar 26 2008 - 8:00pm

Got just the 'best' phone manner? Love turning people out to events? Want to spread the word about families of prisoners coming together? Volunteer to remind our brothers and sisters about this engaging event!

Contact founderpfcf@yahoo.com, subject: Telephone Outreach Volunteer.