Bresha Meadows Returns Home After Collective Organizing Efforts

Welcome home, Bresha. In this post, #FreeBresha organizers Colby Lenz and Mariame Kaba review how #FreeBresha successfully advocated for Bresha Meadows, an Ohio teen who was jailed after killing her father in self-defense. (Originally published at Teen Vogue) Bresha Meadows was released to return to her family on February 4, after surviving juvenile and mental health incarceration since her … More Bresha Meadows Returns Home After Collective Organizing Efforts

New Toolkit for Organizing Defense Campaigns

National grassroots organization, Survived and Punished, just released a new downloadable toolkit for organizing defense campaigns for survivors who are criminalized.  Excerpt: ​#SurvivedAndPunished: Survivor Defense as Abolitionist Praxis is a collection of tools, tips, lessons and resources developed through our own experiences. It is also an effort to document and reflect on our own movement … More New Toolkit for Organizing Defense Campaigns