Standing Our Ground Week,
Jacksonville, 2014
ORGANIZING RESOURCES & FACT SHEETS
Are you organizing a Free Marissa event, writing a letter to the editor or a blog post, or just want to learn more details about Marissa's case and how to get involved? Here are some useful resources to support your efforts. Please contact us if you need other items or if you've created more resources and would like to share them here.
RESOURCES FOR RALLIES, TEACH-INS, & LETTER WRITING PROJECTS
FACT SHEETS & SOLIDARITY STATEMENTS:
FREE MARISSA NOW POSITION PAPERS:
Are you organizing a Free Marissa event, writing a letter to the editor or a blog post, or just want to learn more details about Marissa's case and how to get involved? Here are some useful resources to support your efforts. Please contact us if you need other items or if you've created more resources and would like to share them here.
RESOURCES FOR RALLIES, TEACH-INS, & LETTER WRITING PROJECTS
- ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: Marissa Alexander, State Violence, & the Southern Movement Assembly - TOOLKIT (pdf)
- #BlackWomensLivesMatter Declaration Statement (pdf)
- Flyer on how to take action to free Marissa Alexander! (pdf)
- No Selves to Defend: Curriculum for Marissa Alexander Teach-In, from Project Nia
- INCITE! / Critical Resistance Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex (link includes a popular education workshop)
- Ideas for chants at rallies (pdf)
- Sample notecard to send to Marissa Alexander (pdf)
- Download artwork by Dignidad Rebelde and Molly Crabapple.
- Purchase Free Marissa buttons and t-shirts
- Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander, by Ewuare X. Osayande
- MORE ART RESOURCES!
FACT SHEETS & SOLIDARITY STATEMENTS:
- BLACK WOMEN'S LIVES MATTER: A Framework for Black Women's Lives & Safety
- Fact sheet on Marissa Alexander’s case, from the Pacific Northwest Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander (pdf)
- Fact sheet on domestic violence and criminalization (online). Download as pdf here.
- Fact sheet on reproductive justice, domestic violence, and mass incarceration as it relates to Marissa's experiences (online)
- Fact sheet on mandatory minimums and domestic violence (online). Download as pdf here.
- Statistics on mass incarceration in the US, from the Sentencing Project (pdf)
- Free Marissa Now Talking Points (pdf) (especially useful for op/eds, media, and addresses various questions that have come up about Marissa’s case)
- Statements of Solidarity from Allies (online)
FREE MARISSA NOW POSITION PAPERS:
- Free Marissa Now position paper on mandatory minimums
Repeal Mandatory Minimums: A Racial Justice & Domestic Violence Issue (pdf) - Free Marissa Now response to Marissa Alexander's Appeal Ruling
Stand Your Ground, Guilty Unless Proven Innocent, & Movement Building (pdf) - Free Marissa Now statement on George Zimmerman verdict, 7/15/13 (pdf)
