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ENDORSE! Endorsers are key in the movement to free Marissa Alexander.  If you or your organization, collective, business, campus, or faith community would like to endorse, please visit this page.  To read statements of solidarity with Marissa from individuals and organizations, visit this page.

The following three lists represent some of the groups and advocates who have endorsed the call to free Marissa Alexander from prison.  Below these three lists, you'll find a complete list of over 150 endorsers and supporters, including over 75 local, state-wide, and national anti-domestic violence agencies across the US.

Florida-Based Organizations & Individuals
  • Andrew Johnson, former member Florida House of Representatives
  • Glorious Johnson, former City Council Member/Jacksonville, Florida
  • State Representative Mia L. Jones, Florida House of Representatives
  • CASA (Community Action Stops Abuse)
  • Jacksonville Area National Organization for Women (Jacksonville, FL)
  • Florida National Organization for Women
  • Florida New Majority
  • iPolitical Global
  • Miami Law Human Rights Clinic
  • National Congress of Black Women (Orlando chapter)
  • New Jim Crow Movement
  • Occupy Jacksonville (Jacksonville, FL)
  • Organizing for Action (Jacksonville, FL)
  • Power U Center for Social Change
  • Project R.E.A.C.H. Inc. 
  • Renewed Life Ministry (Jacksonville, FL)
  • Silent for What
  • Sisterhood of Survivors / Miami Workers Center
  • South Florida Prisoner Book Project
  • Southern Freedom Movement
Additionally, The Honorable Corrine Brown, U.S. Representative from Florida and State Senator Dwight Bullard, Florida Senate, have both been vocal, passionate supporters of Marissa Alexander's freedom.

National Advocacy Organizations:
  • African-American/Black Women’s Cultural Alliance
  • Black Women's Blueprint
  • INCITE!
  • Families Against Mandatory Minimums·
  • National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
  • National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs
  • National Conference of Black Lawyers
  • National Congress of Black Women
  • National Lawyers Guild
  • National Network to End Domestic Violence
  • National Organization for Women
  • National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
  • Radical Women
  • Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network (RAINN)
  • UniteWomen.org
  • The Women of Color Network (WOCN), a project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
Other Notable Advocates:
  • Dr. Michelle Alexander, legal scholar and author of the book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  • Suzanne Pharr, community organizer and strategist, political educator, trainer, speaker, and writer, Knoxville, TN
  • Katha Pollitt, journalist, The Nation
  • Dr. Beth E. Richie, University of Illinois, Chicago, author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation
  • Rita Smith, Executive Director, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Complete list of organizational & individual endorsements, as well as other supporters:

ORGANIZATIONAL ENDORSEMENTS:

A CALL TO MEN
Af3irm San Diego
African-American/Black Women’s Cultural Alliance
American Samoa Alliance Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
Anti-Sexism Committee of the National Lawyers Guild
Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Asian Women’s Shelter
Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Black Girls Unscripted
Black Skeptics Los Angeles
Black Women for Wellness
Black Women's Blueprint
California Coalition for Women Prisoners
Campaign for Women’s Reproductive Rights, Melbourne, AustraliaCherokee Family Violence Center
CASA (Community Action Stops Abuse)
Cherokee Family Violence Center
Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander
Cleveland Peace & Power Alliance
Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Committee Against Police Brutality
Community Base Domestic Violence Support Group
Comunidad Liberación/Liberation Community
CONNECT
Correctional Association of New York
Critical Resistance
DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence Advocacy Center
Domestic Violence Services of Benton & Franklin Counties
DOVE (Domestic Violence Ended), Inc.
DreamActivist
Elizabeth Freeman Center, Inc.
End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin: the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence
End Stand Your Ground (Metairie, LA)
Equal Action
Faith Action for Women in Need (FAWN)
FaithTrust Institute
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Family Therapy Institute of Suffolk (NY)
Fearless Leading by the Youth - F.L.Y.
Fight For Lifers West
Florida National Organization for Women
Florida New Majority
For the Birds Collective (NYC)
Freedom Socialist Party
Gender Justice LA
Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Girls for Gender Equity
Green Party of Seattle
Harbor Communities Overcoming Violence - HarborCOV
HAVEN of Tioga County Pennsylvania
Idle No More, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence
INCITE!
Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Indigenous Social Justice Association - Melbourne (ISJA Melbourne, Australia) 
International Black Women’s Film Festival
Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence
iPolitical Global (Jacksonville, FL)
Jacksonville Area National Organization for Women
Jane Doe Inc., the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
Jennifer Beach Foundation
JC Rayford Research Inst.
Justice for My Sister Collective
Justice for Trayvon Martin, Los Angeles
Justice for Trayvon Martin, San Jose 
Justice Now
Justice Works
The Kandake Dance Theatre for Social Change
Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence
Kentucky Domestic Violence Association
Khametica Aspired
King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence
LAGAI - Queer Insurrection
Life Enrichment Bookstore, Seattle
Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence
Mecca's Place
Miami Law Human Rights Clinic
Mississippi Coaltion Against Domestic Violence
Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
Moco Gallery Oakland
Montana Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence
MoveOn.org (Atlanta Council) 
NAACP Carson/Torrance Branch 
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs
National Conference of Black Lawyers
National Congress of Black Women
National Lawyers Guild
National Network to End Domestic Violence
National Organization for Women
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
NOW-NJ (National Organization for Women-New Jersey)
Nebraska Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Coalition
The Network/La Red
New Beginnings
New Jersey Coalition for Battered Women
New Jim Crow Movement
New Voices Pittsburgh: Women of Color for Reproductive Justice
New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
North Dakota Council on Abused Women’s Services
Northern New Jersey National Organization for Women
The Northwest Network of LGBT Survivors of AbuseNorthwest Oregon Labor Council
Occupy Jacksonville (Jacksonville, FL)
Ohio Domestic Violence Network
Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
One in Three Women
Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity (OWLS)
Organizing for Action (Jacksonville, FL)
Oscar Grant Foundation
Pacific Northwest Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander
Partners With Justice (Cincinnati, OH-based)
The PEACH Project
People Respecting Individual Diversity Everywhere
Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence
The People's Law Firm
People Respecting Individual Diversity Everywhere
People’s Organization for Progress, New Jersey
Philly Survivor Support Collective
Police Brutality Prevention Project
Power U Center for Social Change
Project NIA
Project South
PROJECT R.E.A.C.H. INC.
Radical Women
Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network (RAINN)
Renewed Life Ministry (Jacksonville, FL)
Resource Generation
San Francisco Bay Area Old Lesbians Organizing for Change
San Francisco Women Against Rape
Seattle Women In Black
Secret Sisters Network
Silent for What
Sistahs Talking Back
Sisters Empowerment Network, Inc.
Sisters Inside Inc
Sisters Organize for Survival
Social Justice Book Club of Austin
South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault 
South Dakota Coalition Ending Domestic and Sexual Violence
South Florida Prisoner Book Project
Southern Freedom Movement
Sunshine Community Outreach, INC
Support New York
Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic & Sexual Violence
Toronto Activists for Social Change
UFCW Local 555
UniteWomen.org
UPWARD (Uniting Peace with Actions, Respect & Dignity)
Vermont Network Against Domestic & Sexual Violence
Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance
Voice of the Ex-Offender
Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence
WISH (Washington Incarceration Stops Here)
Women Helping Others to Resist Exploitation and Sexism
Women in Prison Defense Committee - Pittsburgh
Women of Color & Allies Essex County NOW Chapter
The Women of Color Network (WOCN), a project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
Women of Color United
Women of Vision (Tacoma, WA)
Women’s Health & Justice Initiative
Women Who NEVER Give UP, Inc.
Women With A Vision, Inc.
WORD - Women Organized to Resist and Defend
Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

MORE SUPPORTERS

Corrine Brown, U.S. Representative from Florida
Rev. Jesse Jackson
Martin Luther King III

NAACP - Jacksonville, Florida and national chapters
Oakland Longshore Union, ILWU Local 10 
Sisterhood of Survivors
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Southwest Workers Union

INDIVIDUAL ENDORSEMENTS (Affiliation listed for identification only):

Veronica Morris Moore - F.L.Y.Opal Tometi - Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Netfah Amina-Afia, Simply Netfah Wholistic Boutique
William C. Anderson, ColorofChange.org  
Sheila Anderson-Cobb
Barbara Baldwin
Chelsea Baldwin, Colorado Department of Human Services Domestic Violence Programs
Rebecca Balog, advocate, tribal, people of color
Carrie Banks
Lindsay Bannon
Amina Baraka, community activist/poet
Amiri Baraka, Unity & Struggle
Satyam Barakoti
Alisa Bierria, Center for Race & Gender, UC Berkeley; INCITE!
Maria Bilbao, Brigham & Women’s Hospital  
Theresa A. Bivaletz, Passaic County Women’s Center
Antoinette Bonsignore
Colby Brin, Steiner Sports
Jeff Bryson
Cynthia Cabot, Guam Coalition Against Sexual Assault & Family Violence
Richard Carrier
Caitlin Casey
Heidi Cautrell
Mardi Chadwick 
Paige Chicklo
Whisper CK, 
INSPIRE - HIV Prevention
Juli Claussen
Cathy Coleman
Sumayya Coleman
Amy Cook
Karma Cottman, DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Precious Creavalle
Sheila Crosby
Susie Day, writer & activist
Erick De La Torre, BIENESTAR
Miriam Delgado, East Los Angeles Women’s Center
Betty Dell Williams, The Refuge Domestic Violence Shelter
Michelle Deutch
Nancy M Duke
Rev. Anne Dunlap, Comunidad Liberación/Liberation Community
Daryna Eismont
Jennifer Eyl 
Mancela Ferrira
susan flindt
Nadine Flores
Glen Ford, Executive editor, Black Agenda Report
Rick Fortin
China Fortson-Vice President, Women of Vision (Tacoma, WA)
Rev. Dr. Marie M. Fortune, FaithTrust Institute
Annie Isabel Fukushima, Rutgers University
Erinn Gailey, Domestic Violence Services of Benton & Franklin Counties
Estafania Galvis
Yolanda Gotier, Executive Director of Domestic Violence Program
Victoria Guerra, East Los Angeles Women’s Center
Laurence G. Hanks
James E. Harris, New Jersey NAACP President
Derek Hill
Thomas Hofer
Ann Holder, Pratt Institute
Tani Ikeda, imMEDIAte Justice
Victoria Jackson
Andy Johnson, radio host, former member Florida State House of Representatives
Glorious Johnson (Former City Council Member/Jacksonville, Florida)
R Johnson, JKJ Enterprises
State Representative Mia L. Jones, Florida House of Representatives
Lynn Kelly
Stephen Kennedy, Kennedy Connections LLC
Kathryn Kirui
Melissa Koczur-Mitchell
Kim C. Lopez, Women of Color Task Force NJ
Heather MacGumerait
Hadayai Majeed, Administrator Baitul Salaam Network, Inc.-International
Ina Martinez, UPWARD
Katherine Mastroianni
shirley matulich
Ann & Bill McMillian
Donna McMillian
Erika Miller, Steps to End Family Violence
Mia Mingus, Disability Justice Activist and BATJC
Wally Mitchell
Robert Montgomerie
Zayid Muhammad, New Black Panther Party
Anna Lauren Murphree
Dave Murray
Nadine Naber
Terri Neal
Chinero Nnamani
Linda Osmundsun, CASA (Community Action Stops Abuse)
Linda A Osmundson
Rachel Picher
Katha Pollitt
Carla Osorio, Community Education for Social Action (CESA)
Sid Peterson, King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Suzanne Pharr, community organizer and strategist, political educator, trainer, speaker, and writer from Knoxville, TN
Lynn Peters
Kourou Pich
Judith Radtke
Anu Ramanathan, Humanists of Washington, Seattle Atheists
Judy Rayford, JC Rayford Research Inst.
Diane Raymond
Beth E. Richie, University of Illinois, Chicago, author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation
Brenda Riggs
Victoria D. Robinson 
Chastity Rogers
Pam Rudd
Carol Rudisill
Inka Schomer
Bonnie Shapiro, NOW-NJ
Angela sim
Dante Sims
Andrea Smith, UC Riverside
Christine Smith
Sunjay Smith 
Dean Spade, Associate Professor, Seattle University School of Law
Monica Spain
Barbara Spalding, Police Brutality Prevention Project
Betty Spraggins
Grant Stancliff, Communications Director at Equality Ohio
Vicky Stapleton, Executive Action VP of NOW-NJ; Women in NAACP Morris County
Michael B. Stovall, Jr.
Cynthia Strait
Emily Thuma 
Defne Tutu
Megan Walker
Karina Wasson
William Wheeler, Banyan Tree Project, Inc.Rev. Justin White, Mississippi Methodist Federation of Social Action
Laura Whitehorn, ex-political prisoner
Dr. JeffriAnne Wilder, Sociologist and Race Scholar, University of North Florida
James Wright, union activist and former SCLC Field Organizer

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