STANDING OUR GROUND WEEK OF ACTION: JULY 25 – AUGUST 1, 2014 
Raising Our Voices against Reproductive Oppression, Gender Violence, & Mass Incarceration
July 25 - August 1, 2014
Jacksonville, FL & Everywhere!

The Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign is partnering with SisterSong and many other grassroots groups to host Standing Our Ground Week of Action, a celebration of exercising our civil and human dignity rights.  Hundreds of national members and organizations collaborating with Free Marissa Now will attend week-long festivities in Jacksonville from Friday, July 25, 2014 until Friday, August 1, 2014.

Standing Our Ground Week is also an opportunity for supporters of Marissa Alexander all around the world to mobilize their communities around ending domestic violence, ending mass incarceration, and supporting all women's right to defend their lives! 

SUPPORT: To financially support the Standing Our Ground Week of Action, please donate to Project South and be sure to write "Free Marissa Now" in the organizational affiliation section. Thank you!

Details on Standing Our Ground in Jacksonville (Registration info for SisterSong Institute & other logistical info)
Details on Standing Our Ground Everywhere (Organize in your communities!)
#SelfiesForSelfDefense (Join the movement online!)

Jacksonville LiveStream:

Media Coverage:

Black Agenda Radio Interview (original link):

Standing Our Ground Week Jacksonville Schedule:

  • FRIDAY, JULY 25:
    Crowne Plaza Jacksonville Riverfront Hotel, 1201 Riverplace Boulevard
    Registration & Opening Ceremony
    Logistical details here

  • SATURDAY, JULY 26:
    Crowne Plaza Jacksonville Riverfront Hotel, 1201 Riverplace Boulevard
    10 am - 4pm: SisterSong Reproductive Justice 101, Logistical details here
    4pm - 6pm: Welcome Awards Program
    6pm - 8pm: Mingle Social/Cash Bar Social Media Party

  • SUNDAY, JULY 27: 
    10am - 2pm: Beach Action, Jacksonville Beach
    4:30pm - 9pm: Waterfront Benefit Concert to Free Marissa Alexander
    Waterfront Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr; Concert is 6 pm-9pm, VIP Room opens at 4:30 pm
    (VIP Tickets at EventBrite)

  • MONDAY, JULY 28: 
    7:30 am: March from Crowne Plaza Hotel to Duval County Courthouse, Prudential Side of Blue Bridge,
    Meet at 1201 Riverplace Boulevard, march to Duval County Courthouse, 501 W Adams St
    9 am: Press Conference, Duval County Courthouse Steps
    11 am: People's Investigation, University sin Fronteras and a People's Tribunal
    7pm - 10pm: Verbal Essence Poetry Night, Ritz Theatre and Museum, 829 N Davis St

  • TUESDAY, JULY 29:
    12pm - 2pm:     Book signing, Chamblin Bookmine, 215 N Laura St
    3 pm - 6pm: Forum on the Women's Movement and Social Change
    Keynote speaker: Prof. Beth Richie, author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation, 
    Downtown Jacksonville Library, 303 N. Laura Street, Convention Center Basement, Multipurpose Room #1, Please use Main St. Entrance

  • WEDNESDAY, JULY 30:
    1pm - 2pm: Edward Waters College, Assessment Center, 1658 Kings Road
    2pm - 5pm: Forum on Prison Industrial Complex and Mass Incarceration

  • THURSDAY, JULY 31: 
    1pm - 2pm: Edward Waters College Reception, Assessment Center, 1658 Kings Road
    2pm - 5pm: Forum on Civil Rights Law & Community Legal Support Teams
    Milne Auditorium, Edward Waters College, Grunthal St. & W. 5th St.
    6pm - 8pm: Jazz at the Ritz Theatre and Museum, 829 N Davis St

  • FRIDAY, AUGUST 1: 
    9:00am: People's Investigation/People's Tribunal, Duval County Courthouse Library, Duval County Court House

Engage online with hashtags:

#selfiesforselfdefense
#standingourground
#freemarissa
#jacksonvilleformarissa

Event Sponsors:

New Jim Crow Movement, Jacksonville; SisterSong; Radical Women; INCITE!; Free Marissa Now; African American/Black Women's Cultural Alliance; Project South; Resist; Highlander Research Center; National Congress of Black Women