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Communities Over Cages w/ Marilynn Winn of Women On the Rise
Better to Speak: The Podcast
English - September 17, 2020 23:39 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBPersonal Journals Society & Culture News Politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week we speak with Marilynn Winn, executive director of ATL-based Women On the Rise GA which was founded in 2013 for formerly-incarcerated women of color and women targeted and/or impacted by the criminal legal system.
This episode is a follow-up to “Abolition, Art, and Activism” where we spoke with Chicago activist ThoughtPoet about the organization BYP100 and the movement for police abolition.
Marilynn Winn joins host and Better to Speak founder Kési Felton to discuss the aftermath of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery and Rayshard Brooks in Georgia, the importance of Black women’s leadership in this movement, and how community members can better support folks who are currently or formerly incarcerated.
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Sources:
Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind | NY Times
Facts about crime in the U.S. | Pew Research Center
Communities Over Cages: Close the Jail ATL Campaign
Additional Resources:
CHANGE: A World Without Prisons (featuring Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Mariame Kaba) | CUNY Graduate Center- Center for the Study of Women and Society
Are Prisons Obsolete? (PDF) | Angela Y. Davis
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