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DESCRIPTION:Dear Community,\n\nIn response to another preventable and tragic death, 
 advocates at the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) are 
 reaching out to ally organizations in the Bay to call further attention to 
 the ongoing crisis occurring at California Institution for Women (CIW). CIW 
 is at 130 percent capacity and has a suicide rate that is 8 times the 
 national average for people in women’s prisons, and 5 times the rate for 
 all California prisons.  We will be holding aTown Hall on Sunday, July 31st 
 at the Eastside Arts Alliance in Oakland and want to invite your 
 organization to endorse and be part of it.\n\nThe injustice and conditions 
 of abuse and violence at CIW are happening inside and outside of prison 
 walls across the country. Too often, lives are being lost to state violence 
 and the majority of lives stolen are Black and Brown, queer and 
 transgender. At CIW, people are dying as a result of direct neglect by 
 cops, and from medical and mental health neglect. Outside, women are being 
 killed by police. In 2013, Kayla Moore, a Black trans woman was killed by 
 the Berkeley police in her home. On May 19, 2016, a Black woman named 
 Jessica Nelson Williams was killed by San Francisco police in the Bayview 
 neighborhood. There are no shortage of examples of punishing people and 
 communities who have survived generations of racism, sexism, homophobia and 
 transphobia with policing, incarceration and neglect.\n\nJust a few weeks 
 ago Shaylene Graves, a 27 year old Black woman, died from this state 
 violence. She was six weeks away from her release. Before Shaylene, Erika 
 Rocha committed suicide. Erika was 35 years old and had been incarcerated 
 for 21 years. She was one day away from her Youth Parole Hearing. Last 
 November, five people at the CCWF women’s prison were physically abused, 
 sexually harassed and placed in solitary confinement by prison guards. They 
 are planning to bring a suit against the CDCR.\n\nLegal advocates with CCWP 
 are working with and supporting survivors inside and family members outside 
 to get much needed attention and support to those suffering behind these 
 walls. We are reaching out to you because more needs to be done.\n\nWe hope 
 that the Town Hall Meeting on Sunday, July 31st, 2016 from 3-5pm at the 
 East Side Arts Alliance can help us connect these struggles and bring more 
 attention to the ongoing crisis at CIW. We hope that you will endorse the 
 event, share the information with your networks and come to Eastside Arts 
 Alliance on July 31st. To endorse the town hall, please email 
 info@womenprisoners.org.\n\nJoin us in demanding justice for Shaylene, 
 Erika and all lives stolen by the CDCR and the police. BRING OUR LOVED ONES 
 HOME ALIVE!\n\nIn Solidarity,\n\nCalifornia Coalition for Women Prisoners\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/07/05/18788644.php
SUMMARY:Shout Their Names – A Town Hall
LOCATION:Eastside Arts Alliance\n2277 International Blvd.\nOakland, CA 94606
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/07/05/18788644.php
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