The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls

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The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls has just launched our New England-wide campaign. We're so excited to work with you to end the incarceration of women and girls and #FreeHer! We have in-person events planned in every New England state, virtual events, and campaign work that we can get you involved with. Check back here regularly as we add more events. Thank you so much for your support, and we’re looking forward to seeing you soon!

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Standout Canvass Against Prison Design MA Canvass December 4, 2024 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM ET Downtown Boston - register for more details We are continuing to pressure the architects designing the new women's prison in Massachusetts to be accountable to the community and stop profiting off incarceration and trauma. Join us in the streets outside their offices in downtown Boston to let the community know about their complicity in the harm of incarceration. Sign up here for more details including the specific address.

FreeHer Massachusetts Phone Bank MA Phone Bank December 5, 2024 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET Virtual - Register to receive Zoom Link

A SAFE SPACE GROUP CT Community Event December 5, 2024 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM ET FreeHer Connecticut Office, 50 Store Ave Unit 106, Waterbury, CT 06705 Topics: Healing, Reflection of Experiences, Resilience and Strength. Why Participate? Influence Change: You may be the change that someone may need. Let's build up cities based on healing, accountability, and love. Connect & Collaborate: Create a sisterhood and break generational experiences of incarceration. Be Heard: Your opinions will shape decisions that matter.

FreeHer Jump-In CT Community Event December 6, 2024 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET WOW CENTER, 308 Walnut St, Waterbury, CT 06704 FreeHer Jump-In is all about uplifting our women and girls in a health and wellness setting. We will offer Yoga/warmups, Double Dutch/workouts, Meditation/cool downs. If you are looking to learn, grow, and heal join us every Friday.

Quilt Making CT Community Event December 7, 2024 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM ET FreeHer Connecticut Office, 50 Store Ave Unit 106, Waterbury, CT 06705 Once a month we will come together to support our women in Niantic CI. We will show our love and support by creating a State of CT quilt with the name of our comrades who are serving decades of prison time. We support and honor by creating quilts around the country of our comrades serving long prison sentences which will become a part of a quilting tour done yearly. Come out and support in the love of creating this memorable piece of art as we remember them all. FreeHerCT

FreeHer MA Town Hall--Anti Prison Architects Focus MA Community Event December 9, 2024 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET Virtual - Register to receive Zoom Link Join The National Council and Families for Justice as Healing to learn about our mission, values, history, and legislative priorities for 2024. This town hall will focus on the architect group contracted to design the new women's prison in Massachusetts, our fight to halt prison construction so far, and plans for action. See how you can plug in to the FreeHer Campaign in MA, and learn about how the design community can abstain from carceral construction! We will share our vision for decarceration and reimagining communities on the way to abolition, and make space for Q&A!

FreeHer Massachusetts Phone Bank MA Phone Bank December 12, 2024 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET Virtual - Register to receive Zoom Link

A SAFE SPACE GROUP CT Community Event December 12, 2024 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM ET FreeHer Connecticut Office, 50 Store Ave, Unit 106, Waterbury, CT 06705 Topics: Healing, Reflection of Experiences, Resilience and Strength. Why Participate? Influence Change: You may be the change that someone may need. Let's build up cities based on healing, accountability, and love. Connect & Collaborate: Create a sisterhood and break generational experiences of incarceration. Be Heard: Your opinions will shape decisions that matter.

FreeHer Jump-In CT Community Event December 13, 2024 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET WOW CENTER, 308 Walnut St, Waterbury, CT 06704 FreeHer Jump-In is all about uplifting our women and girls in a health and wellness setting. We will offer Yoga/warmups, Double Dutch/workouts, Meditation/cool downs. If you are looking to learn, grow, and heal join us every Friday.

Letter Writing CT Community Event December 17, 2024 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM ET FreeHer Connecticut Office, 50 Store Ave Unit 106, Waterbury, CT 06705 We understand that prison isn't a place to heal. Join monthly letter writing session, to encourage and connect with our mothers, sisters, daughters, grandmothers, aunts, and cousins.

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