Until We Are All Free MovementUntil We Are All Free Movement Until We Are All Free is a human rights...
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Until We Are All Free Movement Until We Are All Free is a human rights organization led by formerly incarcerated criminal justice experts. We focus on building capital, resources and support to provide pathways to civic and economic liberation for individuals disenfranchised by mass incarceration.
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Until We Are All Free Movement
Until We Are All Free is a human rights
organization led by formerly
incarcerated criminal justice experts.
We focus on building capital, resources
and support to provide pathways to
civic and economic liberation for
individuals disenfranchised by mass incarceration.
Why Us?
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Photo Credits: Emily
Baxter, We Are All
Criminals
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Kevin’s Video
People arethe resource…
Until We Are All Free is
OUR solution,
…to healing from and ending Mass
Incarceration
The Vision for the Until We Are All Free
Movement…
• We understand that the most valuable resource on earth is our people, and we honor the gifts, talents, and full lives of each person in our communities by investing in the internal capital of our people and by creating spaces and pathways for each of us toward freedom. Our Vision is to see all of us with the space and resources we need to restore our humanity and return to our communities as valued neighbors, until we are all free.
The Philosophy for how we work with
humans…
• We believe the only pathway to liberation is through holistic, trauma-informed relationships with the individuals we serve. Our foundational values are centered in the power of the collective, healing, community, integrity, joy, culture, individuality, humility and dedication. We seek out the expertise of people who have first-hand experience with human rights violations such as Mass Incarceration and provide them with the space and resources they need to restore their humanity and return to our communities as valued neighbors and invaluable partners in our collective liberation in the fight for freedom.
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Core Programs
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• Pre-Release, Continuous until
release
• Weekly work sessions via
phone with a monthly
Educational budget to lead
from the inside while being
connected to the larger
community.
• Other Benefits: Reentry
Savings Account (monthly
contribution from program start
to release), Monthly
communication funds & basic
essential funds.
***Individuals shouldn’t have to
choose between going without basic
essentials or talking to family &
staying connected.
Family and community ARE basic
essentials
• Post-release, 2 month breathe
and launching pad
• Day of Release: Welcome Home
Kit + clothing/shoes funds + The
reentry savings account funds.
• First 60 Days Home: Students
receive a project stipend to
work collectively on various
justice related projects while
they identify personal long-term
goals. As our students begin to
identify their own skills and
pathways, UWAAF Movement
covers the costs associated
with business startups,
supplies, and/or general
launch costs based on the
individual's goals.
• Over 2-3 months, students receive 8
individual and collective sessions
focused exclusively on learning the
skills in the areas each student feels
most unprepared. The sessions may
focus, on things such as-
technology & internet,
professional development, social
and relational development, family
reunification, balance & self care,
community organizing and leading.
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Freedom
Campaigns
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Ambassador
Onboarding
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Frontline
Support
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Internal
Investment
• Post-Conviction legal navigation
support- Compile all case
information from the incarcerated
individual and their family, and
prepare the individual's case for
commutation, Wrongful Conviction
Review, or Pardon process.
• While in process, the navigators also
create a social platform for each
individual to solicit support from the
community as they get closer to the
pardon board or ready to be handed off to an appellate attorney
Collective Community
Justice Work
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This is the work that brings out the
deepest parts of ourselves, the
work that leads to a Revolution.
UWAAF and our recently released
community members are collectively
creating and publishing a human based
reentry handbook for our brothers and
sisters who are yet to come home.
Through a compilation of reentry stories
and experiences written collectively by
the individuals who have been through
reentry, our hope is that this handbook
gives individuals coming out of
incarceration the wisdom and pathway
to success, although and in spite of, the
unexpected challenges that come while
navigating through the reentry process.
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To support scholars of the Prison-to-Law
Pipeline, we are developing a law firm and
a reentry clinic—the connective tissue of
which is frontline resources and investment
from Until We Are All Free—that will
employ and support Pipeline graduates
while undertaking impact litigation that is
central to our legal revolution.
THE LEGAL REVOLUTION
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Legal Revolution Video
How does this solution
correlate with victimization
and harm?
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Our men and women coming home are still coming home as fathers,
mothers, aunties, uncles, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters…
We are setting their children up for a vulnerable pathway , a pathway
that is likely to lead towards victimization
…When kids have their
parents back, we can begin to
disrupt the cycles of
incarceration, oppression,
and violence…
This is what human healing
looks like…
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UWAAF Videos- Kahlee, Noelle, Antonio
