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Hey everyone! We’re currently working on a brand new website!
As such, we’re sunsetting our Tumblr, which will now serve as a standing digital archive.
Thanks so much for your continued support!
Justice for Alisha Walker is listed in Chicago Zine Fest’s Zinester Directory!
Don’t forget the only way to get our zines right now is by ordering them via Quimby’s Bookstore!
#CZF2020 is just around the corner! While you wait for the weekend festivities why not join our NEW #Zinester Directory, a spreadsheet of active zinesters to browse in perpetuity!
Submit now at :https://zcu.io/jqCw
Check out the Directory itself: https://zcu.io/STXP
INTERNATIONAL WHORES’ DAY NYC DIGITAL RALLY
JUNE 2 @ 12-2PM EST
Sex worker-hosted online rally + social takeover to honor the 45th #InternationalWhoresDay global protests!
Stay up to date, RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/IWDNYC2020
The official clemency process is dubious and daunting, but we’re still pursuing it. If you’re an anti-racist lawyer who’s serious about showing up (ie down to advise and help file pro bono) for incarcerated sex working people, get in touch.
As we navigate those “official” channels, help support our popular defense campaign by putting pressure on Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to free our comrade, Alisha Walker, and free every single person caged in Illinois.
We are calling Gov. Pritzker every single day. We email his office every single day. We’ve been doing this alongside many other amazing grassroots organizations and dedicated individuals as well.
We created a resource to help you, help us, keep raising the alarm–demanding Alisha’s and everyone’s freedom!
This resource should be shared using the shortened link:
The recording from our zine reading and talk back with our comrades Red and Alisha Walker, hosted by
Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Center is now LIVE online!
We made sure to include lots of resource links in the video’s description too!
“We got masks today.”
Alisha just called with an update! As of Saturday, May 2nd, 2:30pm est:
Each incarcerated person inside Decatur has been given one (and only one) “medical grade” mask with their name and ID number written across the front of it in sharpie (so all they can smell are the marker fumes). She also mentioned that the COs have stopped wearing gowns and the purple “rain coats” today, and are just wearing masks and gloves.
She also thinks they’re going to start allowing video visits again, and wants to test the waters by re-scheduling the ones that were canceled this past week for next week. Fingers crossed!
She recommends trying to still email her via Connect Network (wifi willing) to get in touch as phones are only being allowed once a day.
Level 1 Lockdown
We got word from Alisha last night (4/28/2020) that Decatur had put itself on “Level 1 Lockdown,” as of a few minutes ago we still believed she’d be able to leave her cell for scheduled video visits.
However, an email she sent early this (4/29) afternoon that just posted notified Red that all video visits are being suspended until further notice.
LeLe no longer has regular access to phone use or to showers. One person allowed to phones and showers at a time is what COs are instituting. She and her cellmates are being confined to their room for the entire day, a room she shares with 3 other people, who share a toilet with another 4 people on top of that. As of today, chow is being delivered again on trays directly to rooms.
She said in the email, “they [COs] are now wearing gowns and placed hazard trash by each of our doors, and now they say there is no cases here… But since that girl had a fever they went through all this… So i think they are lying. And just wont tell us whats happening.”
We are calling JB every single day. We email his office every single day. We’ve been doing this. Please join us. Let’s get our loved ones out of these hell holes.
Call JB Pritzker and tell him this is torturous! Springfield offices: 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831Chicago office: 312-814-2121
Email him via his contact form too: https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/gov/contactus/Pages/VoiceAnOpinion.aspx
Thanks for Watching!
Much love to everyone who joined us and Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Center for our Zine Reading & Talk Back with Alisha this past Friday! We’ll have a recording up ASAP as well—and we wanted to make a findable post for all those shoutouts we made during the event!
We highly suggest following Survived and Punished, Survived & Punished New York, Quimby’s Bookstore NYC, Quimby’s Bookstore, Love & Protect, Black and Pink: Milwaukee, #FreeChrystulKizer, Midwest Perzine Fest, Curandera Press, and Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration for starters!
You can support Alisha by giving to her post-release fund! https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-alisha-walker
You should follow us on Twitter for real-time updates @ supporthosechi
We highly suggest you subscribe to “Free:Survivors” S&P NY’s inside/outside newsletter and send copies to your loved ones: https://www.survivedandpunishedny.org/newsletter-campaign/
Get historical! Check out archived issues of “No More Cages” here: https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth-oai:np197v453
We also recommend reading “All Our Trials” by Emily Thuma! Snag a copy from your favorite indie bookstore online!
READ ZINES made by sex workers! Make your own! Subscribe to prison abolitionist newsletters and abolitionist zines! Write to incarcerated people!
Join inside and outside comrades from the Support Ho(s)e Collective for a zine reading, history of organizing and a conditions update from inside an Illinois prison on Friday, April 24th 2020.
This event will be held over Zoom, please RSVP for a meeting link.
Participant Bios :
Red (they/them) makes zines that center sex worker organizing, activist-oriented political education, prison/police abolition and incarcerated comrades’ stories.
Alisha Walker (she/her) is a multi-media visual artist, poet, inside organizer, (former) sex worker and criminalized survivor. LeLe is a mixed ethinic, Black woman and self-described unapologetic whore. She is a member of the Support Ho(s)e Collective. Alisha is currently (forcibly) based in Decatur, Illinois.
$10 suggested donation
11:30AM EST - 12:45PM EST
Register here: bit.ly/SxHxZineReading
S&P Webinar Recording!
We wanted to thank everyone for joining us for Survived and Punished’s #FreeThemAll: Defending Criminalized Survivors Webinar!
Special thanks to all the amazing speakers + organizers for sharing their knowledge and campaigns!
Here’s the webinar recording if you weren’t able to join!