Dec 13, 2016 - TGIJP would like to express our extreme sadness over the loss of loved ones in Oakland’s fire last weekend as well as solidarity with the survivors. Friends, partners, and many of our TGNC family members were and are among those affected.
Ghost Ship was one of the few remaining affordable creative spaces in our beloved Bay Area, where housing options for low-income people are dwindling. We are horrified that real estate speculators and government officials are using this tragedy as an excuse to push out and evict our precariously housed TGNC family members from some of the last lower-income living spaces left in the Bay.
We are also very concerned about the media misgendering people who can no longer speak for themselves. STOP.
Please join us in supporting those affected by the fire. Along with our friends at Justice Now, we are donating directly to the displaced fire survivors who are in our extended TGI family (contact us if you'd like to do the same).
“Blow up the sun!”
--Feral Pines (Rest in Power)
Ghost Ship was one of the few remaining affordable creative spaces in our beloved Bay Area, where housing options for low-income people are dwindling. We are horrified that real estate speculators and government officials are using this tragedy as an excuse to push out and evict our precariously housed TGNC family members from some of the last lower-income living spaces left in the Bay.
We are also very concerned about the media misgendering people who can no longer speak for themselves. STOP.
Please join us in supporting those affected by the fire. Along with our friends at Justice Now, we are donating directly to the displaced fire survivors who are in our extended TGI family (contact us if you'd like to do the same).
“Blow up the sun!”
--Feral Pines (Rest in Power)
TGI JUSTICE and #BLACKLIVESMATTER
December 24, 2014
To our beloved comrades, supporters, friends and allies:
Genderific greetings from the uprisings in the SF Bay Area! TGI Justice Project salutes the militant, focused, non-violent and popular actions in Ferguson and across the world rising up against policing and state violence while affirming that #BlackLivesMatter
We are proud of TGI Justice Project’s participation in the response to police violence and the non-indictment of the murderers of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Our staff and members have been out in the streets, in coalition meetings, at actions, in each-one-teach-one conversations with people as we move through the world. We have been alongside other TGI people showing up to demonstrate that no business as usual will be tolerated, that this ends today. TGI Justice Project appreciates the consideration and solidarity being extended to TGI people who are putting their bodies into the action of resistance and survival; appreciates the care from community in police vans, the attention and unity as binary jail housing is enforced on protestors, the looking out for each other as tear gas is shot, and all the ways we are holding, loving and supporting one another in this struggle as we make sure no is left behind.
Amidst the uprisings, we have endured the continued violence against trans women of color that was so present in 2014. Early in December, our siblings in the trans liberation struggle down in L.A. lost a wonderful community leader to gun violence. Rest In Power Deshawnda Sanchez. Days later, our community in Georgia had a sister torn from them when Keymori Shatoya Johnson was murdered. In this moment of anguish and anger, in a year of heightened violence against Black trans women and trans women of color, TGI Justice Project has been heartened and grounded by the truth that the fierce queer women’s leadership behind #BlackLivesMatter is building a movement that understands that Black Lives means all Black Lives: Black Trans Lives, Black Women’s Lives, Black Queer Lives, Black Poor Lives, Black People-with-Disabilities’ Lives, Black Survivors’ Lives.
While policing and criminalization disproportionately affect the Black Trans community, it is the entire reach of our family that is endangered by the devaluing of Black and Brown lives. TGI Justice Project celebrates this moment as a movement moment, a time when we are part of a collective process of changing the course of everyone’s lives by strategically focusing on changing the conditions of Black life in this country. We are here among and with you all in the Bay Area and across the country as we turn it all the way up. We at TGI Justice Project believe that we will win! For 2015, we say onward!
#TransPeopleInTheStruggle heart full of #PeoplePower & #Solidarity as we #ShutItDown #NoBusinessAsUsual #BlackLivesMatter
Be safe and stay strong!
Love,
The TGI Justice Family
December 24, 2014
To our beloved comrades, supporters, friends and allies:
Genderific greetings from the uprisings in the SF Bay Area! TGI Justice Project salutes the militant, focused, non-violent and popular actions in Ferguson and across the world rising up against policing and state violence while affirming that #BlackLivesMatter
We are proud of TGI Justice Project’s participation in the response to police violence and the non-indictment of the murderers of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Our staff and members have been out in the streets, in coalition meetings, at actions, in each-one-teach-one conversations with people as we move through the world. We have been alongside other TGI people showing up to demonstrate that no business as usual will be tolerated, that this ends today. TGI Justice Project appreciates the consideration and solidarity being extended to TGI people who are putting their bodies into the action of resistance and survival; appreciates the care from community in police vans, the attention and unity as binary jail housing is enforced on protestors, the looking out for each other as tear gas is shot, and all the ways we are holding, loving and supporting one another in this struggle as we make sure no is left behind.
Amidst the uprisings, we have endured the continued violence against trans women of color that was so present in 2014. Early in December, our siblings in the trans liberation struggle down in L.A. lost a wonderful community leader to gun violence. Rest In Power Deshawnda Sanchez. Days later, our community in Georgia had a sister torn from them when Keymori Shatoya Johnson was murdered. In this moment of anguish and anger, in a year of heightened violence against Black trans women and trans women of color, TGI Justice Project has been heartened and grounded by the truth that the fierce queer women’s leadership behind #BlackLivesMatter is building a movement that understands that Black Lives means all Black Lives: Black Trans Lives, Black Women’s Lives, Black Queer Lives, Black Poor Lives, Black People-with-Disabilities’ Lives, Black Survivors’ Lives.
While policing and criminalization disproportionately affect the Black Trans community, it is the entire reach of our family that is endangered by the devaluing of Black and Brown lives. TGI Justice Project celebrates this moment as a movement moment, a time when we are part of a collective process of changing the course of everyone’s lives by strategically focusing on changing the conditions of Black life in this country. We are here among and with you all in the Bay Area and across the country as we turn it all the way up. We at TGI Justice Project believe that we will win! For 2015, we say onward!
#TransPeopleInTheStruggle heart full of #PeoplePower & #Solidarity as we #ShutItDown #NoBusinessAsUsual #BlackLivesMatter
Be safe and stay strong!
Love,
The TGI Justice Family
Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project is in Solidarity With the People of Ferguson
August 22, 2014
The leadership team of TGI Justice holds solidarity with the family of Mike Brown and the people of
Ferguson, who have endured unspeakable human rights abuses at the hands of law enforcement
including and following the police murder of Mr. Brown on August 9th. TGI Justice Project is a group
of transgender people—inside and outside of prison—creating a united family in the struggle for
survival and freedom. We work in collaboration with others to forge a culture of resistance and
resilience to strengthen us for the fight against imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty, and
societal pressures. We seek to create a world rooted in self determination, freedom of expression, and
gender justice.
We share your pain and outrage at the loss of yet another young Black man’s life and the subsequent
assault on your community by police, and call these assaults out as clear and irrefutable examples of the
deep, systemic racism that informs the Prison Industrial Complex in this country. This is a system that
leaves our brothers, sisters, and loved ones dying in the streets or locked up in unconscionable numbers
in a dehumanizing network of jails, deportation centers, and prisons. This is a system deeply rooted in a
long and consistent history of gendered racial injustice in the United States. This is a system that seeks
to rob us of our most essential dignities as humans, and we are here to say that we join you in the
struggle against the racist police state and towards a future of self-determination for our communities.
As an organization led by formerly incarcerated Black transgender women, we are certainly no
strangers to police profiling, systemic criminalization, and brutality at the hands of law enforcement.
We are with you in heart, spirit, and action as you push back against those in power who would try to
kill, harm, degrade, and silence you. The revolutionary work you are doing in the streets of Ferguson,
standing tall in the face of what must be unbearable grief, empowers and emboldens us.
We want you to know that the eyes of the world are on Ferguson, and that your sisters, brothers, and
loved ones in the San Francisco Bay Area join you in demanding justice.
Be safe and stay strong,
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Executive Director
Janetta Johnson, Program Director
Woods Ervin, Administrative Coordinator
danni west, Development Coordinator, Leadership Team
StormMiguel Florez, Leadership Team
Malachi Garza, Leadership Team
Billy Chen, Leadership Team
Paper Buck, Leadership Team
August 22, 2014
The leadership team of TGI Justice holds solidarity with the family of Mike Brown and the people of
Ferguson, who have endured unspeakable human rights abuses at the hands of law enforcement
including and following the police murder of Mr. Brown on August 9th. TGI Justice Project is a group
of transgender people—inside and outside of prison—creating a united family in the struggle for
survival and freedom. We work in collaboration with others to forge a culture of resistance and
resilience to strengthen us for the fight against imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty, and
societal pressures. We seek to create a world rooted in self determination, freedom of expression, and
gender justice.
We share your pain and outrage at the loss of yet another young Black man’s life and the subsequent
assault on your community by police, and call these assaults out as clear and irrefutable examples of the
deep, systemic racism that informs the Prison Industrial Complex in this country. This is a system that
leaves our brothers, sisters, and loved ones dying in the streets or locked up in unconscionable numbers
in a dehumanizing network of jails, deportation centers, and prisons. This is a system deeply rooted in a
long and consistent history of gendered racial injustice in the United States. This is a system that seeks
to rob us of our most essential dignities as humans, and we are here to say that we join you in the
struggle against the racist police state and towards a future of self-determination for our communities.
As an organization led by formerly incarcerated Black transgender women, we are certainly no
strangers to police profiling, systemic criminalization, and brutality at the hands of law enforcement.
We are with you in heart, spirit, and action as you push back against those in power who would try to
kill, harm, degrade, and silence you. The revolutionary work you are doing in the streets of Ferguson,
standing tall in the face of what must be unbearable grief, empowers and emboldens us.
We want you to know that the eyes of the world are on Ferguson, and that your sisters, brothers, and
loved ones in the San Francisco Bay Area join you in demanding justice.
Be safe and stay strong,
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Executive Director
Janetta Johnson, Program Director
Woods Ervin, Administrative Coordinator
danni west, Development Coordinator, Leadership Team
StormMiguel Florez, Leadership Team
Malachi Garza, Leadership Team
Billy Chen, Leadership Team
Paper Buck, Leadership Team
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Happy Holidays! 2013
KALW Interview with TGI Justice Member, Grace Lawrence
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The issue of prison rape is often belittled by standup comedians, but it’s really no laughing matter – especially if you’re a transgender woman locked up in an all-male facility.
Grace Lawrence, 43, is a transgender woman from Liberia who was in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, for nearly three years. For all but six months, she was kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day... LISTEN HERE 
TGI JUSTICE ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR THE DEMANDS OF THE CA PRISONER HUNGER STRIKE July 25, 2013 • Oakland, CA TGI JUSTICE stands in solidarity with the mass hunger strike action inside of the California imprisonment system that started earlier this month. As an organization of trans, gender non-conforming, and intersex people (TGI)– both inside and out of prisons and jails– we support the demands to end long-term solitary confinement, abolish de-briefing/ change gang validation criteria, end group punishment, provide educational, vocational and self-help programs, and to provide adequate nutritious food. There are women locked up in many of California’s men’s prisons, and men locked up in many women’s prisons, along with gender non-conforming folks and intersex people, caught in the bind of binary administrative violence. TGI people are in the dehumanizing facilities along side strikers, participating in the strike, experiencing the firm foot of increased CDCR repression along with everybody else inside. Additionally, as TGI people we are all too familiar with the common practice here in CA, and across the country, to put TGI people into Ad Seg, SHU or solitary confinement units under the logic of “protection from the general population.” In our hearts we know that true justice and actual safety come from accountable and strong communities. For this reason, too, we know that working in coalition with non-TGI and straight, gay, or lesbian people to improve the conditions of and to end the existence of these torture units is in our own personal best interest as well as our broadest collective best interest. Whether its being punished for being yourself or for asking to be treated humanely, isolation is a repressive tool of the prison industrial complex. Already some of the strikers, and especially the leaders, have been moved to extra segregated isolation and are being blasted with frigid cold air. Ultimately, we know that justice will require a fundamental shift in the distribution of power in society even if these demands are met. We applaud the audacity of the strikers, wish the CDCR and Governor Brown to quickly meet the demands, and raise our fist in unity with all our folks, TGI and non-TGI, who are working for self-determination, freedom of expression, and racial, gender and economic justice. --------------------- Be Safe and Stay Strong, TGI Justice tgijp.org http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/ 
Jazzie Collins, a community organizer and well-known transgender activist who was involved in social justice causes in San Francisco, died Thursday, [July 11] at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in the city. She was 54 and had deteriorating health the past few weeks, friends said, although the cause of her death is being determined. Ms. Collins also was open about being HIV-positive. Ms. Collins was active - friends describe her as "fiery" and a "passionate advocate" - in causes that were factors in her life: tenants' rights, workers' rights, transgender rights and aging and health issues, among others. Christina Olague, a close friend and former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, said Ms. Collins was motivated by strong feelings against injustice and unfairness. "Empathetic is the word that comes to mind," she said. Late last month, Ms. Collins was honored for her work at the Capitol in Sacramento by the California Legislative Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus. "One thing that she always had that was very appealing was dignity," said Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, who nominated Ms. Collins for the state recognition. "I think she understood the dynamics of the challenges she faced personally and how they connected to the causes she was in personally." Ammiano said Ms. Collins "was definitely a San Franciscan, in every sense of the word." Born Sept. 24, 1958, in Memphis, Ms. Collins moved to San Francisco in 1988. She became a committed activist in 2002 with development issues at the Plaza Hotel on Sixth Street, where she lived at the time. A few years later she transitioned from male to female and worked with a wide range of community groups, along with new volunteer work in the transgender community. She was a volunteer and organizer for Senior and Disability Action and vice chair of San Francisco's LGBT Aging Policy Taskforce at the time of her death. She also served the past five years on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Trans March, which is part of the Gay Pride Month celebrations. Gabriel Haaland, a friend and fellow transgender activist, said that Ms. Collins' activism blossomed as she transitioned from male to female. "The metaphor of a butterfly is apt," Haaland said. "She really emerged to become a really beautiful person who was much happier with herself, much happier with her life. (She) just really opened up in a beautiful way." Ms. Collins is survived by her mother, Mary Mackey, four sisters and four brothers. Plans for a memorial service are pending. Wyatt Buchanan is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: wbuchanan@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @thewyatt TGI Justice Member Canonized!
Our beloved Program Coordinator and TGI Justice Member, Janetta Johnson has recently been honored in a Clarion Alley Mural in San Francisco. We are so proud of her!
Click on the photo to the right for SF Bay Guardian article. Photo taken by Stephany Joy Ashley
Grace Lawrence, 43, is a transgender woman from Liberia who was in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, for nearly three years. For all but six months, she was kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day...
LISTEN HERE Transitions at TGI Justice
Letter from our Program Director, Beck Witt August 2012 Dear Friends and Supporters, I am writing to you with the news that after 6 months of planning, I will be transitioning out of Transgender, Gender Variant & Intersex Justice Project on August 10th. TGI Justice, (and it’s precursor—the Trans and gender variant In Prison (TIP) Committee) has been my political home and chosen family for almost 9 years. I could never put into words all that I have learned and grown in my time with the organization and am grateful to you all—our members in and out of prison, partners at allied organizations, supporters of TGI Justice, current and past staff members—for all that you’ve taught me. While I will miss being a part of the everyday goings-on of the organization, I trust that the profound personal relationships that I’ve cultivated during my time here will continue after I transition out. I am excited to learn some new skills and embark on new adventures and am deeply thrilled to be able to pass on the torch. Since our founding in 2004, it has been a central goal of TGI Justice to be led by members from our base—transgender women of color who have been impacted by prisons and police. Today we are walking that walk and it is with incredible joy, excitement, and confidence that I announce TGI Justice’s newest staff members—three woman that have been participants and leaders in the organization for the past 4-8 years. Together with our Executive Director, Miss Major and our Admin Coordinator, StormMiguel Florez, I believe we’re watching history in the making with this unstoppable team. Read more HERE Article by TGI Justice Member in The Daily Beast
A Father's Day Transgender Surprise
By Maria M. Chico
The last time Maria Chico’s father saw her, she was a baby boy. Would her dad accept her 30 years later—as a woman? As told to Samantha Marshall. The last thing my father knew, he had a son. He could only ever remember me as a baby boy, swaddled in my mother’s arms. He had no idea that I was male by gender only, or that I was miserable, alone, and confused, until, at age 21, I completed a series of operations to become the person I was meant to be—a woman. So when I drove out to see him last week, our first encounter in 30 years, I felt sick with anticipation. Would he reject me, like so many other people had done before? Read more
This Is What Pride Looks like: Miss Major and the Violence, Poverty, and Incarceration of Low-Income Transgender Women by Jessica Stern
“Just because there’s this umbrella, LGBT, we’re all grouped together. But guess what? Someone poked a hole in the umbrella and the girls are still getting wet.” —Miss Major
I first met Miss Major socially in 2005 at the apartment of a mutual friend in the Bay Area; her then boyfriend, 30 years her junior, was at her side. When I began interviewing her for this article, she gave me three different ages, all of them creatively explained. What I do know is that she is a 6’2” African American transgender woman, and I believe that she is in her mid-sixties. Most often, I’ve seen her with wavy, short, grey hair in the exact style of women in my family who go to hair salons weekly. Though she received a kidney transplant four years ago, she is an unrepentant sugar addict. But I truly began to appreciate Miss Major’s character and spirit when she told me that she self-identifies as a “glamour puss,” a descriptor uniquely her own. “I like to have the right style,” she said. “Paint the face, grab my heels, make sure my purse matches, and hit it. It’s Miss Major, spelled M-I-S-S.” Our chance encounter turned into a friendship that has helped guide my path as an activist. The year after we met, when I undertook a project to document discrimination and violence against transgender people in US prisons, Miss Major was the first person I turned to for assistance. Opportunities to collaborate grew, and we later were among the organizers of Transforming Justice, a coalition gathering of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) former prisoners, attorneys, and activists to develop national priorities toward ending the criminalization and imprisonment of transgender communities. A few years later, we reconnected in Barcelona, Spain, at a meeting of transgender advocates and allies dedicated to identifying local and global patterns of and remedies for human rights violations based on gender identity. As a thirty-five-year-old white, Jewish, queer woman assigned female at birth, my differences from Miss Major are many, but our connection runs deep. Coming from opposite ends of most spectrums, we are nonetheless two femme activists bound together by a mutual fascination with the pleasures and challenges of gender expression as well as a shared quest for social, political, and economic change. And so, I seek to convey some of the personal insights and professional wisdom that Miss Major has shared with me, an analysis that is too often sidelined by the US LGBT movement. READ MORE TGI Justice documentary about the Prison Industrial ComplexLast summer, TGI Justice members participated in a Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) training series. During the training, members learned about the politics of prisons in the U.S., honed their public speaking and leadership skills, and shared their own personal thoughts and experiences about the Prison Industrial Complex. As a key part of the training, members wrote, directed, and filmed a mini-documentary in which they interviewed each other as first hand experts on the effects of the Prison Industrial Complex on trans women and their communities. Special thanks to James Tracy for his generosity and wisdom in leading the PIC training!
Miss Major speaks at FICPM ConveningOn November 2, 2011 members of TGI Justice traveled to Los Angeles for the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People’s Movement convening and the Drug Policy Alliance conference.
Both conferences were huge successes for our members. They were able to network, learn more about the movements, and bring the important and powerful voices of trans women to these movements. Our Executive Director, Miss Major spoke on a panel at the FICPM convening and really got people fired up! Thank you to our member, Miss Grace Lawrence for capturing this moment on video! PAST EVENTSTGI Justice will be shaking it up in Oakland on November 2nd
On November 2nd, 2011 TGI Justice will be closing our office in solidarity and participation with the Oakland General Strike.
For those of you participating in Occupy Oakland, or Occupy anywhere: Be Safe and Stay Strong! More info on the strike here TGI Justice Members Bring Trans Voices to Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People’s MovementTGI Justice Project members will be attending the November 2nd Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted Peoples Movement in Los Angeles, followed by theDrug Policy Alliance conference from November 3rd – November 5th.
FICPM as it is called believes that imprisonment or conviction on a felony charge should not result in a lifelong violation of our basic rights as human beings, either while we are on probation, in prison or as we make the transition from prison back into our communities. We are firmly committed to prioritizing De-Entry over Re-Entry, and oppose the concept of a Rehabilitative Industrial Complex that grows along with prisons. Below is the link to the Alabama Conference in 2011, which was also attended by Miss Major and Minister Bobbie Jean Baker. Special thanks to the Drug Policy Alliance for their generous scholarship and to all our friends and family who donated to TGI Justice toward this trip! Click here to see the movie: Inaugural Meeting of Formerly Incarcerated- Alabama, 2011 TGI Justice members complete PIC training series
On September 8, 2011, 23 members of TGI Justice completed a 5 week Prison Activism training facilitated by James Tracy of the Community Housing Partnership. During the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) training series, members learned about the politics of prisons in the U.S., honed their public speaking and leadership skills, and shared their own personal thoughts and experiences about the Prison Industrial Complex. Additionally, as a key part of the training, members wrote, directed, and filmed a mini-documentary in which they interviewed each other as first hand experts on the effects of the Prison Industrial Complex on trans women and their communities.The documentary is in the final stages of being edited. When finished it will be submitted to film festivals and shown at conferences. We will be sure to announce screenings as they occur. Special thanks to James Tracy for bringing his amazing skills to TGI Justice!
TransFaith In Color 2011 Conference
Update on the Pelican Bay Hunger StrikeWe’d like to share a letter sent out by Dorsey Nunn, the Executive Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children Thank you Dorsey for all you do!
-- On July 1, over 200 prisoners in Pelican Bay SHU (secured housing unit) began a hunger strike to protest the torture they experience and to win their human rights. At least 6,600 prisoners across California joined the hunger strike in support of their demands. LSPC has received letters from prisoners in the Pelican Bay SHU for many years, recounting the horrors that go on there. Particularly terrible is long term sensory deprivation and isolation, lasting in many cases for decades. Behind this inhumane treatment is the prison’s policy of requiring prisoners to “debrief” (inform on other prisoners) in order to be released from the SHU. An unwritten policy is in place to stop any lifer in the SHU from ever being paroled. Men imprisoned in the SHU exist for decades in metal and concrete cages, under fluorescent light 24 hours a day, deprived of human touch except for a guard locking them in handcuffs and shackles. Facing this slow death penalty, an exceptional show of racial has unity emerged. SHU prisoners issued five core demands: - End Group Punishment & Administrative Abuse - Abolish the Debriefing Policy, and Modify Active/Inactive Gang Status Criteria - Comply with the US Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons 2006 Recommendations Regarding an End to Long-Term Solitary Confinement - Provide Adequate and Nutritious Food - Expand and Provide Constructive Programming and Privileges for Indefinite SHU Status Inmates. The SHU prisoners reached out to us and other prisoner rights organizations, seeking our support for their demands and hunger strike. Legal Services for Prisoners with Children has wholeheartedly devoted itself to building support for the prisoners’ demands. I am a member of the mediation team that is working to negotiate the hunger strikers’ demands with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Today the prisoners resumed eating. They didn’t want people to die and they know implementation of their demands will take time. By ending the strike now, in this way, they believe they are better positioned to win their demands. The strike was successful because it shined a big light on CDCR’s torture and barbaric practices and mobilized many of us. The prisoners are grateful for our support, and know this is just the beginning. Continuing public pressure and possibly a class action lawsuit are needed to stop the torture. I ask that you help us win the prisoners’ basic human rights. CDCR responded to the prisoners’ demands with a good faith promise to seriously consider substantive policy change. It is up to us to make CDCR deliver. We cannot stand silent while our state prison system tortures people. Please join us in these actions to win the prisoners’ demands: - Sign up for regular action updates and sign the on-line petition at the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity website. - Call Jerry Brown’s office daily: 916.445.2841. If you know the Governor or his associates, urge Jerry Brown to grant the prisoners’ demands. - Call CDCR Secretary Matthew Cate: 916.323.6001. Urge him to grant the prisoners’ demands. - Call your elected officials. Urge them to support legislative hearings at Pelican Bay State Prison, to hear the testimony of the men imprisoned in the SHU. - Religious leaders are forming a religious delegation to talk directly to the Governor. Urge any religious leaders you may know to support this delegation and call me to get involved. - If you know legal representation with the capacity to engage in a class action lawsuit, please call me. For more information about the hunger strike please access the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity website. Please spread this message widely. In pursuit of justice, Dorsey E. Nunn 415.255.7036 x312
TGI Justice Annual Fundraiser a Huge Success!
El Rio Fundraiser
On June 26th we held our annual TGI Justice fundraiser at El Rio. The fundraiser, which was also the official SF Trans March after party, was a huge success! Thanks to the generosity of El Rio and raffle donations from Good Vibrations, AK Press, Babeland, The Sausage Factory, LE Boy, Monster Maddix, Bike Love, Annalise Ophelian, and Simply Unique Nails we raised $5,000! We also want to thank DJ Durt, OMEDJ, and DJ Jillio for spinning fabulous tunes, the SF Trans March, and everyone else who donated, helped out, and showed up! Finally, an extra gigantic thank you to Danni West for making the whole thing happen. We could not have done any of this without Danni. You can now follow TGI Justice is now on Twitter! http://twitter.com/#!/tgijp
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March 2011 411 Meeting - New Strategic Plan Unveiled
TGI Justice members met on March 29th to discuss our new strategic plan as well as to share memories of Jah’Mocca. We also had the chance to celebrate Lala’s return home!!
HomeGoing Ceremony for Jah'Mocca Moet-Iman Simone
Please join us in celebrating the life of Mocca, a beloved TGI Justice family member and former staffer. Sunday April 3, 2011. 6pm. City of Refuge church 1025 Howard Street (at 6th), SF, CA.
TGI Justice visits Valley State Prison for Women
TGI Justice joined organizers from California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), Justice Now, & CURB in attending Domestic Violence Awareness Day at Valley State Prison for Women (VSPW) in Chowchilla, CA on March 12. We felt honored to have been invited to such an incredibly moving event that included skits, music, dance, poetry, and testimony about domestic violence, organized and attended by 400 women and transgender men in prison at VSPW. Click here to read an account from the first DV Awareness day in 2006.
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