#letthemgo

[relatablejoe]

Feeling unseen? ✨ It’s time to release those who don’t appreciate your light! Remember, every journey has its purpose, and not everyone is meant to walk alongside you. - You have the fierce strength of a lion within you. - Embrace your worth. - Move forward with grace and confidence. Walk away knowing you are enough!

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[girlactionfigure]

Share their voices.

463 days after the most brutal massacre in the history of the state of Israel, these innocent hostages are still being held in captivity by blood-thirsty Hamas killers.

Don’t stop doing what you can to remind the world that they’re there in Gaza, underground, starving, cold, in the dark, far from family and friends, far from home.

Don’t stop.

[thekitsuneko]

#qotd #me #loveyourselffirst #youcomefirst #loveyourlife #workforyourself #workonyourself #workhard #liveyourlife #liveyourdream #teardownwalls #livefree #livewithless #lovewhatyoudo #dowhatyoulove #livethemoment #dowhatsbestforyou #letthemtalk #letthemgo #fightforyourself #buildyourlife #buildyourdreams #buildyourempire #keeppushing #keepgrinding #staystrong #stayfocused https://www.instagram.com/p/CV7n3y1rsQB/?utm_medium=tumblr

[exigencelost]

Okay everyone: This is it. This is our moment to act. Please, to whatever degree is possible for you, take an hour on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday morning of this coming week, 9:00AM-10:AM, to call the California governor’s office and demand release of all medically fragile people, all pregnant women, and all people over 60 years old from California’s prisons.  When COVID-19 hits the prisons it will spread like wildfire. California needs to decarcerate before that happens.  This is a matter of days, not months. We have to protect our incarcerated elders from a virus that could kill them. WE MUST BRING OUR PEOPLE HOME. Call and email to demand mass release! Share this. Do this. Pressure your friends into doing this. In this moment of growing fear and chaos it is easy to feel isolated, to feel powerless. We are not powerless. Even under these repressive conditions, we must and can stand together. We can protect each other. 

Dates:

9am-10am Monday, March 23. 

9am-10am Tuesday, March 24.

9am-10am Wednesday, March 25. 

Phone numbers:

[phone]

[phone] 

Phone script and background information are here.

Facebook event is linked above but also here.

The Justice Collaborative’s letter to Newsom is here. For those of you who are new to call-in campaigns: the campaign is intended to apply pressure. Yes, you’re delivering information, but it’s information that the governor’s office already has. They’ve already read the letter demanding decarceration, and all the sources that back it up. Your job is to show them that people are paying attention to what they do, and that people are demanding a response. SO, if they hang up on you before you finish what you’re saying, that’s okay. Just call again. And again. And again. If you go to voicemail, leave a voicemail. And if they take the phone of the hook and you start getting a busy signal because they’re getting so many calls, call the second phone number: that’s why we gave you two.  Please contact me with any questions; my askbox is open. Anon is not on but if you have a question you don’t want published, say so and I will answer it privately.  Note: this is a California campaign, but there are similar campaigns all across the country. Visit The Justice Collaborative’s website for information about decarceration calls where you live. Text of the call-in script is below the read-more, in case anyone has trouble with the links:

Call in script We have pulled out and adapted some talking points from this open letter; feel free to explore others. You will probably only have time for one or two. Pick the ones you feel most moved by.

I am calling/emailing to urge Governor Newsom to respond to the call signed by 30 community organizations to take immediate action to protect the lives of all people in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The lives of all incarcerated people as well as all CDCR employees and the families and extended communities of employees are in danger if the governor’s office fails to act quickly and decisively to reduce the population of people incarcerated.

I urge Governor Newsom to use the powers granted to him under California Government Code section 8550, the Emergency Services Act, to immediately release all medically fragile adults and adults over the age of 60 to parole supervision

This must include those serving “Life Without the Possibility of Parole” and those on Death Row.

People in this age group are at the greatest risk for death from COVID-19 yet pose the least public safety risk to our communities.

The state of California will have many deaths on its hands if it does not release all elders within the week.

I  urge Governor Newsom to release all pregnant women in CDCR custody.

I urge Governor Newsom to eliminate parole revocations for technical violations and prohibit all new prison sentences.

Social distancing is impossible in an overcrowded prison. The CDCR (California Dept of Corrections and Rehabilitation) currently has 123,000 people in prison, in facilities designed to hold 85,000 at most. Prison conditions are unsanitary and dangerous. Once the virus enters the prisons, if it has not already, it will spread like wildfire unless the governor takes immediate action to release thousands of people, right now.

Prisons will act as incubators for the virus. Prison employees will get sick and carry the virus home to their families and communities. The existence of overcrowded prisons will make COVID-19 impossible to control in the state of California. If Governor Newsom wants to protect the people of California from a devastating epidemic, he must drastically decrease prison populations, and he must do it fast, before the virus has a chance to spread inside the prisons.

Governor Newsom claims a record of “sticking his neck out and doing the right thing.” On his website, he claims that this courage and vision has “often led to sweeping changes when his policies were ultimately accepted, embraced, and replicated across the state and nation.” If Governor Newsom wants to keep that record, he must massively decarcerate California immediately. This is an unparalleled opportunity to show leadership and vision which will not only save California from disaster, it will lead the country to follow in his footsteps.

Background docs 

Justice Collaborative Covid 19 Response and Resources

New York City Department of Corrections calls  for release of high-risk inmates, including those over 60

Letter to Governor Newsom signed by Alliance for Boys and Men of Color,  ACLU of Northern California, Anti-Recidivism Coalition, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Asian Solidarity Collective, Bail Project, California Public Defenders Coalition, Californians for Safety and Justice,  California Prison Moratorium, Californians United for a Responsible Budget, Critical Resistance, Color of Change, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Initiate Justice, Justice Collaborative, La Defensiva, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, National Organization for Women, The Peace Alliance, Pillars of the Community, Policy Link, Reboot & Rebound, Resisting Injustice, San Francisco Rising, Smart Justice California, UnCommon Law, Young Women’s Freedom Center 

Second Letter to Governor Newsom

[lesaqua]

[jsydbrantley]

I’ve always found it hard to let things go. But as I get older, I appreciate it more. Knowing that there’s a maturity and courage to letting something go at the right moment in time. Knowing when it’s no longer beneficial to hold on for anyone involved. . . . In the last couple of months I’ve let a couple of things go that I’ve been involved with. Although it’s hard, it’s also freeing. Because now I can grow and hopefully it frees up others to grow without me. . . . I challenge you, if you’re holding onto something, to let it go. You know it’s time when you have to work hard to keep going at it. When it’s harder to keep going than to let go, you’ll never grow. When you have to fight yourself or even with someone else just to find reasons to stay in it. When you’re negative more often than not. When you’d rather be doing anything else. When remembering when looks better than dreaming of. It’s time to let go and grow. * * * #letgoandgrow #letitgo #letitgoquotes #moveonquotes #jsydsquotes #writersfollowwriters #growingsomewhere #allowwhatyouwant #quotestoremember #letthemgo #dowhatyoulove https://www.instagram.com/p/ByEzx0ABOxP/?igshid=36ho8zmgtm6f

[legomars]

Some people will not hear you regardless how much, how loud, how truthful, how loving or how profound you speak. Wish them well & let them go.

[haveuseenmyhalo]

Listen Closely

If someone wants to walk out of your life LET. THEM. GO.

Some people come for a lifetime and some people come for a short time. Like seasons. You can not make people stay- and you don’t want to. People choose you.

It’s ok to let them go. It’s ok that it hurts. I assure you that it will get better.

But do not try to convince someone to stay that does not want to be there. You must have more respect and love for yourself. The longer that person is taking up space in your life the less time the right person has to find it. Clear your space.