A support zine for Marissa Alexander
Publisher: Brown & Proud Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 22
Subjects: Women prisoners; Family violence; Race discrimination; Administration of Criminal justice; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; African American women
Other titles: No one is free if one of us is imprisoned
Description: This political support zine tells the story of Marissa Alexander's 2010 assault by her husband, during which she fired a warning shot in self-defense. Alexander received a 20-year prison sentence under Florida's 10-20-Life mandatory minimum sentencing law, and controversial legal challenges for her freedom followed. The zine relates other criminal cases in which women of color were incarcerated following acts of self-defense or through "entrapment, coercion, and abuse by law enforcement." There is also information on mandatory sentencing minimums, as well as reprinted letters from the #31forMARISSA letter writing campaign, in which men wrote letters to Marissa sharing personal stories of how domestic violence had affected women in their lives. The typed, cut-and-paste zine includes actions for the reader to take to support Marissa, as well as a resource list.
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Purchased from the publisher, via Zibbet in 2014.
Table of contents: title: Incarcerated for surviving: stories of women of color imprisoned for self-defense; title: Incarcerated for surviving: stories of women of color imprisoned through coercion, entrapment or law enforcement violence; title: Mandatory minimums: a racial justice & domestic violence issue by the Free Marissa Now campaign; title: Incite! Call for support to free Marissa Alexander; title: #31formarissa campaign letters; title: Take action to free Marissa Alexander!; title: Resource list for further readings on women & prisons