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NYC / NYS Holiday Financial Solidarity

for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated People, and Their Families

Mutual Aid Project

The NYC / NYS Holiday Financial Solidarity for Incarcerated Formerly Incarcerated People and Their Families Mutual Aid Project was created by NYC organizers to offer a simple way for people in the NYC area to support each other during this crisis.  We hope this project will provide material to support those who are and or have been incarcerated and their families who are in need of financial support.

 

We learned from organizers like Mariame Kaba, Dean Spade, Kelly Hayes and Delia Gando about mutual aid and are thankful for their leadership and examples of how to do this.  

Here’s how you can use this project:

 

Are you directly-impacted by incarceration and enduring financial strife during this crisis? 

Fill out this form to post a request.

 

Are you able to contribute funds? Please use this link. If you are financially secure and want to support someone whose livelihood has been impacted by this crisis, please donate.


 We hope to be able to offer financial support of $200 USD per request. We will distribute funds on a first-come-first-serve basis.  We will take requests in batches, meaning the request form will close periodically to ensure we can meet existing requests.  

This fund will close on December 31st, 2020.

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On Mutual Aid
 

Rinku Sen wrote a piece about the importance of mutual aid and exemplifies why this work is so important:

 

"But especially in times when the state dramatically fails to deliver what people need, mutual aid is a powerful way, sometimes even the only way, to help people manage daily life while sustaining their spirits in the struggle for systemic change. Organizing requires courage; courage comes from community. Mutual aid fuels the audacity to demand more because it reinforces that we are not alone in our suffering."

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Other Resources for Folks in Need in NYC

NYC COVID-19 Support 
(live document of resources in NYC around COVID19 put together by The New York State Youth Leadership Council)

Campaigns to Get People out of Prison and Jails

Release Aging People in Prison Campaign

(Emergency Clemency Work) 

#CuomoLetThemGO

#COVID19DecarcerateSyllabus 

(A Political Education Resource Curated by the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP))

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