NO UPCOMING EVENTS
9/2/23- ATL Cabbagetown Mural Reveal to End Prison Slavery
In case you missed it! Our collaborative #endtheexception & #endslaveryinGA mural, in partnership with Worth Rises, Mural Arts Philadelphia, the Cabbagetown Initiative and 97 Estoria was revealed and installed on 9/2/23 in Cabbagetown at 727 Wylie St. SE in Atlanta. Stop by and take a look! Our mural was the 1st in a series of murals that will be installed in the South by Worth Rises & Mural Arts Philadelphia. Chapter Lead, Waleisah, and the chapter received a proclamation from Congresswoman Nikema Williams honoring the chapter's work and our campaign to end prison slavery in Georgia! Immediately after the event, we hosted a screening and discussion of "Working in Captivity: A Woman's Quest to End Slavery in Georgia" (a short film by Chapter Lead Waleisah Wilson that highlights Georgia's continued use and dependency on slavery), and social hour at the Cabbagetown Community Center. Appetizers and light refreshments were catered by Down Home Southern Catering, LLC.
In June 2023, the federal Abolition Amendment bill was re-introduced into Congress by Georgia Congresswoman Nikema Williams, along with Senators Jeff Merkley (Oregon) & Cory Booker (New Jersey), to amend the exception in the 13th amendment that legalizes slavery for people convicted of a crime. This exception has been the "excuse" used to exploit, traffic and lease human beings simply to hold on to slavery! Support the ending of the FEDERAL exception by visiting https://endtheexception.com/
Stay connected to what we are doing to #endslaveryinGA to learn more about our work, the #endslaveryinGA campaign, join the chapter or donate at https://linktr.ee/aouonga. Sign our petition to #endslaveryinGA at https://www.change.org/EndSlaveryInGA
WATCH THE FACEBOOK LIVESTREAMS:
- Part 1: Purpose of event, #EndTheException & #endslaveryinGA CTAs (call to actions) & Guest Speakers
- Part 2- Mural reveal and proclamation receipt (proclamation at 11:33)
- Part 3- post event screening of chapter lead's, Waleisah Wilson's short doc "Working in Captivity: A Woman's Quest to End Slavery in Georgia" & Networking Social Hour at the Cabbagetown Community Center, catered by Down Home Southern Catering, LLC.
2023 Liberation Tour
Now that the Chapter has announced it's campaign and intentions to change Gergia's slavery law, throughout the Spring, Summer & Fall, the Chapter will tour the state to host screenings of "Working in Captivity: A Woman's Quest to End Slavery in GA" to engage citizens, stakeholders, voters, elected officials and businesses on the much needed conversation of why the exception in the 13th amendment drives mass incarceration, incintivizes and profitizes slavery, why slavery needs to end in Georgia and to educate attendees on how much the racist, expolitive and profit driven practice harms Georgia's economy and communities.
No matter how you say it, involuntary servitude is slavery and it is wrong! Slavery is inhumane, it weakens the economy, contributes to unemployment and recidivism and does not benefit incarcerated individuals, families, victims or communites! Join us at an upcoming screening to get informed, connect with chapter members and to see how you can get involved with being a part of Georgia history by suporting our efforts to change Georgia's slavery law that currently legalizes slavery as a punishment for the conviction of a crime.
Liberation Tour Stop 1: Columbus, GA.
4/20/23 at 5:30pm.
3000 Macon Rd.
For centuries, Columbus city government and businesses have profited from the FREE labor of incarcerated people in exchange for millions in revenue! It's time to have the conversation on ending Columbus' dependency on slavery, it's plans going forward and how it can become a change agent and leader in ending the practice of leasing human beings in exchange for profit!
Panelists:
- Waleisah Wilson, AOUON GA Chapter Lead, Activist & Filmmaker of "Working in Captivity: A Woman's Quest to End Slavery in Georgia"
- Jerome Lawson, Formerly Incarcerated Community Leader & Owner of
Jerome's TwistSkillit (featured in the film)
- Toyia Tucker, City Council District 4
- Dr. J. Aleem Hud, Community Leader & Founder of Project Rebound, Inc. (featured in the film)
- Page Dukes, Activist & Filmmaker of "Until We All Count"
Light Refreshments Sponsored by: Woman With A Plan, Lawrenceville
- To view photos from the Columbus screening and discussion, visit the photo gallery
Liberation Tour Stop 2: Atlanta, GA. 5/30/23 at 5:30pm. (Hapeville)
Atlanta is home to the infamous Chattahoochee Brick Co. where its labor was performed by the free labor of primarily black people (men, women and children) who had been arrested for petty crimes (if any crimes at all). These workers were severely abused and many of them perished at the factory. This leads people to believe that there are graves there, as there is a cemetery on the property. (source: The Grisly History of the Chattahoochee Brick Company).
Incarcerated women were doubly burdened, performing domestic duties in prison camps and in the homes of white families in addition to strenuous manual labor alongside incarcerated men. Even while performing demanding and dangerous tasks like breaking rock, shoveling and hauling wet clay, and baking brick near extremely hot kilns, incarcerated women were expected to wear “female clothing" and often subjected to sexual assault on a daily basis. Georgia was not only one of the first states to exploit the labor of incarcerated women for railroad construction; it also built the first all-female work camp in 1885 in Atlanta where the wome were required to make the 40,000 odd bricks used to build the adjacent Fulton County Almshouse. In another female camp, the Bolton Broom Factory, women produced brooms. The number of incarcerated Black women far surpassed the number of incarcerated white women. While large numbers of Black men were arrested for vagrancy, many Black women were charged with minor offenses such as arguing or using profane language in public. (source: Women in Convict Camps)
The city of Atlanta, which recently purchased the land that the Chattahoochee Brick Company sat on to "honor and comemorate the lives lost there" claims to be "Moving Atlanta Forward" and has an "Invest Atlanta" program that claims to create equity and prosperity for ALL of Atlanta. However, the city ACTIVELY exploits currently incarcerated people through slavery and forgets that people incarcerated in its city and state that calls Atlanta home (and their families) also deserve equity and the opportunity to prosper. However, the city prefers to support a practice that causes more harm to a large number of its population that are not only denied housing but are discriminated against in employment by the very same businesses, including the city and state, that they worked for years and decades for free but are denied once released!
Georgia's continued use of slavery harms communities, especially Black communities, as its Black citizens are disproportionately subjected to arrest, incarceration and longer sentences that subject them to being slaves, contributes to unemployment of newly released individuals as well as people on the outside who are denied these jobs for a wage, stifles economic growth and incarcerating people costs Georgia taxpayers over $1 billion dollars annually! WE DON'T NEED TO USE SLAVERY TO BE ECONOMICALLY PRODUCTIVE, TO PUNISH OR TO "TEACH" SKILLS. The city of South Fulton proves that by NOT using slave labor!
Panelists:
- Waleisah Wilson, AOUON GA Chapter Lead, Activist & Filmmaker of "Working in Captivity: A Woman's Quest to End Slavery in GA"
- Jessica Umberger- Formerly Incarcerated Community Leader & Advocate (featured in film)
- Robyn Hasan, Executive Director of Women on the Rise & National Leader
- Donna Stephens- Founder and Chair of the Chattahoochee Brick Company Descendants Coalition
Moderator: Chantaye McLaughlin, AOUONGA chapter member and entrepreneur
Light Refreshments Sponsored by: Women on the Rise
- To view photos from the Atlanta screening and discussion, visit the photo gallery
6/15/23. 6pm EST. Virtual. Juneteenth: We Still Not Free in 2023!
In the spirit and question of Frederick Douglass' infamous question "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", to honor Juneteenth and to answer the question of "What to the Incarcerated Person (the modern day slave) is Juneteenth?", on June 15th, at 6pm EST the GA chapter of All of Us or None hosted "WE STILL NOT FREE in 2023: A Discussion on Mass Incarceration & Prison Labor (the new slavery)". This virtual discussion aimed to answer why Juneteenth is celebrated as a day of freedom for Black people when so many Black people are still not free by way of incarceration, prison slave labor, probation and parole and carceral debt? The conversation topics addressed mass incarceration. prison labor, the rising number of women and girls impacted by mass incarceration, carceral debt, their roots to chattel slavery and why it needs to end in Georgia. We also screened "Working in Captivity: A Woman's Quest to End Slavery in GA", a short documentary by our chapter lead, Waleisah Wilson, on forced labor in Georgia jails and prisons and show you how you can join the movement to #endslaveryinGA!
Guest Panelists:
- Dr. Chalana McFarland, Formerly Incarcerated Leader,
Board Director of
NewLife-Second Chance Outreach, Inc. & AOUON GA Chapter Member
- Melodie Jones, Formerly Incarcerated Leader & Membership Organizer, Women on the Rise
- Atteeyah Hollie, Deputy Director of Southern Center for Human Rights and author of the American Bar Association's article Criminalizing Poverty Through the Market in Incarcerated People
- Waleisah Wilson, AOUON GA Chapter Lead, Activist & Filmmaker of "Working in Captivity: A Woman's Quest to End Slavery in GA"
Moderator: Robyn Hasan, Executive Director of Women on the Rise & AOUON GA Chapter Member
Suggested readings to help you understand why slavery never ended and why we are still not free in 2023!
- Read Frederick Douglass' 1852 speech "What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?"
- Read Atteeyah Hollie's American Bar Association's article Criminalizing Poverty Through the Market in Incarcerated People that explains how local and state governments "market in incarcerated people,” a catch-all term for the “financial incentives and legal mechanisms that enable mass incarceration revenue streams, federal policy mandates, administrative and municipal actions" and learn the two key reasons why probation is such an economic boon for for-profit companies.
- Read more on the Black Codes and how they actually kept slavery alive and legal through mass incarceration
- To read more on the roots and exploitation of leasing incarcerated humans for the sole purpose of holding on to slavery and to make a profit, read "The convict leasing system: Slavery in its worst aspects".
- Read How corporations exploit the 13th amendment loophole to make a profit
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