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The SERO Project shared International Women Artists' Salon's event.
The Criminalization of LGBTQ People, a panel discussion on MNN5
June 25, 2017, 9:30pm - June 30, 2017, 1:00pm
FH special "The Criminalization of LGBTQ People" it is scheduled to air on the following dates: MNN1 (Spectrum channel 34, 1994, Verizn Fios 33, RCN 82) June 25 at 9:30pm **** June 28 at 8pm MNN5 (Spectrum 1993) June 30 at 12pm You can watch from any where in the world Simultaneous broadcast at www.mnn.org click on MNN1, MNN5 ************************** Evie Litwok is the founder and director of Witness to Mass Incarceration. Witness is a digital library of interviews of formerly incarcerated women, lesbians, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. Witness aims to place LGBTQ people’s experience at the center of the fight for alternatives to mass incarceration. LGBTQ people, particularly people of color and non conforming gender, have double the population inside prison (7.9%) than they do outside prison (2.7%). Sixteen percent of transgender and gender non conforming people have spent time in prison or jail, compared to 5% of all American adults. The LGBTQ community, particularly transgender people of color and gender non conforming people, face discrimination inside prison. Transgender people of color face sexual violence, frequent harassment and being placed in solitary confinement. The Re-entry community is wholly unprepared to serve the unique needs of the formerly incarcerated LGBTQ people. One of my goals is insure the public is aware of the discrimination LGBTQ people face both inside prison and when they return home. Deep routed prejudice & discrimination against LGBTQ people resulting routine and disproportionate criminalization in the federal, states, county’s and military. This panel of formerly incarcerated LGBTQ people opens the dialogue...please join in the discourse. Zahara Green is a trans woman of color who was first incarcerated at age 16, left prison at age 24 and spent 5 years of her incarceration in solitary confinement under the guise “ she was being protected.” Under this so called protection, Zahara was raped by a fellow prisoner. Elizabeth Ramirez and three friends were babysitting her sisters children. The four lesbians ended up being accused of gang rape of the two children. The four women were stunned by the accusation. The media went wild claiming “cults” “satan”. Elizabeth spent 17 years in prison. She and the other three women, the San Antonio 4 were recently exonerated. Ken Pikela is a former lt. colonel who was openly gay and HIV positive. He was charged for exposing a younger lt. to HIV, though there was no proof of transmission. His was one of the last cases to be tried under don't ask don't tell.. Evie Litwok Founder & Director of Witness to Mass Incarceration www.WitnessToMassIncarceration.org witnesstoMI@gmail.com Zahara Green Transcending Barriers Atlanta Transcendbarriersatl.org Z.green@transcendingbarriersatl.org Elizabeth Ramirez exoneree eramirez_1992@yahoo.com Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android Ken Pinkela Communications and Military Policy Director Sero Project www.seroproject.com
Dear Community,
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED IMMEDIATELY.
URGENT:
The U.S. Senate is likely to vote next week to decimate healthcare for people living with HIV.
The result will be unnecessary death and suffering.
That is why today, Thursday, June 22, we, the undersigned, are issuing this urgent emergency call for a nationwide mobilization to defeat the Trump Administration and Senate Republicans’ plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or “Obamacare”) and replace it with their deadly “American Health Care Act” (AHCA, or "Trumpcare").
We implore people living with HIV (PLHIV) and everyone who loves us to take IMMEDIATE ACTION to contact your Senators to kill the AHCA. PWN-USA has put together a #KillTheBill Resource Centerto provide you with the tools you need to make an impact.
This is not exaggerated rhetoric. This is not a rehearsal. This is for real. The AHCA is so catastrophic that 6 members of the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) resigned in protest late last week. If you get insurance through Medicaid or the Affordable Care Act (an insurance exchange), you personally are at tremendous risk. 23 million Americans may lose coverage over the next decade; 14 million may lose it next year.
While much of the media is focused on the various investigations underway, the real right-wing agenda—leaving tens of millions uninsured by replacing the ACA with the so-called “American Health Care Act”—has moved ahead at an alarming rate. If you value the lives of PLHIV, other with preexisting conditions, and of those who rely on Medicaid for health care, take action this moment, right now, before you check your next email.
Six Republican Senators are especially high-priority targets as they have not yet committed to vote for the AHCA, or have expressed serious reservations about it: Sen. Murkowski (Alaska), Sen. Flake (Arizona), Sen. Gardner (Colorado), Sen. Collins (Maine), Sen. Heller (Nevada), Sen. Portman (Ohio), Sen. Capito (West Virginia).
What we are asking of you:
• Contact your Senators in-district office today to set up a meeting with people living with HIV (PLHIV), especially if you are in Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Ohio, Nevada, or West Virginia. If you aren't there but know someone there, forward them this email now.
• Mark your calendars now for the National HIV Call-In Day, Monday June 26th and organize everyone you know to make calls (add graphic for call in day)
• Forward this email to alert other PLHIV, our loved ones, our families and our allies and mobilize them into action, especially anyone you know who lives in AK, AZ, CO, ME, NV, OH, or WV;
• Submit letters to the editor or an op-ed article to your local newspapers and online media immediately. Here is a link to talking points you can use. We will also have an op-ed template available soon on the #KillTheBill Resource Page
• Call your Senators every day and demand they vote NO on this terrible bill. You can use the HIV Hotline, 866-246-9371, to be connected to your Senator's office. You can find more info here. National HIV Call-In Day is Monday, June 26, but you can and should call every day.
If the Senators or their staff will not agree to an appointment, go to their offices, go to their homes, go to where they shop for their groceries, go anywhere you can make your voice heard;
There is no graver or more immediate threat to people living with HIV in the U.S. than this proposed deadly “American Health Care Act."
We need all hands on deck to persuade these uncommitted Senators to oppose the AHCA when it comes up for a vote next week.
To do this, we must work together, immediately.
Help us mobilize nationally to convince uncommitted Republican Senators that for many of us, our lives depend upon their vote. You can find resources here, including a guide to setting up a meeting with your Senators, talking points, additional information and how to customize your message specific to the targeted states.��
We must defeat this bill. Our lives depend on it.
Please help.
Yours in solidarity, anger and action,
Positive Women’s Network - USA
HIV Modernization Movement - Indiana
National Working Positive Coalition
Positive Iowans Taking Charge (PITCH)
Positively Trans
Prevention Access Campaign (#UequalsU)
RiseUpToHIV
Sero Project
U.S. People Living with HIV Caucus
To all Serolisters,
This is truly, truly important. Whether or not the ACA gets repealed and Medicaid gutted will be determined in the next week based on the votes of a handful of Senators in six states.
Another way of saying the same thing is: Whether or not millions lost their health coverage, PLHIV die and the epidemic explodes will be determined in the next week based on the votes of a handful of Senators in six states.
Share the message, look at the list of Senators and make your calls, set up appointments and actions, post, share, tweet, talk, shout and scream if necessary.
The lives of tens of thousands of PLHIV depend on it.
Asking ourselves whether we will do this work right now or not is really the same as asking ourselves whether we love each other or not, whether we care if each other suffers or dies or not, whether we truly own our identities as activists, advocates and allies, or not.
We can do this. Only if "we" includes you.
Love,
Sean
Dear Community,
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED IMMEDIATELY.
URGENT: The U.S. Senate is likely to vote next week to decimate healthcare for people living with HIV.
The result will be unnecessary death and suffering.
That is why today, Thursday, June 22, we, the undersigned, are issuing this urgent emergency call for a nationwide mobilization to defeat the Trump Administration and Senate Republicans’ plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or “Obamacare”) and replace it with their deadly “American Health Care Act” (AHCA, or "Trumpcare").
We implore people living with HIV (PLHIV) and everyone who loves us to take IMMEDIATE ACTION to contact your Senators to kill the AHCA. PWN-USA has put together a #KillTheBill Resource Centerto provide you with the tools you need to make an impact.
This is not exaggerated rhetoric. This is not a rehearsal. This is for real. The AHCA is so catastrophic that 6 members of the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) resigned in protest late last week. If you get insurance through Medicaid or the Affordable Care Act (an insurance exchange), you personally are at tremendous risk. 23 million Americans may lose coverage over the next decade; 14 million may lose it next year.
While much of the media is focused on the various investigations underway, the real right-wing agenda—leaving tens of millions uninsured by replacing the ACA with the so-called “American Health Care Act”—has moved ahead at an alarming rate. If you value the lives of PLHIV, other with preexisting conditions, and of those who rely on Medicaid for health care, take action this moment, right now, before you check your next email.
Six Republican Senators are especially high-priority targets as they have not yet committed to vote for the AHCA, or have expressed serious reservations about it: Sen. Murkowski (Alaska), Sen. Flake (Arizona), Sen. Gardner (Colorado), Sen. Collins (Maine), Sen. Heller (Nevada), Sen. Portman (Ohio), Sen. Capito (West Virginia).
What we are asking of you:
Contact your Senators in-district office today to set up a meeting with people living with HIV (PLHIV), especially if you are in Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Ohio, Nevada, or West Virginia. If you aren't there but know someone there, forward them this email now.
Mark your calendars now for the National HIV Call-In Day, Monday June 26th and organize everyone you know to make calls (add graphic for call in day)
Forward this email to alert other PLHIV, our loved ones, our families and our allies and mobilize them into action, especially anyone you know who lives in AK, AZ, CO, ME, NV, OH, or WV;
Submit letters to the editor or an op-ed article to your local newspapers and online media immediately. Here is a link to talking points you can use. We will also have an op-ed template available soon on the #KillTheBill Resource Page
Call your Senators every day and demand they vote NO on this terrible bill. You can use the HIV Hotline, 866-246-9371, to be connected to your Senator's office. You can find more info here. National HIV Call-In Day is Monday, June 26, but you can and should call every day.
If the Senators or their staff will not agree to an appointment, go to their offices, go to their homes, go to where they shop for their groceries, go anywhere you can make your voice heard;
There is no graver or more immediate threat to people living with HIV in the U.S. than this proposed deadly “American Health Care Act."
We need all hands on deck to persuade these uncommitted Senators to oppose the AHCA when it comes up for a vote next week.
To do this, we must work together, immediately.
Help us mobilize nationally to convince uncommitted Republican Senators that for many of us, our lives depend upon their vote. You can find resources here, including a guide to setting up a meeting with your Senators, talking points, additional information and how to customize your message specific to the targeted states.
We must defeat this bill. Our lives depend on it.
Please help.
Yours in solidarity, anger and action,
Positive Women’s Network - USA
HIV Modernization Movement - Indiana
National Working Positive Coalition
Positive Iowans Taking Charge (PITCH)
Positively Trans
Prevention Access Campaign (#UequalsU)
RiseUpToHIV
Sero Project
U.S. People Living with HIV Caucus
Don't forget to register for the Network Empowerment Project webinar, July 11th.
Networks of PLHIV are how we can:
– Determine our own agenda;
– Define our own priorities;
– Select leadership of our own choosing;
– Hold said leadership accountable;
– Speak with a collective voice.
Register here: www.anymeeting.com/PIID=ED51DE8686483A
SERO is excited to see the Idaho Coalition for HIV Health and Safety is educating community members at various PRIDE events around the state. If you are doing something similar in your state, please share pictures with us, send to Tami Haught at tami.haught@seroproject.com and we will share them on our timelines as well. These grassroot educational opportunities are some of the best educational and outreach activities to build a strong and diverse coalition.
Idaho Coalition joins all under one roof and Idaho State University HIV Clinic at the Tribe's Men's Health Fair. Shane Ames, LPN HIV Clinic is here to provide free rapid HIV testing all day.
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