EP. 10: Communities Over Cages

Angela Davis, being interviewed at Marin County Jail, in California, in 1972. Credit SVT/Story AB – Political Prisoners, Prisons and Black Liberation: Angela Davis

This week we speak with Marilynn Winn, executive director of ATL-based Women On the Rise GA which was founded in 2013 for formerly-incarcerated women of color and women targeted and/or impacted by the criminal legal system. 

This episode is a follow-up to “Abolition, Art, and Activism” where we spoke with Chicago activist ThoughtPoet about the organization BYP100 and the movement for police abolition. 

Marilynn Winn joins host and Better to Speak founder Kési Felton to discuss the aftermath of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery and Rayshard Brooks in Georgia, the importance of Black women’s leadership in this movement, and how community members can better support folks who are currently or formerly incarcerated.

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• Instagram: @womenontherisega 

• Twitter: @WomenOnTheRise1 

• Facebook: facebook.com/WomenOnTheRiseGA 

• Website: womenontherisega.org

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Learn More + Take Action:

• Communities Over Cages: Close the Jail ATL Campaign

• Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind – NY Times

• Facts about crime in the U.S. – Pew Research Center

• CHANGE: A World Without Prisons (featuring Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Mariame Kaba) – CUNY Graduate Center- Center for the Study of Women and Society

• Are Prisons Obsolete? (PDF) – Angela Y. Davis

Read the Transcript: 

The transcript for this episode is coming soon!