Dear Fabulous HAVOQ/PAW Community, At the April 2013 SFPAW/HAVOQ general meeting, people of color – including past and present members, former board members and community stakeholders – led an intervention to make us aware of our failure as an organization and as individuals to adequately address the ways in which oppressive racial dynamics, including anti-black racism, [...]
News and Updates
New book on Borders and the PIC uses HAVOQ image for cover!
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013
Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis was released by the University of Georgia Press. This collection of essays, edited by Jenna Loyd, Matt Mitchelson, and Andrew Burridge, brings together organizers, researchers, and journalists to develop abolitionist, no borders, and decolonial strategies for social justice and liberation. The cover for the book is [...]
No Tasers for the SFPD
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
This month, SFPAW/HAVOQ joined a broad coalition of community groups opposing the acquisition and use of tasers by the SFPD. (Read some powerful words from the Coalition on Homelessness here and from Poor Magazine here) Tasers are a deadly weapon and do not make our communities safer. SFPAW/HAVOQ opposes tasers because they contribute to and [...]
Border Militarization Study Guide Released: Includes Undoing Borders
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
On February 4th, the Alliance for Global Justice released the first of a series of lessons examining the deadly impacts of the militarization of the US/Mexico border region. The Border Militarization Study Guide is a series of 12 units, released weekly. Each lesson includes a Preface, Video and/or Audio Testimony, Feature Articles, Discussion and [...]
Special Bonus Legal Letters with TGI Justice Project: Sunday Afternoon!
Monday, February 11th, 2013
Join TGI Justice Project and HAVOQ/SF Pride at Work for an awesome afternoon of responding to mail from queer & trans prisoners around the country. If you’ve never made it out on one of our Wed night Prison Mail Evenings, or if you just can’t get enough of it, please join us for this one-off [...]
Oakland Launches Municipal ID program
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
On February 1st, Oakland will begin to issue municipal IDs. Like San Francisco’s program, these city-issued identification cards will be available to city residents regardless of federal immigration status or housing status, and do not require people to list their sex or gender. Additionally, Oakland’s card is the first of its kind to also function [...]
Chowchilla Freedom Rally: This Saturday
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
CHOWCHILLA FREEDOM RALLY Saturday, January 26, 2013 March at 2PM, Rally begins at 3PM at Valley State Prison. In less than two weeks people from throughout the state will gather in Chowchilla and march from Valley State Prison to Central California Women’s Facility–now the most overcrowded prison in California–to demand an end to this gender [...]
Please join us for our next Monthly Queer/Trans Prisoner Penpal Night & Discussion Group!
Thursday, December 20th, 2012
Wednesday, December 26, 6-8 pm: Every month we will gather and begin the night with a short political education discussion of current issues within the criminalization system/prison industrial complex. This month, CCWP joins us to discuss realignment and the upcoming demonstration being planned in Chowchilla in response to the women’s prison closure and resultant massive overcrowding.
Memorial for Howard Wallace scheduled for January 6
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
Howard Wallace, a longtime organizer who co-founded Pride at Work, died on Nov. 14. He was 76 years old and will be well remembered. There will be a memorial on January 6 at ILWU Local 34 (next to AT&T Park) from 2 to 4 p.m. Dolores Huerta of the United Farm Workers and other major [...]
Monthly Prison Penpal Night & Holiday Card Making Party!!
Monday, November 19th, 2012Wednesday, November 28, 6:00-8:00pm Modern Times Bookstore Collective 2919 24th Street, San Francisco, California 94110 RSVP on Facebook Join HAVOQ’s Prison Abolition & Prisoner Solidarity Workgroup for our November monthly penpal night. We have letters from queer & trans prisoners from around California who are looking for everything from personal to political to romantic exchanges. [...]