UPCOMING EVENTS

Involved with a local abolitionist event that you’d like us to share? Email decarceratewmassfundraising@gmail.com with the name, date, and time of your event with a short description and contact information.


Re-Entry Kit Packing + CORI Sealing Training
Apr
13

Re-Entry Kit Packing + CORI Sealing Training

Join us on Sunday, April 13, at 3:00pm at the Finders Collective in Turners Falls, to help pack re-entry kits and learn about CORI sealing!

We would love your help with packing re-entry kits for the people whom we bail out. Each kit comes with a backpack, snacks, personal hygiene products, writing materials, and more! We would also be very grateful for donations of these supplies. If you’d like to make a donation, please add your information to this spreadsheet.

We’re also pairing packing with a know-your-rights training about CORI background check sealing, facilitated by Community Legal Aid.

Masks are required and provided. 😷 We ask that you please stay home if you're feeling unwell (and we hope you feel better soon!).

RSVP (helpful but not required) here ↓

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Dec
14
to Dec 15

Participatory Defense Training

  • Northampton Center for the Arts (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

A two day training facilitated by Silicon Valley De-Bug on participatory defense, a community organizing model for people facing charges, their families, and communities to impact the outcome of cases and transform the landscape of power in the court system.

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May Bail Fund Book Club: “Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World” by  Dorothy Roberts
May
29

May Bail Fund Book Club: “Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World” by Dorothy Roberts

Join the Decarcerate Western Mass Bailout Project in reading and discussing “Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World” by Dorothy Roberts

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Solidarity Benefit Show
Mar
23

Solidarity Benefit Show

Via 10 Forward:

Bring your rage, your grief, your dollars, and your collaborative spirit to a benefit show for the Defend the Atlanta Forest/Stop Cop City Bail Fund and E-Sims for Gaza. We will have educational materials, an incredible lineup to help you dance through the darkness, and plenty of opportunities to connect with liberation-minded friends

SCOTIA on Soundcloud

NITU @niiitu_ on IG

BIPRODUCT on Soundcloud

BITCRUSHR on Soundcloud

SPACE CAMP on Bandcamp

JOI AVERY @joy_avery on IG

MADEL on Soundcloud

Doors @ 6 / Show @ 7 / 18+ / $10-$20 Donation

Masks Appreciated. Elevator Access available through Mesa Verde’s foyer.

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Film Screening & Discussion: “Scheherazade’s Diary”
Mar
13

Film Screening & Discussion: “Scheherazade’s Diary”

The UMass Prison Education Initiative is organizing a film screening and discussion of "Scheherazade's Diary" with film director Zeina Daccache in partnership with the Department of WGSS and the Decarcerate Western Mass Bailout Project. The film, "Scheherazade’s Diary" (2013), features a theater production that was created and performed by women incarcerated in Baabda Prison in Lebanon.

Screening | 2:30-4pm

Q&A with the director | 4-5pm

Remote option available for registered attendees. Click here to register.

 
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Community Event: Legal Observers Virtual Training with the National Lawyers Guild
Mar
9

Community Event: Legal Observers Virtual Training with the National Lawyers Guild

National Lawyers Guild is hosting a virtual training for Legal Observers (LO) on March 9, 2024 at 5pm ET, hosted by Elliot Oberholtzer, a National Lawyers Guild attorney. LO’s particular role in an action is to observe and record the actions of police: their presence serves as deescalation and as protection against police violence. Anyone can be an LO; you do not need to be a lawyer or legal worker in your daily life!

Complete the form and sign up using this link or the button below.

A few notes about the form:

The form serves two purposes: 1) to collect some information from you to screen for eligibility to attend the training, and 2) to ensure that the National Lawyers Guild has the necessary background info on file if/when you begin to operate as a Legal Observer.

The form has 12 questions and should take about 8 minutes to fill out. Once you submit your form, you'll receive an email with a confidentiality agreement attached: please fill out and sign that agreement and return it to elliot.oberholtzer@gmail.com.

Once the screening is complete and we have your confidentiality agreement on file, you will receive the Zoom link to the training via email.

 
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