Converging Worlds

Converging Worlds Converging Worlds is an organization that advocates against racism in the criminal justice system.

Converging Worlds is a student organization which was created to raise awareness about racial injustice in our court and carceral systems, connecting the Williams student body to incarcerated people. The United States of America currently incarcerates more of its citizens than any other country in the world, specifically targeting people with already marginalized identities (ethnic and racial mino

rities, the mentally ill, those who are unemployed and/or impoverished, and people from the LGBTQIA community). Through penpal relationships with currently incarcerated people, a restorative justice mentorship program in Pittsfield Public Schools, and a speaker series which has brought spoken word poets like Christopher Soto and social activists like Shaun King to campus, Converging Worlds seeks to end the school-to-prison pipeline and think critically about alternatives to our current carceral state.

09/11/2021

Check out this powerful cover of our forthcoming book When You Hear Me (You Hear Us)!

This artwork, created by acclaimed social justice artist and organizer Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio, reflects the inter-connected voices that are uniquely brought into conversation within this book. It's Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop most ambitious project yet, and we can't wait for you to read it. The book officially releases October 5th, but we're launching pre-sales today!

When You Hear Me (You Hear Us) is an anthology of poetry and personal stories centering the voices of those directly impacted by the incarceration of young people in the United States. Compiled by Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop, this rich collection includes firsthand accounts from both the young people charged and incarcerated in the adult criminal legal system and from the community at large: the mothers, the loved ones, the correctional staff, public defenders, prosecutors, and others harmed and left with unhealed trauma.

Order your copy now at a discounted pre-sale price of $12.99!

https://www.shoutmousepress.org/bookstore/when-you-hear-me

08/12/2020

We have someone on the inside looking for a long term pen pal. His name is Torrance Johnson. He reps his Afro Columbian heritage, is ridiculously funny, loves to listen to and write his own music, and has an overall positive energy and outlook on life! If you’re interested in committing to a pen pal relationship with him, please comment below and I’ll message you his mailing address. This is a really tough time for everybody and it can be refreshing/rejuvenating to reconnect with our shared humanity through writing!

Release them now. This pandemic is illustrating what’s always been true: that prisons keep the public less safe, not mor...
03/20/2020

Release them now. This pandemic is illustrating what’s always been true: that prisons keep the public less safe, not more safe.

Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins plans to release inmates who may be vulnerable to coronavirus in an effort to public the incarcerated and the public, her office said on Thursday.

09/30/2019

Member of the radical Philadelphia-based group Move 9, sentenced after violent confrontation with police in 1978, reunited with wife Debbie Africa and son Mike Jr

07/18/2019

Storycatchers helps justice-involved youth find their voices and resolve old traumas by making them the stars of the show.

06/29/2019
The work of prison abolition doesn’t stop over the summer. Stay in tune w/ what you can do by checking out the FANG Coll...
06/24/2019

The work of prison abolition doesn’t stop over the summer. Stay in tune w/ what you can do by checking out the FANG Collective’s Week of Action to The first action can be done from ANYWHERE so no matter your home state/country you can dial in and demand justice.

Our Week of Action to is kicking off right now, their first target is UMB Bank.

Join us in calling on UMB—specifically their CEO Mariner Kemper—to divest from the Wyatt Detention Center in Central Falls, RI. UMB Bank is profiting from prisons, ICE contracts and tearing families apart. UMB even sued the Central Falls City Council and forced them to continue to hold people detained by ICE at the Wyatt facility.

Please contact UMB Bank and CEO Mariner Kemper and demand that they divest from Wyatt and other prisons, end their lawsuit against Central Falls, and end their support of ICE:

CALL ---> CEO Mariner Kempner’s office number: 303-839-2251, and UMB’s main office number: 816-860-7000
EMAIL ---> CEO Mariner Kempner: [email protected]
TWEET ---> At and

For Tweets to share and more info, please check out FANG’s twitter account:

More info about UMB's lawsuit that forced the Wyatt to continue to detain people for ICE: https://upriseri.com/2019-04-10-wyatt-lawsuit/

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This social media storm is part of our Week of Action to . This Week of Action is being called because on June 30th all 80 of ICE's 287(g) agreements expire. These allow for local law enforcement to carry out duties of ICE officers. Now is the time to take action to make sure that these agencies don't renew these agreements.

IGSA agreements are signed between ICE and state and local prisons. According to ICE, 67% of their detainees are held at facilities with IGSA agreements. ICE's entire operation of detention and deportation is made possible by the IGSA program.

The full call to action and targets can be found at: ShutDownICEnow.org

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