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Until We Are All Free Movement

Until We Are All Free is a human rights

organization led by formerly

incarcerated criminal justice experts.

We focus on building capital, resources

and support to provide pathways to

civic and economic liberation for

individuals disenfranchised by mass incarceration.

Why Us?

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Photo Credits: Emily

Baxter, We Are All

Criminals

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Kevin’s Video

People arethe resource…

Until We Are All Free is

OUR solution,

…to healing from and ending Mass

Incarceration

The Vision for the Until We Are All Free

Movement…

• We understand that the most valuable resource on earth is our people, and we honor the gifts, talents, and full lives of each person in our communities by investing in the internal capital of our people and by creating spaces and pathways for each of us toward freedom. Our Vision is to see all of us with the space and resources we need to restore our humanity and return to our communities as valued neighbors, until we are all free.

The Philosophy for how we work with

humans…

• We believe the only pathway to liberation is through holistic, trauma-informed relationships with the individuals we serve. Our foundational values are centered in the power of the collective, healing, community, integrity, joy, culture, individuality, humility and dedication. We seek out the expertise of people who have first-hand experience with human rights violations such as Mass Incarceration and provide them with the space and resources they need to restore their humanity and return to our communities as valued neighbors and invaluable partners in our collective liberation in the fight for freedom.

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Core Programs

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• Pre-Release, Continuous until

release

• Weekly work sessions via

phone with a monthly

Educational budget to lead

from the inside while being

connected to the larger

community.

• Other Benefits: Reentry

Savings Account (monthly

contribution from program start

to release), Monthly

communication funds & basic

essential funds.

***Individuals shouldn’t have to

choose between going without basic

essentials or talking to family &

staying connected.

Family and community ARE basic

essentials

• Post-release, 2 month breathe

and launching pad

• Day of Release: Welcome Home

Kit + clothing/shoes funds + The

reentry savings account funds.

• First 60 Days Home: Students

receive a project stipend to

work collectively on various

justice related projects while

they identify personal long-term

goals. As our students begin to

identify their own skills and

pathways, UWAAF Movement

covers the costs associated

with business startups,

supplies, and/or general

launch costs based on the

individual's goals.

• Over 2-3 months, students receive 8

individual and collective sessions

focused exclusively on learning the

skills in the areas each student feels

most unprepared. The sessions may

focus, on things such as-

technology & internet,

professional development, social

and relational development, family

reunification, balance & self care,

community organizing and leading.

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Freedom

Campaigns

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Ambassador

Onboarding

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Frontline

Support

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Internal

Investment

• Post-Conviction legal navigation

support- Compile all case

information from the incarcerated

individual and their family, and

prepare the individual's case for

commutation, Wrongful Conviction

Review, or Pardon process.

• While in process, the navigators also

create a social platform for each

individual to solicit support from the

community as they get closer to the

pardon board or ready to be handed off to an appellate attorney

Collective Community

Justice Work

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This is the work that brings out the

deepest parts of ourselves, the

work that leads to a Revolution.

UWAAF and our recently released

community members are collectively

creating and publishing a human based

reentry handbook for our brothers and

sisters who are yet to come home.

Through a compilation of reentry stories

and experiences written collectively by

the individuals who have been through

reentry, our hope is that this handbook

gives individuals coming out of

incarceration the wisdom and pathway

to success, although and in spite of, the

unexpected challenges that come while

navigating through the reentry process.

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To support scholars of the Prison-to-Law

Pipeline, we are developing a law firm and

a reentry clinic—the connective tissue of

which is frontline resources and investment

from Until We Are All Free—that will

employ and support Pipeline graduates

while undertaking impact litigation that is

central to our legal revolution.

THE LEGAL REVOLUTION

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Legal Revolution Video

How does this solution

correlate with victimization

and harm?

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Our men and women coming home are still coming home as fathers,

mothers, aunties, uncles, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters…

We are setting their children up for a vulnerable pathway , a pathway

that is likely to lead towards victimization

…When kids have their

parents back, we can begin to

disrupt the cycles of

incarceration, oppression,

and violence…

This is what human healing

looks like…

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UWAAF Videos- Kahlee, Noelle, Antonio

Thank You! Questions?

You can find us at www.UWAAF.orgKevin@uwaaf.com

Kahlee@uwaaf.com

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