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20th March 2017, 20:09
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Hey People!
SB 310 - the Name and Dignity Act for Incarcerated Trans People has a hearing on March 28th in the Senate Public Safety committee and we need your help to get this bill passed!!
Please send an organizational support letter by Tuesday , March 21th for SB 310 - The Name and Dignity Act for Incarcerated Trans People on your organizational letter head. Click here for the template. (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001xHEzIhwzCebEkCUqpB2m71t0o7Nrb5RgvjDKxX Oh3KQVsFRAxov02-_izeLlilqvu7WJOBZvyGQkztz8iFIGelo8ffIuH-GAr9wPJRlPI_0Ek-Ev6PgkEXX20LoCHfPgxS7RRDK1bckmORk8qXGPEGSf_6YPePq_ 4PK7XguI1K6lssq4y3Jw-67He7W2H2lb71-0R0PibMf8MpaIuMgOnpHovwMA5qUxpAoE8NrU2w4qwcSntVZhe w==&c=NkYzX26KdGBzvemvSe-G-jqbSKmy-DUqILbMb0v8zkjQcsF0-IxmEw==&ch=8t9ygPr-Ot_AHv8YigjAtpdwyhD4cLengqsC3gDDdAuWpTkxfZiubw==)
http://wraphome.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/insideIMG_2899.jpg
WRAP is running SB 310, the Name and Dignity Act, in a coalition with the Transgender Gendervariant Intersex Justice Project, St. James Infirmary and the Transgender Law Center and we are getting into high gear demanding dignity, safety and liberation for trans people inside and outside of prison walls. At WRAP, we know that fighting for trans people's rights is a step towards decriminalizing poverty and homelessness as trans people are disproportionately impacted by poverty and homelessness.
SB 310, the Name and Dignity Act, changes the process for trans people in prison who are trying to access a legal name and gender marker change. A gender marker is the letter on your identification documents that currently has the option M or F.
Trans people in prison trying to change their name and gender must get approval from the warden. What this means is that people are either flat-out denied or thrown through so many bureaucratic loops that they give up. In the history of California, there are 3 people who have changed their name and genders while incarcerated. 2 of those were a result of a lawsuit.
SB 310, the Name and Dignity Act, would change the process to be more similar to the process for trans people on the outside - through the superior court and taking the decision out of the hands of wardens. To apply to the superior court you need to fill out 7 or 8 forms and include a doctors note - it takes about 3 months to a year. It's up to the courts to decide whether or not your name and gender marker change are granted.
This is important for trans people's safety, dignity and liberation for two main reasons.
This is a re-entry issue. Trans people who are spat out of the prison system with identification documents that don't match their gender presentation have immense challenges trying to access their basic needs like housing, employment, healthcare and government subsides. Often when trans people show IDs that don't match their gender presentation they are denied services, harassed and sometimes assaulted. Having this process cleared up while a person is in custody makes it much easier to access these services when they are released.
Changing a person's name and gender while incarcerated would force the prison system to respect that person's name. Currently, if you are trans and your legal name is something other then what you use - the guards, other prisoners and everyone in CDCR will call you by your legal name. Trans people in prison already face immense daily physically, emotional, sexual and spiritual violence. Being misnamed and misgendered is also an act of violence. Forcing the prison system to respect the dignity of trans people's names provides a moment of relief through these oppressive conditions. This bill would currently not effect housing for trans prisoners as that is currently based on a person's genitalia.
If you have questions you can send them to [email protected]
Oregon Right to Rest Act!
Oregon organizers are so excited that HB 2215, the Oregon Right to Rest Act is moving this year. We are gearing up for our first hearing in the Judiciary committee but we need your help!
Oregon state legislators Piluso, Dembrow, Greenlick, Nosse, Power, Hernandez and Frederick will be championing HB 2215 - The Oregon Right2Rest Act - for the second year. The Right2Rest Act is stronger, clearer, and more powerful! If HB 2215 passes this year - it will force the state of Oregon to abandon its practices of criminalizing homeless people for engaging in basic life-sustaining activities like sitting, lying, sleeping, resting and eating in public. The criminalization of rest must end if we are ever to turn the tide on our homelessness crisis.
You can read the full bill language here (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001xHEzIhwzCebEkCUqpB2m71t0o7Nrb5RgvjDKxX Oh3KQVsFRAxov024u09D07Miqsd8zCF8OKmvayTyTxYUDk4dNM oKdy-No9Ssbg3j24pwzwVlcHXRlOz4U207E17NOFCxmZIF1J7wxh2ls WRIogN1YxVeHEons6-Y8aJTjic_qfmhIj16_9Ud4LID_Atxv1GMTige0sHQJBFqapbio o2AgAXKdZOd7iMqq6hAuPAAw=&c=NkYzX26KdGBzvemvSe-G-jqbSKmy-DUqILbMb0v8zkjQcsF0-IxmEw==&ch=8t9ygPr-Ot_AHv8YigjAtpdwyhD4cLengqsC3gDDdAuWpTkxfZiubw==) and you can read the main talking points here.
Follow These 2 Easy Steps to TAKE ACTION!
1) Send a letter of organizational support!
• Click here for a sample letter. (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001xHEzIhwzCebEkCUqpB2m71t0o7Nrb5RgvjDKxX Oh3KQVsFRAxov024u09D07MiqsLeHJj4UHNZBqKaIG94BTJz9G yPBoroxwiFut7AsbJAcpG85SJQGilhpFFee6ngFidoF0Y-MHizmmvoVE6GtaYJhusQWsqZ2QRyaUdTF2bm7XMn6e-6zp8dQu-1x-tB-VNGRcDDBPI2P1zkyF_lR4SQ253Xbimb2dQuH7mszR5AS_UGeQY rx2ac6FG9EYjEPUxqyQkzcvUo6DwJDe6qsI--NMjgqUAlDmFzjdjL2FAJY=&c=NkYzX26KdGBzvemvSe-G-jqbSKmy-DUqILbMb0v8zkjQcsF0-IxmEw==&ch=8t9ygPr-Ot_AHv8YigjAtpdwyhD4cLengqsC3gDDdAuWpTkxfZiubw==)
• Please send your letter by Tuesday, March 28th on organizational letterhead, to: [email protected] and [email protected]
2) Email and call the members of the House Judiciary Committee by Friday, March 10th and urge them to support HB 2215, the Oregon Right2Rest Act
• Committee Chair, Jeff Barker: (503) 986-1428 [email protected]
• Committee Vice-Chair, Jenniffer Williamson: (503) 986-1436
[email protected]
• Mitch Greenlick: (503) 986-1433 [email protected]
• Ann Lininger: (503) 986-1438 [email protected]
• Andy Olson: (503) 986-1415 [email protected]
• Bill Post: (503) 986-1425 [email protected]
• Sherrie Sprenger: (503) 986-1417 [email protected]
• Chris Gorsek: (503) 986-1449 [email protected]
• Tawna Sanchez: (503) 986-1443 [email protected]
• Duane Stark: (503) 986-1404 [email protected]
• Rich Vial: (503) 986-1426 [email protected]
Sample Script:
My name is ________ and I am calling to urge you to vote YES on the Right To Rest Act. You will be hearing HB 2215: Oregon Right To Rest Act in the Assembly Judiciary Committee. This bill provides critical civil rights protections to ALL Oregonians to ensure that every Oregonians is able to meet the biological need of rest. The practice of criminalizing poor and homeless people for engaging in basic life-sustaining activities like eating, sleeping, resting, lying and sleeping is unjust, cruel and entrenches people in homelessness. HB 2215 will allow homeless people more time and energy to access services, search for employment and apply for housing that would otherwise be spent responding to police harassment, tickets, courts and jail time. Please vote YES on Hb 2215: the Oregon Right To Rest Act!
We ask you to stand us in ensuring that we can all have our right to rest!
https://mlsvc01-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/29254e99301/c4ad6148-fe0f-4ac5-a7d2-f6f6aa6d1b05.jpg?ver=1487892652000 (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001xHEzIhwzCebEkCUqpB2m71t0o7Nrb5RgvjDKxX Oh3KQVsFRAxov024u09D07MiqsYLp2YjLiDCLI5ixV8K0GCsGk mptMC5dY4YLRswfFzJmIowKfKiuI60j3pTfHw2rEuoGlg7xaAr raO1tLKumEb0vR9P78RosyL19Qx-6_ucV4ay873IhBFtaJ6IyCv0JPq056SEkcRlarEcSwSokf8-dwtYhrfQzigilduAQOEX3HjCVw3RN8_C70eAdVCDJz0Vi2Uf8M 3WHIeNQl622k-WP0lJIrsCSKw-Z0EqnR3bU=&c=NkYzX26KdGBzvemvSe-G-jqbSKmy-DUqILbMb0v8zkjQcsF0-IxmEw==&ch=8t9ygPr-Ot_AHv8YigjAtpdwyhD4cLengqsC3gDDdAuWpTkxfZiubw==)
Act! Engage!
Donate Now!
Share With Friends
Visit Our Website!
Visit Our Facebook!
WRAP Members
Coalition on Homelessness
San Francisco
Denver Homeless Out Loud
Los Angeles Community
Action Network
Right 2 Survive
Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee
Sisters Of
The Road
St. Mary's Center
Street Roots
Street Spirit
#Right2Rest is coming to y’all, WOO!
WRAP's Artwork
Sisters Of The Road with Right 2 Dream Too and Balance Media.
We are so excited to share the trailer for "On the Ground"
WRAP'S 10th Anniversary of Housekeys Not Handcuffs!
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Hey People!
SB 310 - the Name and Dignity Act for Incarcerated Trans People has a hearing on March 28th in the Senate Public Safety committee and we need your help to get this bill passed!!
Please send an organizational support letter by Tuesday , March 21th for SB 310 - The Name and Dignity Act for Incarcerated Trans People on your organizational letter head. Click here for the template. (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001xHEzIhwzCebEkCUqpB2m71t0o7Nrb5RgvjDKxX Oh3KQVsFRAxov02-_izeLlilqvu7WJOBZvyGQkztz8iFIGelo8ffIuH-GAr9wPJRlPI_0Ek-Ev6PgkEXX20LoCHfPgxS7RRDK1bckmORk8qXGPEGSf_6YPePq_ 4PK7XguI1K6lssq4y3Jw-67He7W2H2lb71-0R0PibMf8MpaIuMgOnpHovwMA5qUxpAoE8NrU2w4qwcSntVZhe w==&c=NkYzX26KdGBzvemvSe-G-jqbSKmy-DUqILbMb0v8zkjQcsF0-IxmEw==&ch=8t9ygPr-Ot_AHv8YigjAtpdwyhD4cLengqsC3gDDdAuWpTkxfZiubw==)
http://wraphome.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/insideIMG_2899.jpg
WRAP is running SB 310, the Name and Dignity Act, in a coalition with the Transgender Gendervariant Intersex Justice Project, St. James Infirmary and the Transgender Law Center and we are getting into high gear demanding dignity, safety and liberation for trans people inside and outside of prison walls. At WRAP, we know that fighting for trans people's rights is a step towards decriminalizing poverty and homelessness as trans people are disproportionately impacted by poverty and homelessness.
SB 310, the Name and Dignity Act, changes the process for trans people in prison who are trying to access a legal name and gender marker change. A gender marker is the letter on your identification documents that currently has the option M or F.
Trans people in prison trying to change their name and gender must get approval from the warden. What this means is that people are either flat-out denied or thrown through so many bureaucratic loops that they give up. In the history of California, there are 3 people who have changed their name and genders while incarcerated. 2 of those were a result of a lawsuit.
SB 310, the Name and Dignity Act, would change the process to be more similar to the process for trans people on the outside - through the superior court and taking the decision out of the hands of wardens. To apply to the superior court you need to fill out 7 or 8 forms and include a doctors note - it takes about 3 months to a year. It's up to the courts to decide whether or not your name and gender marker change are granted.
This is important for trans people's safety, dignity and liberation for two main reasons.
This is a re-entry issue. Trans people who are spat out of the prison system with identification documents that don't match their gender presentation have immense challenges trying to access their basic needs like housing, employment, healthcare and government subsides. Often when trans people show IDs that don't match their gender presentation they are denied services, harassed and sometimes assaulted. Having this process cleared up while a person is in custody makes it much easier to access these services when they are released.
Changing a person's name and gender while incarcerated would force the prison system to respect that person's name. Currently, if you are trans and your legal name is something other then what you use - the guards, other prisoners and everyone in CDCR will call you by your legal name. Trans people in prison already face immense daily physically, emotional, sexual and spiritual violence. Being misnamed and misgendered is also an act of violence. Forcing the prison system to respect the dignity of trans people's names provides a moment of relief through these oppressive conditions. This bill would currently not effect housing for trans prisoners as that is currently based on a person's genitalia.
If you have questions you can send them to [email protected]
Oregon Right to Rest Act!
Oregon organizers are so excited that HB 2215, the Oregon Right to Rest Act is moving this year. We are gearing up for our first hearing in the Judiciary committee but we need your help!
Oregon state legislators Piluso, Dembrow, Greenlick, Nosse, Power, Hernandez and Frederick will be championing HB 2215 - The Oregon Right2Rest Act - for the second year. The Right2Rest Act is stronger, clearer, and more powerful! If HB 2215 passes this year - it will force the state of Oregon to abandon its practices of criminalizing homeless people for engaging in basic life-sustaining activities like sitting, lying, sleeping, resting and eating in public. The criminalization of rest must end if we are ever to turn the tide on our homelessness crisis.
You can read the full bill language here (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001xHEzIhwzCebEkCUqpB2m71t0o7Nrb5RgvjDKxX Oh3KQVsFRAxov024u09D07Miqsd8zCF8OKmvayTyTxYUDk4dNM oKdy-No9Ssbg3j24pwzwVlcHXRlOz4U207E17NOFCxmZIF1J7wxh2ls WRIogN1YxVeHEons6-Y8aJTjic_qfmhIj16_9Ud4LID_Atxv1GMTige0sHQJBFqapbio o2AgAXKdZOd7iMqq6hAuPAAw=&c=NkYzX26KdGBzvemvSe-G-jqbSKmy-DUqILbMb0v8zkjQcsF0-IxmEw==&ch=8t9ygPr-Ot_AHv8YigjAtpdwyhD4cLengqsC3gDDdAuWpTkxfZiubw==) and you can read the main talking points here.
Follow These 2 Easy Steps to TAKE ACTION!
1) Send a letter of organizational support!
• Click here for a sample letter. (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001xHEzIhwzCebEkCUqpB2m71t0o7Nrb5RgvjDKxX Oh3KQVsFRAxov024u09D07MiqsLeHJj4UHNZBqKaIG94BTJz9G yPBoroxwiFut7AsbJAcpG85SJQGilhpFFee6ngFidoF0Y-MHizmmvoVE6GtaYJhusQWsqZ2QRyaUdTF2bm7XMn6e-6zp8dQu-1x-tB-VNGRcDDBPI2P1zkyF_lR4SQ253Xbimb2dQuH7mszR5AS_UGeQY rx2ac6FG9EYjEPUxqyQkzcvUo6DwJDe6qsI--NMjgqUAlDmFzjdjL2FAJY=&c=NkYzX26KdGBzvemvSe-G-jqbSKmy-DUqILbMb0v8zkjQcsF0-IxmEw==&ch=8t9ygPr-Ot_AHv8YigjAtpdwyhD4cLengqsC3gDDdAuWpTkxfZiubw==)
• Please send your letter by Tuesday, March 28th on organizational letterhead, to: [email protected] and [email protected]
2) Email and call the members of the House Judiciary Committee by Friday, March 10th and urge them to support HB 2215, the Oregon Right2Rest Act
• Committee Chair, Jeff Barker: (503) 986-1428 [email protected]
• Committee Vice-Chair, Jenniffer Williamson: (503) 986-1436
[email protected]
• Mitch Greenlick: (503) 986-1433 [email protected]
• Ann Lininger: (503) 986-1438 [email protected]
• Andy Olson: (503) 986-1415 [email protected]
• Bill Post: (503) 986-1425 [email protected]
• Sherrie Sprenger: (503) 986-1417 [email protected]
• Chris Gorsek: (503) 986-1449 [email protected]
• Tawna Sanchez: (503) 986-1443 [email protected]
• Duane Stark: (503) 986-1404 [email protected]
• Rich Vial: (503) 986-1426 [email protected]
Sample Script:
My name is ________ and I am calling to urge you to vote YES on the Right To Rest Act. You will be hearing HB 2215: Oregon Right To Rest Act in the Assembly Judiciary Committee. This bill provides critical civil rights protections to ALL Oregonians to ensure that every Oregonians is able to meet the biological need of rest. The practice of criminalizing poor and homeless people for engaging in basic life-sustaining activities like eating, sleeping, resting, lying and sleeping is unjust, cruel and entrenches people in homelessness. HB 2215 will allow homeless people more time and energy to access services, search for employment and apply for housing that would otherwise be spent responding to police harassment, tickets, courts and jail time. Please vote YES on Hb 2215: the Oregon Right To Rest Act!
We ask you to stand us in ensuring that we can all have our right to rest!
https://mlsvc01-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/29254e99301/c4ad6148-fe0f-4ac5-a7d2-f6f6aa6d1b05.jpg?ver=1487892652000 (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001xHEzIhwzCebEkCUqpB2m71t0o7Nrb5RgvjDKxX Oh3KQVsFRAxov024u09D07MiqsYLp2YjLiDCLI5ixV8K0GCsGk mptMC5dY4YLRswfFzJmIowKfKiuI60j3pTfHw2rEuoGlg7xaAr raO1tLKumEb0vR9P78RosyL19Qx-6_ucV4ay873IhBFtaJ6IyCv0JPq056SEkcRlarEcSwSokf8-dwtYhrfQzigilduAQOEX3HjCVw3RN8_C70eAdVCDJz0Vi2Uf8M 3WHIeNQl622k-WP0lJIrsCSKw-Z0EqnR3bU=&c=NkYzX26KdGBzvemvSe-G-jqbSKmy-DUqILbMb0v8zkjQcsF0-IxmEw==&ch=8t9ygPr-Ot_AHv8YigjAtpdwyhD4cLengqsC3gDDdAuWpTkxfZiubw==)
Act! Engage!
Donate Now!
Share With Friends
Visit Our Website!
Visit Our Facebook!
WRAP Members
Coalition on Homelessness
San Francisco
Denver Homeless Out Loud
Los Angeles Community
Action Network
Right 2 Survive
Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee
Sisters Of
The Road
St. Mary's Center
Street Roots
Street Spirit
#Right2Rest is coming to y’all, WOO!
WRAP's Artwork
Sisters Of The Road with Right 2 Dream Too and Balance Media.
We are so excited to share the trailer for "On the Ground"
WRAP'S 10th Anniversary of Housekeys Not Handcuffs!
Western Regional Advocacy Project, 2940 16th Street, Suite 200-2, San Francisco, CA 94103
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