After viewing part of the film, we brainstormed actions we can take, including:

Developing skills and resources:

• Join a free 10-week study group in Brattleboro VT, hosted by Lost River Racial Justice (registration is now closed for the group)
• People of all races come together in solidarity to get to know one another 
• Bishop Desmond Tutu’s Forgiveness Project
• Read Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendri 

Working for system change:

• Equal Justice Initiative and Just Mercy, a book by Brian Stevenson, on ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment
• Real Cost of Prisons Project
• Organize to make it legal for people currently and formerly incarcerated to vote
• Many people are incarcerated just because they cannot afford bail:  National Bail Out/No More Money Bail
• Poor People’s Campaign, a national call for a moral revival
• Swing Left, Take Back The House (locally, group is forming in Amherst MA), and other work on mid-term elections
• You may want to consider civil disobedience. If you do, prepare yourself by taking a nonviolence training. For local trainings, see The Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership

Offering personal support:

• Experienced mothers offer personal support to incarcerated mothers and mothers-to-be
• Visit people who are incarcerated
• Write letters to people who are incarcerated
• Donate to or volunteer with a group that sends books to people who are incarcerated. Our local group is Great Falls Books Through Bars.