Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity (MAMAS) is a collective conducting the labor of mothering among BIPOC communities. It is their belief that Black and Brown mamas laboring on the frontlines of families and communities targeted by state police are among the most powerful forces of revolutionary change.
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Mothers of incarcerated people, joined by other prisoners’ rights advocates, stand in front of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s home in Lincoln Park on Friday morning, They want the governor to halt construction of the Illinois Youth Center and allow contact visits in Illinois prisons tor resume.
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Against a backdrop of bright pink tulips, protesters stood outside Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s Gold Coast home on Friday with flowers, signs and a painted piece of cardboard that read, “Dear J.B., on this Mother’s Day, set our loved ones free.”
That oversized Mother’s Day card included demands that Pritzker sign clemency petitions to for prisoners they say have been wrongfully incarcerated and that he stop construction of a new youth prison at the Lincoln Developmental Center.
My Child Is Incarcerated. One Second in This Unjust System Is Too Much.
Esther and Rosendo Hernández visit with their son Juan Hernández at Lawrence Correctional Center in 2020 right before the pandemic when the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down visits.
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For several years, I have met weekly with a remarkable group of mothers and one father who, like me, are fighting for the release of their adult children from Chicago-area prisons. We call ourselves the Mothers of the Kidnapped. My new sisters and brother, all in a group no parent wants to join, speak powerfully to the loss of their children and to the agony of being caught up in a police and trial process that actively works against us and the supposed rights of our children to access a transparent and even-handed legal system.