Hi!

Since June 2, Denver DSA has been outside Denver City Jail offering care and support to recently release people. It's been a privilege to greet people as they are freed from our city's cages and to give them food, snacks, cigarettes, a ride home, a clean mask, hygienic items, and everything in between. And our work hasn't gone unnoticed! Check out Elisabeth Epps, co-founder of Colorado Freedom Fund and major proponent of SB20-217, giving us a shoutout!

This work is critical. We need to keep it going! We're working hard everyday not only to receive folks with community care, but also to make our jail support effort more streamlined, efficient, and sustainable!

TAKE ACTION NOW:

Fill out this form to get involved with our efforts- including financial support, turn-out support, and on the ground support. This is a great option especially for people who can't physically be in front of the jail with us. We need folks to help us on the admin side as much as we need folks at our base camp.

Sign up for a shift here! Our schedule is no longer-view only so you can sign up for any and all shifts you'd like. We REALLY need people to sign up for shifts (they're only 2 hours each!), and now we've made it so that you can sign up weeks in advance.

Check out our Jail Support FAQ document to learn more about the work that we're doing.

Donate via Venmo (@Ellie-Kaylee) or Paypal (https://www.paypal.me/liamkx) so that we can continue to buy food, water, hygiene packs, bus tickets, and more for folks who need it. Thanks to YOUR generous donations so far we were able to pay for one woman to go back to her family in Las Vegas and stay the night in a hotel so that she could take the safest route home. Y'all did that! And we need you to keep doing it!

It is amazing that so many new people are talking about abolition and defunding the police more and more with every passing day. While it is true that defunding the police means doing the work of taking resources and power away from a violent and oppressive institution that predominantly harms Black and brown people, a critically important component of abolitionist work is not only destroying those punitive and destructive systems, but investing in and strengthening community-based networks, services, and resources that provide genuine safety and care.

Join us at jail support as we build - day by day with smiles, listening ears, material goods, and more - a community resource that values care and solidarity over punishment and violence.

A better world is possible and we're building it everyday. I'm grateful to be in community with you all, and I'm honored that we're growing our community to include so many people especially those who have been recently released.

En solidaridad,

Ellie Rodriguez

813.373.0167

[email protected]

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