PURCHASE AND SHARE
We are partnering with Video Project to help It's Criminal reach viewers across the United States. Please contact Video Project if you'd like to purchase an educational copy of the film: https://www.videoproject.com/Its-Criminal.html
SPONSOR A SCREENING
If you'd like to sponsor a screening of It's Criminal to help raise awareness about inequalities in the justice system and the United States, please contact Video Project or you can contact the film team at itiscriminal@gmail.com. It's Criminal works well for college campuses, retirement communities, film festivals, high schools, movie theaters and for a wide variety of non-profit organizations. We're happy to work with you to make a screening work: itiscriminal@gmail.com
DONATE TO THE FILM FUND
This helps support our screening It's Criminal around the country and the world. You can make a tax deductible contribution at: https://filmmakerscollab.org/films/its-criminal/
HELP PASS THE DIGNITY FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN ACT
Introduced by Senators Warren, Harris, Booker and Durbin, this is a fantastic act. Please contact your Congressional Representatives and ask them to support it! LEARN MORE about the Act & SIGN A PETITION to help pass the Act.
We also highly recommend checking out: Dignity Campaign @ #Cut50
COLLABORATE WITH ORGANIZATIONS THAT USE ARTS TO ADVOCATE FOR EQUAL JUSTICE
Telling My Story: Founded by Pati Hernandez, one of the professors featured in It's Criminal, Telling My Story is a non-profit organization that breaks down walls between socially isolated individuals and their communities using theater as a medium for social reflection and relationship building. Their programs develop self-awareness and communication skills with populations behind visible and invisible social walls — such as those created by incarceration, addiction, and poverty. Through writing and performing, people behind walls are empowered to reclaim their own voices and strengths. LEARN MORE
The Prison Arts Coalition: The Prison Arts Coalition (PAC) is an independent space and national network providing information and resources for people creating art in and around the American prison system. This is a good resource to find programs in your area that use arts in correctional facilities, where you may be able to volunteer. LEARN MORE
The Real Cost of Prison Project: The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice activists, artists, researchers and women and men directly experiencing the impact of mass criminalization who are working to end the carceral state. This is a great resource for learning more about incarceration issues and they also have a great list of organizations for Activism and Organizing. LEARN MORE
JOIN A CAMPAIGN FOR EQUAL JUSTICE
Check out The Bail Fund Project: https://bailproject.org/
Work with Ban The Box: https://bantheboxcampaign.org/
Learn about your legislators and Vote Smart Justice: https://www.votesmartjustice.org/
LEARN MORE ABOUT INCARCERATION ISSUES
NPR PODCAST: This American War on Drugs LISTEN
VIDEO: Grace Lee Boggs and Immanuel Wallerstein, interview at the 2nd US Social Forum WATCH
READ:
The Real Cost of Prisons Comix by Lois Ahrens and Craig Gilmore
A Question of Class by Dorothy Allison
The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit by Bruce K. Alexander
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the twenty-first Century by Grace Lee Boggs
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
Challenging the Prison Industrial Complex: Activism, Arts & Educational Alternatives by Stephen John Harnett
Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration? by Tara Herivel and Paul Wright
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Mate
White Privilege and Male Privilege by Peggy McIntosh