AMISTAD MOVEMENT POWER

What they do

BASE POWER MEETINGS: AMP CO-HOSTED TWO MEETINGS, HELD PRIOR to THE PRIMARY and GENERAL ELECTIONS, TARGETED TOWARDS OUR FORMERLY INCARCERATED and FAMILY MEMBER BASE to HEAR FROM CANDIDATES RUNNING for ATTORNEY GENERAL, STATE REPRESENTATIVE and STATE SENATE, AS WELL AS PROGRESSIVE ELECTED OFFICIALS. MEMBERS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY to ENGAGE WITH CANDIDATES and ELECTED OFFICIALS ABOUT THEIR RECORD and POSITIONS ON MASS INCARCERATION and SECOND CHANCES. ADDITIONALLY, WE CO-HOSTED A POST-ELECTION DEBRIEF MASS MEETING to DISCUSS HOW THE ELECTION RESULTS IMPACTED THE ANTI-MASS INCARCERATION MOVEMENT and to ENCOURAGE OUR BASE to CONTINUE to BE INVOLVED IN STATE and LOCAL ADVOCACY. VOLUNTEER CANVASSING PROGRAM: AMP HELPED to COORDINATE A BASE of VOLUNTEERS WHO ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE DIRECTLY IMPACTED or DEEPLY CARE ABOUT MASS INCARCERATION IN PENNSYLVANIA. THESE VOLUNTEERS PARTICIPATED IN CANVASSING IN THE WEST PHILADELPHIA and GERMANTOWN NEIGHBORHOODS of PHILADELPHIA ON THE WEEKENDS LEADING UP to THE