We don’t just distribute news, we care about our readers deeply. SawariMedia curates revolutionary strategies to engage our incarcerated subscribers with outside groups in a variety of ways. We continually promote opportunities take action.
Seeing Through the Bars SawariMedia produced a series of videos highlighting incarcerated Right2Vote Readers experiences in Michigan’s Gus Harrison and Kinross prisons during the initial year of the covid pandemic. This project partnered select prisoners with scholars from Kalamazoo College and New York University in order to illustrate people’s experiences while incarcerated with long indeterminate sentences during the initial year of the covid pandemic.
InsideOut Kalamazoo consolidates a book club of community members outside and inside of Michigan’s Dept. of Corrections to read books selected by incarcerated readers at no-cost to imprisoned participants. SawariMedia recruits participants in partnership with Kalamazoo College and hosts live discussions.
Vote by Mail in Jail where we recruit outside volunteers to mail election reminder postcards to eligible voters nationwide and curate materials to support eligible incarcerated voters across America including providing secure submission boxes to facility staff where eligible voters can submit election materials with less possibility for mailing delays. This program is completed majorly in partnership with Spread the Vote, Chicago Votes and Michigan’s Voter Access for All Coalition.
VoicEd podcast is produced in collaboration with incarcerated men and women across the country, Voices of Incarcerated Citizens Empowered. VoicEd is a podcast that amplifies the voices of our most vulnerable populations trapped in United States’ prisons, jails and detention centers. The battle is ongoing securing interview times and dates under corrections surveillance.
EIP Access is still a struggle for people incarcerated today. Guidance was published within prisoner newsletters in order to disseminate information to incarcerated citizens on how to access their stimulus support. SawariMedia partnered with several groups in order to host webinars, curate template forms, design FAQs and refer application assistance for people impacted for the CARES act of October 2020.
Corona CarePaks were distributed to dozens of Right2Vote readers who responded to the mutual aid effort addressing the lack of support for incarcerated citizens during the pandemic’s onset. The funds that made this program possible in 2020 were provided by the Detroit Justice Center.
OurStory 2020 Calendar adorned the walls of people in prisons all over the country during the most isolated year of the century worldwide. The calendar was a gift for those subscribers that had been reading SawariMedia’s newsletters for three years at that time, but it was so popular that requests for copies continue to come from people in prison today.
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House of Representatives 94th District Amos O’Neal Office Community Conversation Disrupting Barriers to Success for Returning Citizens with Amani Sawari Aired Thursday, February 16, 2023
Worth Rises Punishment & Profit Curriculum, Week 5 Programs & Labor featuring Kamau Allen, Amani Sawari, Andrew Free and Jorge Renaud, also on the Greene Space New York Public Radio Originally Aired: Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Case Western Reserve University, College of Arts & Sciences Sociology Colloquium: Prison Resistance: Inside/Outside Movements to Transform U.S. Prisons hosted by the Department of Sociology Ft. Ronald D. Simpson-Bey, Dr. Toussaint Losier, Dan Berger, Amani Sawari and Reuben Jonathan Miller November 11, 2020
The Real News Network California Lawmakers Passed A Bill Banning Private Prisons by Eddie Conway Ft. Amani Sawari October 15, 2019
EmbraceRace Webinar “It’s A Shared Sentence:” Kids, Parents, And The Cost Of Incarceration hosted by Andrew and Melissa of EmbraceRace with guests Amani Sawari and Beth Navon August 27, 2019
The Appeal Podcast, host Adam H. Johnson What’s Changed Since the 2018 Prison Strike? with Jailhouse Lawyers Speak spokesperson and Right 2 Vote national coordinator Amani Sawari June 13, 2019
Beyond Prisons Podcast, host Kim Wilson sits down with Amani Sawari of the Right2Vote campaign March 10, 2019
Fractal Friends, “Demanding Justice in the Prison System” with Amani Sawari hosted by Duncan Autrey September 18, 2018
KALW 91.7 FM Bay Area Public Media, What are the nationwide prison strike demands?
By Rose Aguilar Published August 29, 2018 at 12:01 AM PDT
CBC, U.S. prison strikes spread to Canada, as advocates call for end to ‘prison slavery’ CBC Radio · Posted: August 27, 2018 1:06 PM EDT
Democracy Now! hosted by Amy Goodman, Prisoners on strike use wealth of tactics and more with strike organizer Amani Sawari August 23, 2018
WNYC Sudio’s The Takeaway with Matt Katz talking to Amani Sawari, Prisoners Demand Reforms, Better Conditions in Nationwide Strike August 21, 2018
Democracy Now! hosted by Amy Goodman, National Prison Strike Begins: Prisoners in 17 States Demand End to “Slave Labor” Behind Bars with Amani Sawari August 21, 2018
Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee Final Straw Podcast – Interview with Prison Strike Organizers Amani Sawari and Brooke July 19, 2018