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  The Fire Inside
 Issue 39 - Spring 2009

< Dedication
 
< Proposition 9 legal update by Carol Strickman, Staff Attorney, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
 
< Three Judge Panel
 
< Retos legales a la proposición 9 por Carol Stricklan, Abogado, Servicios Legales para Prisioneros con Niños
 
< Memorial for Shirley Ward Written by her sister, Linda Ward-Harden
 
< Editorial-Nosotros espezanzas para la futura
 
< Editorial-Our hopes for the future
 
< Communities protest execution-style police killing of Oscar Grant
 
< Year End Review
 
< Annual CCWP Retreat
 
< Writings from Inside, by Liz
 
< Lost Souls, Anonymous VSPW Prisoner
 
< Daddy I’m Coming Home
 
< Parole Beat
 
< CRUEL AND UNNECESSARY--HELEN LOHEAC PASSES JANUARY 5, 2009
 
< Preview of Upcoming Youth Issue Poem by anonymous young person
 
< For POSTERITY- This means YOU! By Kimberly Jones
 
< Health Column
 
< We Can
 
< It’s not too late. Stop Proposition 9!
 
< Townhall Meeting! Saturday May 16, 2009-San Francisco California’s Lifer Parole System
 
      

We Can

I remember my first day at VSPW. The females in the cellblock I was assigned to were very mean, violent, and loud. What happened to caring? What happened to overcoming the odds, not agreeing with them? What happened to standing up for what’s right? Just because we are in this situation doesn’t mean that we have to allow it to dictate us as being mean, violent, and loud.

Change your minds, and use this situation as a means to improving your lives, becoming better individuals, and if the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating fundamentally the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

“We can change”


Last updated September 8, 2009 04:01 PM



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