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ESTHER: Celebrating 20 Years!

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Events we're highlighting as part of our twentieth anniversary

End the Lockdowns Community Forum - Green Bay

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Date: 
Thursday, March 7, 2024 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: 
Mulva Library St. Norbert College 400 3rd Street De Pere WI 54115

WISDOM and Partners Host End the Lockdowns Community Forum in Green Bay

End the Lockdowns Community Forum flierWISDOM, ESTHER and JOSHUA host End The Lockdowns Community Forum on Thursday, February 22, 2024 from 6:00-8:00PM at St. Norbert College (Mulva Library) 400 3rd Street, De Pere, WI 54115.

Join us to meet Green Bay elected officials, learn about WISDOM’s End the Lockdowns Campaign and provide input on transformational justice priorities in Wisconsin. This event follows successful events in Milwaukee and Madison with elected officials.

WISDOM’s End the Lockdowns Campaign seeks to:

  • Raise awareness on the detrimental effects of lockdowns to people who are incarcerated in Wisconsin’s prisons and their loved ones.
  • Build build grassroots support urging Governor Tony Evers to use his authority to take action.
  • Close prisons, reduce the prison population, and reinvest spending into community resources that decrease crime and strengthen communities.

Register to attend the event in advance at https://bit.ly/greenbayendthelockdowns. If you would like to participate in car-pooling from the Fox Cities to attend this event, please leave a message at https://esther-foxvalley.org/tjtf.

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ESTHER Transformational Justice Task Force

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Date: 
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 2:00pm
Location: 
St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 140 South Green Bay Road, Neenah

Meets hybrid first Monday of each month from 6:00-7:30 pm. (The September meeting is held on the second Monday.)

Leave us a message at https://esther-foxvalley.org/tjtf with questions or to be added to the mailing list.

“We can’t punish people into being healthy. We need for families to stay intact and for offenders to be responsible to their communities. We are all better off when people can be healed and made whole through these effective programs that bring accountability to the offender and to the community. Alternative treatment programs work better than incarceration.”

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Justice in Crisis: Movie and Panel Discussion

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Date: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: 
Fox Valley Technical College, Room C190, Entrance 15 North Parking Lot, Appleton

Note the updated correction of entrance 15 and Room C190.
Register at esther-foxvalley.org/justicefilm

Film showing of Justice in Crisis: Mass Incarceration in America, with panel to follow.

Sponsored by ESTHER’s Transformational Justice Task Force.

Book Note: Redeeming Justice

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Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender: My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System, by Jarrett Adams

Keith Findley, keynote speaker at ESTHER’s 20th Anniversary Banquet on November 16, is a key figure in this 2021 book by Jarrett Adams. You can support ESTHER’s work on transformational justice and hear from the co-founder of the Wisconsin Innocence Project by attending ESTHER’s 20th anniversary banquet on November 16.

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Adams was seventeen when an all-white jury  in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, sentenced him to twenty-eight years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. In this unforgettable memoir, Jarrett recalls the journey that led to his exoneration—and inspired him to devote his life to fighting the many injustices in our legal system. With time running out for him to file his appeal, the Wisconsin Innocence Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School offered to represent him, both in drafting his appeal and representing him in court.

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