Visible Voices Event

Visible Voices

Date: 
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

At Grace House.  Refreshments will be served. 

Visible Voices

Date: 
Wed, 01/18/2012 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Come celebrate the anti-shackles bill being signed and weigh in on upcoming topics.  Refreshments will be served.  We will meet at Grace House.

Visible Voices

Date: 
Wed, 01/04/2012 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Meet at Grace House - planning for the New Year.

Visible Voices event

Date: 
Wed, 09/21/2011 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for the National Organization for Women, Chicago Chapter reception honoring CLAIM and the amazing Dawn Clark Netsch.  Call to RSVP before Sept. 15.

Visible Voices Meeting

Date: 
Wed, 09/28/2011 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Tips for public speaking and discussion.  Refreshments.  Join us!

Visible Voices Meeting

Date: 
Wed, 10/19/2011 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Guest speaker Geraldine Smith discusses the death penalty and the successful repeal of the death penalty in Illinois.  Join us!

Visible Voices Meeting

Date: 
Wed, 11/02/2011 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Women & Children, Race & Justice

Join us for a review of the DVD with authors Michelle Alexander and Dorothy Roberts on mass incarceration and family destruction.

Seated, left to rigth, Beth Richie, Dorothy Roberts and Michelle Alexander, with CLAIM staff and board members

Visible Voices Meeting

Date: 
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Join us for a discussion with Joanne Archibald, an early member of Visible Voices, former Associate Director at CLAIM and current Associate Director at Beyondmedia.  What impact can our leadership have in small and large ways?  What are our journeys in the world and what can we learn from their commonalities and their uniqueness?  Refreshments will be served.  Call 312-675-0912 ext 14 for more information.

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Visible Voices meeting on ending human trafficking

Date: 
Wed, 08/31/2011 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

As agreed, we are focusing one more meeting on the End Demand campaign and will have Kennette, survivor and advocate, as our guest speaker.  Please join us!

Visible Voices Meeting

Date: 
Wed, 09/14/2011 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Join us for Visible Voices at a new time.

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Quick Facts

  • More than 16,000 women go to jail annually in Cook County Jail and about 82% are mothers.
  • About 80% of women detained at Cook County Jail are charged with non-violent crimes and only 1.8% of the 3,100 women admitted to Illinois prisons in 2009 were classified as a high security risk.

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