FROM CALIFORNIA LATINAS FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE
Dear friend,
Join us for a virtual day of action on Wednesday, December 9th urging Governor Newsom to support the budget request to establish the Forced Sterilization Compensation Program.
On September 14th, news broke on the most recent state sponsored forced sterilizations at the Irwin ICE Detention Center in Georgia, bringing to light another blatant example of the many ways eugenic ideologies and practices continue to seep into state institutions across the country.
Here in California, we continue to fight for justice and the visibility of the over 20,000 people sterilized under California eugenics law - a third of eugenics sterilizations nationwide between 1909-1979 - and the hundreds of sterilization survivors from California women's prisons post 1979.
California must now lead in reckoning with its violent legacy. The time to #EndEugenicsLegacy in California and #CompensateSurvivors of forced sterilizations is NOW!
TAKE ACTION
Join us for a virtual day of action on Wednesday, December 9th!
Use our Social Media Toolkit to send messages to Governor Newsom on Social Media urging him to support the budget request to establish the Forced Sterilization Compensation Program.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eo2PHoIpZ9UV9rmxTuqq2VUvIysBixHzNM95D2AJt30/edit
Please post as much as possible leading to December 9th.
USE SOCIAL MEDIA TO RAISE YOUR VOICE!
TWEET: @GavinNewsom eugenics & forced sterilizations have never stopped in this country. CA must lead national efforts to end eugenics ideologies and practices, in all its forms, & protect our human right to decide if, when, and how to parent. #EndEugenicsLegacy #CompensateSurvivor
TWEET: 3 months ago, news broke on the most recent forced sterilizations at the Irwin Ice Detention Center in Georgia. The legacy of eugenics continues to seeop into state institutions across the country including CA. @GavinNewsom it's time to #EndEugenicsLegacy & #CompensateSurvivors
TWEET: Between 1909-1979 CA sterilized at least 20,000 people - a third of eugenics sterilizations nationwide. CA led the nation in the eugenics movement and MUST lead in reckoning with its violent legacy. @GavinNewsom it's time to #EndEugenicsLegacy and #CompensateSurvivors
TWEET: @GavinNewsom it has been Black, Indigenous, Latinx, incarcerated people, people with disabilities, and poor people who have been targeted for sterilizations. How much longer must survivors wait for some semblance of justice? #EndEugenicsLegacy #CompensateSurvivors
TWEET: @GavinNewsom 1000's of people are calling on California to lead by reckoning with its violent legacy of eugenics and forced sterilizations. It's time to #EndEugenicsLegacy and #CompensateSurvivors bit.ly/sterilizationreparations
About The Forced Sterilization Compensation Program
Summary: The Forced Sterilization Compensation Program would compensate survivors who were forcibly sterilized in state institutions under California's eugenics law from 1909-1979 or who were subjected to coerced or involuntary sterilizations in women's state prisons after 1979.
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Thank you for uplifting this issue with our lawmakers. It is time for California to make amends to build a better future for us all!
En la lucha,
The CLRJ Familia - California Latinas for Reproductive Justice