With the fire at Women With A Vision now two weeks behind us, we wanted to reach out to each of you to thank you for your support. Your donations, your efforts to publicize the arson through your networks, your sassy fundraisers, and your concern have brought us through the immediate post-fire crisis and clean out. We begin this week at our temporary […]
Office Clean Out – Interview with WWAV's Zina Mitchell
On May 29th, a team of friends and allies gathered at WWAV to begin the hard process of cleaning out the office after the fire. Channel 8 was on site, and ran a powerful story narrated by our Community Organizer/Outreach Worker, Zina Mitchell.
Arson destroys Women With A Vision office — Please Help!
Late at night on May 24th, 2012, someone broke into the WWAV office and set a fire, which has destroyed our space. We want everyone to know that everyone in the WWAV family is safe. And our work will continue. This will not and cannot stop us from speaking out for people who don’t have a voice.
Center for Constitutional Rights Honors WWAV
Since the early months of our NO Justice project, the Center for Constitutional Rights stood by us when few others would. They worked with us to bring a constitutional challenge against the crime against nature by solicitation statute, and never swayed from the knowledge that this was not a mere legal battle; this was a […]
OUR WIN – Letter from Executive Director Deon Haywood
There are few times in our work when are truly brought to the point of being speechless. For all of us at Women With A Vision, today is one of those days. Today, we celebrate with the women and men who courageously stood up to combat the criminalization of their lives – and won.