Events

Queen Mother Ivey Walton celebrated her 75th Birthday with family and friends at Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network. Not only is she a founding member of FREE!, but she is also a lifetime member of the National Action Network, an active member of her former employment union, and several other action groups around the NYC area!Ivey speaks to her guests at her 75th Birthday Bash at the National Action Network: Ivey includes all of her friends in her family...now THAT's community building!

“Just because your child makes a mistake, doesn’t mean you stop loving them…” -Ivey Walton, FREE! Steering Committee Member

The Visitors
Melis Birder
64 minutes

the visitors is a documentary about people from New York City with family and loved ones in prison, who - regardless of weather, health or other conditions, climb aboard buses every weekend for a visit.

Reflecting the struggles of a unique culture living at the intersection of confinement and the free world, the story follows the coordinator of the bus -Denise- whose husband is coming home soon after 17 years of imprisonment.

Do you have a loved one in prison?

Have you been incarcerated?

Then you know how important visits are for the health of the whole family!

If you believe visitors to prison should be treated with dignity, fairness and humanity, join our planning meeting:

Tuesday, Sept 22nd at La Pregunta Arts Cafe, 6-8pm. 1528 Amsterdam Ave (...btw 135th/136th) Harlem. RSVP to prisonfamz@gmail.com

(www.lapregunta.net for more location information)

Are you a friend of Ivey Walton's? Then send celebration energy to her as she celebrates her 75th Birthday all month long!

Ivey has become synonymous with FREE! embodying fierce family values and guiding us all in maintaining our founding principles and never forgetting our humble beginnings.

A wise leader, an amazing spirit and a loving friend and family member, Queen Mother Ivey Walton is an inspiration to us all!

Should Visitors to prisons have ANY RIGHTS? Are you FREE to visit your loved one without being treated less than human??

If you have a loved one in prison or have been incarcerated?, then you know how important visits are for the health of the whole family!

If you believe visitors to prison should be treated with dignity, fairness and humanity, join our planning committee:

Planning meeting for Visitors Rights campaign. 6pm sharp until 8pm sharp.

La Pregunta Arts Cafe, 1528 Amsterdam Ave, between 135th/136th streets (across from City College).

FREE! Families Film Forum is a monthly screening and discussion of films highlighting the impact of mass incarceration on our families and communities. FREE! Families Film Forum is a project of FREE! to promote dialogue and civic engagement in grassroots efforts to achieve justice. FFFF is co-sponsored by Maysles Cinema, and Third World Newsreel.

Films have included: Lockdown USA, The Visitors, Crips and Bloods: Made in America, Life Sentence, Teach Our Children, Black and Blue, and more!!

Stay tuned for our winter lineup! And Save the Dates! October 12th, November 9th, and December 14th, 6:15pm!!

Donations are welcome!

6:15pm - 8:30pm
Maysles Cinema
343 Malcolm X Blvd (Lenox Ave btw 127th/128th)