In March 2011, CURB launched the Budget for Humanity Campaign!! California’s budget crisis provides an urgent opportunity to dramatically shift the state’s funding priorities away from policing and imprisonment and toward education, health care, jobs, and housing. Brown’s budget proposal includes yet another round of devastating cuts to vital programs. The Budget for Humanity proposes that we can re-unite families, strengthen communities, and save billions of dollars by supporting people coming home from prison and implementing basic changes to parole policy and sentencing laws.
Our Three Main Demands:
- Stop All Prison and Jail Construction.
- Reduce Overcrowding and Release our Tax Dollars.
- Stop the Cuts and Invest in Our Future.
Organizations that endorse the B4H:
American Friends Service Committee
A New PATH (Parents for Addiction Treatment & Healing)
Berkeley Needle Exchange Emergency Distribution (NEED)
California Coalition for Women Prisoners
California Prison Moratorium Project
Community Justice Network for Youth
Community Works West – Project WHAT!
Dignity In Schools: Golden Gate School of Law Chapter
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Families to Amend California’s Three Strikes
Families to Amend California’s Three Strikes – Bakersfield Chapter
Families to Amend California’s Three Strikes – Long Beach Chapter
Hastings Race & Poverty Law Journal
Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace
Iraq Veterans Against the War – San Francisco Chapter
Juvenile Offenders Committee (JOC) – California Central Women’s Facility
Labor/Community Strategy Center
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Prison Activist Resource Center
Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles
Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains
RUACH
San Gabriel Valley Progressives
Sisters of St. Joseph – Los Angeles
Students for Sensible Drug Policy – National Board of Directors
Students for Sensible Drug Policy – Chapter at Golden Gate University
The Other Death Penalty Project
Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex (TGI) Justice Project
Quaker Friends – Santa Cruz
Women For Change Foundation, Inc.
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom – Santa Cruz Branch
Youth Communist League of Southern California
Individuals that endorse the B4H:
Darlene Acevedo, Member of Juvenile Offenders Committee CCWF
Cora Allo, Member of Juvenile Offenders Committee CCWF
Max Bell Alper, Organizer with Unite Here Local 2850
Latisha Brown, Member of Juvenile Offenders Committee CCWF
Vanna C. Member of Juvenile Offenders Committee CCWF
Christina Clark, Member of Juvenile Offenders Committee CCWF
M. Concepcion, Justice Now Board Member CCWF
Matthew Courtney, Conservatives for Social Change CMC
S. Day, Central California Women’s Facility
Natalie Demola, Member of Juvenile Offenders Committee CCWF
Katie Diepenbreck, Redwoods Retirement Center
Grace Dyrnen, Vice President of Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace
Ian Ellis, Student at Prescott College
Stephen L. Fiske, Board Member of Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace
Carol Greenberg, San Gabriel Progressives
Kenneth E. Hartman, The Other Death Penalty Project at CSP
Latonya Jenkins, Member of Juvenile Offenders Committee CCWF
Cynthia LaFata, Central California Women’s Facility
Mike Lane, 3 Striker at Salinas Valley State Prison
Diane Lefer
Carol Frances Likins, Member of Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace
Maribel Lopez, Member of Juvenile Offenders Committee CCWF
Rochelle Low
Elizabeth Lozano, Chairperson of Juvenile Offenders Committee CCWF
Anthony Manouros, Member of Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace
Jose Martinez, Pelican Bay SHU – Prison Hunger Strike Solidarity
Niki Martinez, Secretary of Juvenile Offenders Committee CCWF
Christina Marie Munoz, Member of Juvenile Offenders Committee CCWF
James Murphy, Non-violent, Non-Serious Third Striker at Corocoran
Debra Nolette, Central California Women’s Facility
Daniel Olmos
Nilda Palacios, Member of Juvenile Offenders Committee CCWF
Jessica Marissa Ponce, Central California Women’s Facility
Shirley Marie Pope, Central California Women’s Facility
Diana Martin
Sara Misquez, Member of Juvenile Offenders Committee CCWF
Amy Preasmyer, Public Relations for Juvenile Offenders Committee CCWF
Armand Ramirez, San Gabriel Progressives
Reina Reyes, Member of Juvenile Offenders Committee CCWF
Julia W. Ross
Ricky Ross
Cristine Ruiz, San Gabriel Progressives
Sonia Sanchez
Bernard L. Smith, Chief Investment Officer Prime Peoples Party, INC. CSP-SAC
Tracy Stillwater, Nurse
Seferina Torres, Member of Juvenile Offenders Committee CCWF
Scott Tudehope, Retired Teacher and Amnesty International Member
James Vargas
Taina Vargas
Yolanda Vargas
Monica Vasquez, Member of Juvenile Offenders Committee CCWF
Carol Watson, Attorney
Myesha Williams
Robert Wilson
Scott Wilson
Jocelyn Wong
Pamela Zigo, Student at Prescott College
Keaton Luis
Join the Campaign Today:
We are asking everyone to Sign On to the Campaign. Signed statements will be presented to local and state representatives! Please fill out the Budget for Humanity Endorsement Form and return to the CURB office! Please forward to any individuals or organizations who we should bring on board! Please find our additional Budget for Humanity Endorsement Form for People in Prison or Jail, please share this form and the Budget for Humanity with your loved ones who are imprisoned.
