FEATURED PROJECTS
Help Us Win $1,000!
Our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas, is distributing $1,000 to 20 different projects for their annual Spring Match campaign. Every donation that you make to Donkeysaddle Projects between Monday, April 15 and Friday, April 19 will give us an entry into the pool, and one extra chance for us to receive the $1k match. No donation is too small; a $1 donation counts as an entry!
Donkeysaddle Projects fights for a liberated world free from state violence in all its manifestations. We provide entry points into this movement work by integrating political education, organizing and advocacy, and art/storytelling projects. Your donations, which will hopefully enable this $1k match, will help us continue to work on projects such as Yo Te Esperaba, an immersive performance piece and installation in development; our Palestine Grassroots Distribution Project; our Abolition Learning Circles, and more! Please make a donation of any size to help us win this $1k match today. Thank you for the support!
TROY DAVIS
The I Am Troy Davis performance project began in 2019 as a theatrical protest against the death penalty and intersecting forms of state and racial violence.
The performers include death row survivors, family members of wrongfully convicted people (including those currently on death row), and relatives of those killed by state or racial violence. A documentary film of the process and performance is currently in post-production. Watch an excerpt here!
The Intersection of Islamophobia and Anti-Blackness Within US Prisons:
A deep dive into one incident of brutality against incarcerated men in Missouri, and the pattern it reveals
In February of 2021, a group of Muslim men incarcerated at a Missouri prison was violently pepper sprayed and brutalized while gathered to pray in the common area—for no other reason than the fact that they were praying. This incident, while harrowing, was not isolated. Rather, it is emblematic of the twin pillars of anti-Black racism and Islamophobia that undergirds so much violence within prisons, as well as the inhumanity of the prison system overall. Please join us on Wednesday, April 17th at 5pm PT/6pm MT/7pm CT/8pm ET to discuss this incident, and the anti-Blackness and Islamophobia that incites similar violence within prisons. Panelists will include Reggie (Qadir) Clemons, one of the men who was assaulted; Ronnie Amiyn, a Muslim man who was formerly incarcerated in Missouri; Rami Nsour, founding director of the Tayba Foundation; Kimberly Noe-Lehenbauer, Esq, from the Council on American-Islamic Relations and representing the men who were assaulted; and Jen Marlowe, founder of Donkeysaddle Projects who investigated and reported on the incident for Al Jazeera English. The panel will be moderated by maya finoh from the Center for Constitutional Rights. RSVP here: https://forms.gle/dFkFRtYHfxPe3oWb8