Endorse. Sponsor. Volunteer. Speak.
The network is its member coalitions and the people who carry the record into hearing rooms, courtrooms, and classrooms. Every form on this page goes straight into the network's own database, and a person reads every entry. Pick the door that fits.
Join or endorse as a person or an organization. Volunteer your hours or your skills. Sponsor the work. Make a statement the network can publish.
Coalitions keep their own voice. The network carries the definition, the instruments, and the record.
Three forms. One database.
Choose one. If the form does not load in your browser, the link under it opens the same form in a new tab.
Join or endorse the network. For individuals, coalitions, and organizations. An organization that endorses is listed on the Endorsers page once confirmed.
Volunteer. Organizers, researchers, lawyers, law students, auditors, translators, designers, and people who can show up. Tell us what you can do and where you are.
Newsletter. Rulings, filings, hearings, and ballot dates, when they happen. No noise between.
Sponsor. Make a statement.
The audits, the filings, the hearings, and the travel run on donations and on organizational sponsors. Individual gifts go through ActBlue. An organization, firm, or foundation that wants to sponsor an audit, a state campaign, or the demonstration volume writes to the network directly.
Organizations, elected officials, faith bodies, unions, and bar groups can put a statement of support on the record. Send it in your own words, on your letterhead if you have one, with the name of the person authorized to give it. Confirmed statements are published on the Endorsers page and cited in filings.
State coalitions are the members. If your state has one, join it. If it does not, the network helps you start it: the definition, the model amendment, the plea petition, and the audit method are all on this site, and the New Jersey coalition is the working model.
How to take abolition up locally.
The exception is enforced in county courthouses, state prisons, and plea rooms, not in Washington. That is where it is undone. Seven things a person or a small group can do this season, each with the tools on this site.
Read your own constitution.
Find your state on the map and read its text. Removed, still carried, or silent and inheriting the federal exception. That one sentence decides which fight you are in.
Join the coalition, or be the first three people.
The Jurisdictions page lists every state coalition with its site and socials. No coalition yet? Three people, a name, and a meeting date is how every one of them began. Use the Join form and say so.
Ask what the plea form says.
Nobody pleading guilty is told that conviction suspends their constitutional protection against slavery. Ask your public defender, your court's criminal practice committee, or your bar association whether the plea form discloses it. New Jersey's petition is the model; file yours.
Request the rules.
The audits run on the State's own written rules: work assignment, discipline, searches, mail, visitation, transfer. Every state has a records law. Request the department's policies and send them to the network. That is how a state gets scored.
Testify.
When a removal bill or a labor bill gets a hearing, show up and speak to the status, not the wage. The testimony clips show how it is done in five minutes. The Twelve Statements give you the sentences.
Put your city or county on the record.
Ask your council, your county commission, your school board, or your congregation to pass a statement of support for removing the exception. Send it to the network and it is published and cited.
The working model.
The Coalition to End Slavery NJ. Camden, New Jersey. Antonne Henshaw, Lead Organizer. The anchor coalition: it filed the plea petition, carried the amendment to the Legislature, and put the mural on the wall. Every state after it starts from what it built.
info@abolishslavery.us. A person reads every message.