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Welcome to the Campaign to #FreeMaddesynGeorge. Maddesyn (Colville Confederated Tribes) is a survivor of domestic and sexual violence who has been incarcerated since July 2020 for defending herself against a white man who raped and threatened her. #MMIW #SurvivedAndPunished (1/6)
@FreeMaddesyn is organized by Maddesyn's defense committee, a coalition of members of Maddesyn’s family, survivors of gender violence; and advocates, organizers, and scholars who work on colonial, sexual, and domestic violence, policing and incarceration, and #MMIP. (2/6)
Facing a murder charge and decades in prison, Maddesyn accepted a plea deal from federal prosecutors after being incarcerated and separated from her infant daughter for more than a year. #Incarceration is a tool of #FamilySeparation (3/6)
🧵 If you missed yesterday's #FreeMaddesynGeorge press conference, here are some highlights from our incredible panel of speakers that called on @USAO_EDWA to drop the charges against Maddesyn before her sentencing hearing on 11/17: 
“Violence against indigenous women was and is an integral part of colonization. . . The fact that Native American and Alaska Native women have been dehumanized throughout U.S. history informs present day attitudes...”
“...It helps fuel the high rates of sexual violence perpetrated against them and the high levels of impunity enjoyed by their attackers who still operate with the sanction of a frontier mentality.” – Dian Million
