Call in worked! Thank you so much supporters for ALL that you did and continue to do for our girl. CeCe appreciates it so very much and is now getting better medical care because of ALL of you! Go community go!
Demand that Chrishaun CeCe McDonald be administered the 20 milligrams of hormones that she is prescribed and allowed by court order!
CeCe is doing well in St. Cloud, even though she is putting up with a lot of harassment from guards and administration.
It took three weeks for her to begin receiving her hormones, and we learned yesterday that they are only giving her 6 milligrams instead of the 20 milligrams she is prescribed. This is egregious and insulting.
CeCe is asking her supporters to call-in to St. Cloud Health Services Director Cheri Meyer, MN DOC Health Director Nanette Larson and St. Cloud Psychological Services Director Bruce Hedge. Please CALL ALL THREE!
Demand that Chrishaun CeCe McDonald be administered the 20 milligrams of hormones that she is prescribed and allowed by court order!
Cheri Meyer (St. Cloud Health Services Director): (320)240-3077
Nanette Larson (MN DOC Health Services Director): (651)361-7280
Bruce Hedge (St. Cloud Psychological Services Director): (320)240-3030
Call today, call tomorrow, and leave messages. Fill their voicemail boxes and let them know that we are watching and that CeCe is not alone!
Please be firm but courteous when you call. Remember that prison administrators have enormous control over CeCe’s treatment, and antagonizing them could be harmful to CeCe.
Thank you for yr support of CeCe.
FREE CECE
Dear CeCe Supporters,
Two of CeCe’s friends & community organizers got to see CeCe this weekend which was wonderful.
She is still in St. Cloud (a men’s facility). Although technically off of reception status she has not yet been formally placed. This means that she now has an approved visitor list of 24 people (before she could only have two visitors). She has her own cell in a general population unit. They finally gave her a bra and a t-shirt, as opposed to the oversized button-up shirt she was required to conceal herself with because the administration is afraid of her breasts.
She is fairing fine - that is, she is kicking ass and taking names. She easily gets along with the other prisoners; it’s the guards and administration that are fucking with her relentlessly - and they say it’s for her “safety” against the rest of the prison population. All of her issues thus far are with guards and admin trying to control and regulate her gender as if it is outlaw. We could say more here, but she is promising to send out blog entries to post so I’d prefer to let her tell it in her own words.
After three weeks of not receiving her hormone treatments (which are mandated by the court for her to receive, at the dosage level she was prescribed prior to intake), she finally got her first dose this week….but it was for 6 milligrams as opposed to the 20 milligrams that she is prescribed. This was like a slap in the face, and she has asked us to begin a call-in campaign to demand that her medical treatment be respected and accurately followed.
She is avidly reading, most recently a couple of books by Mumia Abu Jamal. She has a book wishlist on Amazon if you are interested in sending her books. http://supportcece.wordpress.com/get-involved/send-cece-books/
And of course, keep writing. She is catching up on replying to letters, now that she has pencil and paper. But she is still getting used to the regulations around sending mail (as well as many other rules), so please be patient about getting responses from her. http://supportcece.wordpress.com/get-involved/write-cece/
Keep checking her blog and her facebook, tumblr and twitter pages for updates.
FREE CECE
CeCe got her first visitor today! Katie, who’s part of her support committee, went to St. Cloud to visit CeCe at the men’s prison she is being held in. She has been transferred to general population while the administration decides where to place her for the long term. CeCe was in high spirits, joking and hugging in her joyful way. That’s one good thing about prison, WE GET TO HUG HER AGAIN! A new list of things the community can send her will be posted on her website within the next day. Thanks so much for supporting CeCe everyone!
www.supportcece.wordpress.com
Fantastic CeCe McDonald video made by Melissa Koch!
POST, REPOST, TWEET, TUMBL, PLEASE SPREAD FAR & WIDE!!!
Fabulous CeCe McDonald video made by Ethan Turcotte!
POST, REPOST, TWEET, TUMBL, PLEASE SPREAD FAR & WIDE!!!
Write CeCe
Please send a letter to CeCe while she is in jail. Let her know she has a huge amount of community support and that we are all here for her.
Chishaun McDonald OID #238072 Minnesota Correctional Facility-St. Cloud
2305 Minnesota Boulevard S.E.
St. Cloud, MN 56304
Incoming mail must include the recognized legal name and Offender Identification (OID) number (listed above).Incoming mail may include paper with words/drawings; signed unmusical, commercial greeting cards and postcards; photographs (Polaroid photos must have the backing removed); periodicals and published materials shipped from the publisher; and clippings or photocopies of published materials that meet criteria.
Packages will not be accepted and will be returned to the sender. Photographs will be removed from the envelope and returned to the inmate at the time of release. Please note that all letters sent to the jail are opened, read, and inspected by jail staff. Use good sense about what you say in your letter, and don’t write about anything that is likely to get you or anyone else in trouble with the cops. Click here for more information about the DOC’s mailing regulations.
You can also organize a letter writing party! If you live in the area, you don’t even have to worry about paying for postage-bring your letters to the drop box for at The Exchange (3405 Chicago Ave S, Mpls) and we will mail them for you.
Supporting CeCe McDonald
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May 6 at 7:30pm until February 1 at 10:30pm
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- Folks are asking: What’s next? How can we help CeCe? www.supportcece.wordpress.com
Below are some solid ways to help CeCe as she awaits sentencing and while she serves her time in prison. Please spread the word, post and re-post. Don’t let the world forget about her, don’t let her be just another news story you read about once. She’s a human being who needs her community, she needs to know she’s still loved.
*Write letters & send books to CeCe in prison to show her yr love.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/freecece-mcdonald/cece-admitted-to-st-cloud-send-her-mail-today/288290337933203
*Write letters to the editor asking them to write responsible articles about CeCe’s case. We NEED to keep her story in the news.
*Write yr own articles and blog post, post, re-post, forward, spread her story far and wide.
*Start a CeCe Support Committee in yr area!
http://supportcece.wordpress.com/get-involved/start-a-support-committee/
*Organize a contingent in yr local PRIDE Parade to carry signs of support and hand out flyers telling folks about her case.
*Organize a fundraiser for CeCe. It cost a lot to survive in prison. She needs money for commissary, phone calls, writing materials and to fund trips for her family and supporters to visit her.
*Donate directly to her. This is a link to the only official CeCe McDonald donation site. (Or you can go to her website & there’s a link there. www.supportcece.wordpress.com)
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=gyKH7WOoXPQWY58xoiixnUSfWU_e9_2o2I7bV4HbKOl__WRfyimqkoUlC6i&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d195a86f1d217942f7415cf1b2a661693
Thank you all for supporting our girl! FREE CECE!
CeCe McDonald’s Sentencing Hearing is this Monday at 1:30pm, please come PACK THE COURTROOM!
Then come to @Noise Demo for CeCe at the Hennipen County Jail in Mpls at 10pm.
