etta cetera
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etta cetera is on the Board of Advisors for Let’s Get Free and and helps organize its arts committee Creative Resistance, which stages annual shows of work by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists. She is a Pittsburgh-based community organizer and artist who is deeply committed to transformative and racial justice. She was pulled into the issues of mass incarceration through the wisdom and freedom struggle of Mumia Abu-Jamal alongside having a penpal in prison. Beginning in the year 2000 etta has co-founded many Pittsburgh-based organizations, including Book ’Em, Pittsburgh’s Books to Prisoner program; and HRC – FedUp!, the Pittsburgh chapter of Human Rights Coalition that advocates for incarcerated people who are suffering human rights abuses. In 2011 etta co-founded WHAT’S UP (Working and Healing to Abolish Total Supremacy, Undermining Privilege), a group formed to support, encourage, and challenge white people to work for racial justice.
