In many low-wage Black and brown communities, the largest state investment actually comes in the form of police, prisons, and high-tech surveillance infrastructure. And no interest in improving the daily lives of Palestinians. To stop receiving messages text STOP to 90975. The retroactive decriminalization, immediate release and record expungement of all drug related offenses and prostitution, and reparations for the devastating impact of the “war on drugs” and criminalization of prostitution, including a reinvestment of the resulting savings and revenue into restorative services, mental health services, job programs and other programs supporting those impacted by the sex and drug trade. All readers can browse the comments, and all Forward subscribers can add to the conversation. This, one of the tactics used by Nazis to dehumanize Jews and conflate us with the devil, the root of all evil. He earned his law degree from Louisiana State University in May 2016, where he was a Faculty Scholar. As a public defender, Tiffany represented hundreds of indigent clients facing felony prosecution and graduated from the Gideon’s Promise trial advocacy training program.

(Invest-Divest), Economic justice for all and a reconstruction of the economy to ensure our communities have collective ownership, not merely access. She recently transitioned into policy work with the National Employment Law Project, where she is engaged in work that will integrate NELP’s social insurance and work equity portfolios, and deepen NELP’s racial equity work. (Political power), This page was last edited on 27 September 2020, at 15:30. The U.S. now spends close to $200 billion per year on police and mass incarceration that continues to devastate Black communities. We’re joining a huge coalition demanding an end to the war on Black people.

In the Bay, James organized with the Frisco 500 before joining the Anti Police-Terror Project as its Policy Director, advancing local and state policy initiatives in an effort to curtail police violence in communities of color.

Enough is enough." She currently works as a public defender, and provides legal and strategic support to radical, community-led groups in her off-time. What is alarming about this is that the aid money is not used to attack or suppress individuals. But as of the moment this email was sent, Breonna Taylor’s killers have not.

Nora relocated to the Bay Area in 2013 and found a home among its supportive activist community, helping them blossom into an outspoken radical with a fierce and tender commitment to restorative justice. [28] Furthermore, the Movement for Black Lives' goals to promote economic, political, and social change provide a "solid blueprint" for future legislators as they seek to further understand and resolve the problems that exist within the black community. [4], Following the killing of George Floyd, M4BL released the BREATHE Act, which called for sweeping legislative changes surrounding policing; the policy bill included calls to divest from policing and reinvest funds directly in community resources and alternative emergency response models.

Over the last generation, the United States has dramatically increased spending on policing and incarceration, while drastically cutting investments to basic infrastructure and social safety net programs. Her mission is to remove systemic barriers in communities of color by bringing awareness of the racial disparities in systems where people of color are disproportionately affected. Most of her work as an attorney has been in direct services. If millions of people of conscience show up, if people like you speak out, 2020 could be a massive tipping point in the long arc towards racial justice.

And the crises keep piling up. While in law school, Wesley learned about ways to use his legal education as a tool for organizing and grew passionate about abolition as a path toward freedom. Finally, if you’ve gotten this far you may be wondering “why Greenpeace? In 2019, Law For Black Lives offered a 6-month fellowship for legal workers and lawyers to support work towards divestment from exploitative forces including prisons, police, surveillance and fossil fuels and investment in long term community based strategies for safe, sustainable communities. Jill began organizing at the intersection of race, class, and gender when she was eighteen years old and enrolled at Spelman College. She edits for Scalawag Magazine, a publication dedicated to unsettling dominant narratives of the U.S. South. Despite constant exploitation and perpetual oppression, Black people have bravely and brilliantly been the driving force pushing the U.S. towards the ideals it articulates but has never achieved. Both committees examine the intersection of health systems, with race and structural inequality. Folabi brings a wealth of experience as a human rights advocate and recognized leader in the global social justice movement. [26], Organizations such as the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, ACLU of Northern California, and the National Council of Jewish Women showed support for the Movement for Black Lives by issuing public statements following the movement's controversial publication of its platform.

They are especially interested in connecting all the dots of anti-PIC work in the city of Detroit to form a more comprehensive narrative and movement. With relentless drive, she aims to disrupt power structures that oppress, abuse, and imprison Black communities, by transforming the way disability rights law is traditionally practiced. Vigorous debate and reasoned critique are welcome; name-calling and personal invective are not and will be deleted. .

All to maintain the unjust status quo and delay justice.
[7] This year long process ultimately resulted in the establishment of an organizational platform that articulates the goals, demands, and policies which the Movement for Black Lives supports in order to achieve the "liberation" of black communities across America. 702 H Street, NW, STE 300, Washington, D.C. 20001 | 1-800-722-6995, tipping point in the long arc towards racial justice, divest resources away from policing in local budgets, Statement in Response to Police Violence During Recent Protests. Hope is what carried our ancestors, and hope is what will carry us now. That’s why Greenpeace is heeding the call of the Movement for Black Lives.

Rashad eventually found BYP100 as their political home, and has been deeply invested in the Movement for Black Lives ever since. (Reparations), Divestment from the institutions that criminalize, cage and harm black people; and investment in the education, health and safety of black people. To protect Black lives and heal Black communities, we must divest from the police and invest in Black communities. James left the SCHR in 2009 to study civil rights law at Georgetown University Law Center.

I am a proud Teach For America Corps Member, but I do not agree with every single method that Teach For America uses. Tyler Whittenberg is Deputy Director of Advancement Project’s Ending the Schoolhouse-to-Jailhouse Track project. Egregious commenters or repeat offenders will be banned from commenting. [34][non-primary source needed], In August 2020, the Movement for Black Lives together with over 100 left-wing organisations, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Jewish Voice for Peace and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, signed an open letter calling for cutting ties with the Anti-Defamation League.

Prior to law school, Maya worked on campaigns to address police brutality and economic injustice in Los Angeles. I will continue to advocate for the Jewish people, the state of Israel, and to educate those who will listen on the issues and dangers of BDS.

If you’re happy to have the right to gather, organize, and strategize, thank the NAACP for their landmark 1958 victory. The language used and the decision to only single out Israel for acts it is not committing is anti-Semitism. The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) is a coalition of more than 50 groups representing the interests of black communities across the United States. Why me?” The answer is this: to be silent in the face of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice and every piece of the murderous, polluting system that goes with it. The four NBA stars saw it as an opportunity to bring individuals on both sides of the Movement for Black Lives together; former Miami Heat shooting guard, Dwyane Wade stated, "Racial profiling has to stop... but also the retaliation has to stop. While it is not our movement, if we fail to be allies and advocate for change, we are simply helping the oppressor. I am proud to be an American, but don’t support all of the United States policies. She completed a restorative certificate program at the New School and says change will not happen independently of healing.
"[11], The movement's platform, published in August 2016, entitled "A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom and Justice," has six demands:[12][13], Shortly after the movement published its platform in 2016, 50 organizations had registered their support. Danielle Dillard is the Campaigns and Advocacy Coordinator at the Detroit Justice Center. The Movement for Black Lives is a fiscally sponsored 501c3 at the Alliance for Global Justice.

Upon graduating from law school, Wesley is moving back to Memphis to work at a local organization that provides legal services to people who have been through the criminal legal system. She is especially interested in history and its effects on modern day communities throughout the world and hopes to bring to the surface the intersections of the current immigration system and the criminal legal system. To stop receiving messages text STOP to 90975. [2] Endorsed by groups such as Color of Change, Race Forward, Brooklyn Movement Center, PolicyLink, Million Women March Cleveland, and ONE DC,[3] the coalition receives communications and tactical support from an organization named Blackbird. It’s time for transformative change.


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