Fight for Black Lives and Against Police Violence. Here’s How.
This is a preliminary list compiled by a group of Co-op member-owners. Check back here as we update it with more resources and ways to fight for Black lives and against police violence.
Get involved. Connect with the Justice for George Floyd and Justice for Breonna Taylor campaigns. The websites allow you to lend your name to petitions in support of their demands, but the sites also provide opportunities for greater involvement.
The @JusticeForGeorgeNYC Instagram account and the @protest_nyc Twitter page are reliable sources for information about when and where demonstrations are occurring throughout the five boroughs.
It’s Pride month, and the 2020 Queer Liberation March takes place on June 28. Participants will march “for Black lives and against police brutality.”
Donate. ActBlue allows you to split a donation among 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers around the United States.
The National Bail Fund provides a directory of national and state-level organizations to which to donate. And, because they’ve received sufficient funds to cover bail for NYC demonstrators, the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund will use donations to support other aspects of its mission and to lend financial support to other groups around the country.
The Reclaim Pride Coalition, which is organizing the 2020 Queer Liberation March, is also collecting donations.
Get informed. Princeton historian Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor tallies the antecedents to the uprisings that have sprung up across America—and the world—in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and argues why today’s struggles might have a better chance at success.
Verso Books, whose US branch is based in Brooklyn, offers a wide selection of titles on prisons, policing, and Black struggle, including Alex Vitale’s wildly popular The End of Policing, which is currently sold out—but is available as a free ebook!
American University professor Ibram X. Kendi offers a wide-ranging list of anti-racist fiction and non-fiction titles that explore themes of sexuality, gender, blackness and whiteness, class, biology—and more.
Finally, here’s an excellent, expansive resource providing additional ways to get involved in a wide variety of struggles, donate money, and educate yourself.
Say his name. George Floyd. Say her name. Breonna Taylor.
And don’t forget to vote in New York’s primary elections on June 23! If you’re mailing in an absentee ballot, it needs to be postmarked by that date.