Justice for George Floyd & Tony McDade and all Black LivesGrassroots Global Justice Alliance joins community voices from across North America and around the world collectively condemning the murders of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tony McDade in Tallahassee, Florida, Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and so many more Black lives lost to white racial violence, police militarism, and
structural racism in the United States. We stand with our family in Minneapolis, and the youth on the frontlines who have taken to the streets to demand true justice and system change. " As we bear the wounds of a murdering virus COVID 19, we also bear the lynchings of unarmed innocent Black people by police and vigilantes. The pandemic isn't just COVID, the pandemic is white supremacy, police and prisons, capitalism, militarism, colonialism, patriarchy and mass displacement. Now more than ever we should be supporting Black-led organizing to defund the police, abolish prisons, and build communities of collective care not cops and cages. The revolution is
draped in righteous anger and resilient dignity! We will not be stopped!" —Siwatu Salama-Ra, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance and the Freedom Team
" There is a long history of resistance to police violence in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Of course, the recent police murders of Philando Castile and Jamar Clark are widely known, but the list goes back for decades. Time and again the Black community has fought back while bearing the brunt of police brutality in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. These are the Cities that present a liberal face in the midst of the dirty underbelly of bad education, economic dispossession, criminal injustice, deep health
and environmental disparities in Black communities. And now there is George Floyd, another police killing. The fissures are wide open. The rebellion is on."
—Rose Brewer, Activist Scholar with Afro-Eco and leader in GGJ
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