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IN SOLIDARITY

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Dear John,

George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, and so many others
have been murdered by police and vigilantes, and this violence must end. We
at Plastic Pollution Coalition add our voices to the collective grief. We
acknowledge the pain and trauma Black people and communities are facing and
have faced for hundreds of years, and WE STAND WITH THE MOVEMENT FOR BLACK
LIVES.

As the protests against police brutality and racial violence continue
across the United States and around the world, PLASTIC POLLUTION COALITION
STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH PEOPLE AND GROUPS—INCLUDING MANY OF OUR
COALITION MEMBERS—WORKING TO END RACISM AND SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION. 

We stand with groups doing vital Environmental Justice work and call on
ourselves and our colleagues to be active allies and find ways to work
together to advance racial justice and empower communities.

In many parts of the world including the Global South, the voices of Black,
Indigenous, and communities of Color are included and uplifted in the
environmental movement. We recognize in the United States this work has a
long way to go. WE ARE BREAKING OUT OF THESE SILOS TO REIMAGINE AND FIX
THIS BROKEN SYSTEM OF POWER. WE ARE SPEAKING UP AND DEMANDING CHANGE.

We are outraged at the violence and injustice that Black people and Black
communities are facing. We have witnessed the powerful connection between
environmental and social injustice and racism through air pollution caused
by incineration plants [8], water contamination, and many other
environmental injustices [9] and recognize these are all part of a single,
globally-connected Movement for Justice.

We will work in collaboration with tens of thousands of individual
Coalition members and more than 1,200 groups globally, to CHANGE SYSTEMS OF
OPPRESSION, AND END WHITE SUPREMACY BY ADVOCATING FOR SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR ALL.

What can _you_ do? Join the week of action in defense of Black lives [10].

For our allies who want to further unpack and explore their role in
dismantling white supremacy, we have compiled a list of resources and
readings below. We invite you to SHARE OTHER RESOURCES AND READINGS you
have found to be useful by filling out the form at the bottom of this page
[11].

RESOURCES

* Black Lives Matter [12]

* Black Visions Collective [13]

* Break Free From Plastic [14]

* Break Free From Plastic's Reading, Listen, and Watch List [15]

* Color of Change [16]

* Equal Justice Initiative [17]

* Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives [18]
* “I can’t breathe” from Executive Director Air Copland of 5 Gyres
[19]

* LiveFreeUSA.org [20]
* The Catalyst Project [21]- Anti-Racism for Collective Liberation

* The Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment [22]

READINGS

* _Me and White Supremacy_ [23] by Layla Saad
* _How to Be an Anti-Racist_ [24] by Ibram X. Kendi
* _75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice_ [25]__ by Corinne
Shutack
* _White Fragility: Why It's So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism_
[26] by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
* _The New Jim Crow_ [27] by Michelle Alexander
* _Crucial Conversations_ [28] by Kerry Patterson
* _So You Want to Talk About Race_ [29] by Ijeoma Olou
* _Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?_ [30] by
Beverly Daniel Tatum
* _Article: 5 Things White People Can Do Right Now to Combat White
Supremacist Violence_ [31] by Showing Up for Racial Justice

* _Racial Equity Tools: Environmental Justice - Key Sites, Research &
Practices [32]_

* _Environmental Health and Racial Equity in the United States: Building
Environmentally Just, Sustainable, and Livable Communities [33]_

In solidarity,

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PLASTIC POLLUTION COALITION is a growing global alliance of individuals,
organizations, businesses, and policymakers working toward a world free of
plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on humans, animals, waterways,
oceans, and the environment. Plastic Pollution Coalition is a project of
Earth Island Institute, a 501(c)3, non-profit organization, organized and
existing under the laws of California (Federal Tax ID #94-2889684).

PLASTIC POLLUTION COALITION
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