Content Warning: This email discusses police brutality and murder.
Over the past week, protests and memorials have taken place across our country, and around the globe. Black freedom fighters, organizers, community-builders, and allies raised their voices in Boston, D.C., Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and so many more cities and towns.
On Tuesday, I attended a vigil for George Floyd in Boston organized by Violence in Boston, a trailblazing grassroots organization that is doing the work to end injustice and improve the quality of life for folx in our community.
They are joined in that work by Families for Justice as Healing, another organization in Boston focused on ending the incarceration of women and girls. They empower formerly incarcerated women to join the movement to create community-based alternatives to incarceration that center healing.
If you can afford to, will you split a $3 contribution between Violence in Boston and Families for Justice as Healing today? Every contribution will help uplift our community and support the organizers and activists who are working to end systemic racism.
Black bodies have been profiled, surveyed, policed, lynched, choked, incarcerated, and murdered at the hands of police officers with callous disregard and without accountability.
There will be unrest in our streets for as long as there is unrest in our lives, and we are calling for deep, lasting structural, legislated change — to advance healing and justice.
Violence in Boston and Families for Justice as Healing are two organizations in Boston working every single day to dismantle and reimagine our racist, oppressive criminal injustice system.
Change comes when we organize for it, when we mobilize for it, and when we demand it. Thank you for demanding necessary change.
In solidarity,
Ayanna Pressley
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