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Dear John,
In honor of Juneteenth, and in response to the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Nina Pop, and countless other Black people who have been killed at the hands of vigilantes and law enforcement, Jobs With Justice is joining together with the Movement for Black Lives for a weekend of action. This Juneteenth is a rare moment for us to join together and proclaim in one voice that Black Lives Matter, and that we won't tolerate anything less than justice for Black people.
Millions have already shown up offline and online in defense of Black lives, to defund the police, invest in Black communities, and imagine a new, just world. And we aren't stopping now.
Will you join a Juneteenth event near you? |
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Click here to find one of the hundreds of online and offline Juneteenth events near you.
On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas — two and a half years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation — with news that the war had ended, and Black communities were now free.
Every year since, Juneteenth (June 19th) has been a day that centers Black people’s unique contribution to the struggle for justice in the United States, and the painful reality that freedom for Black people has always been hard-fought and much-delayed.
We’re already seeing how much Black organizing and uprisings across the country gets the goods — unprecedented wins are stacking up from Minneapolis to Los Angeles towards defunding the police and building new visions of community safety, infrastructure, and recovery. More than two-thirds of people in the U.S. agree that police violence is systemic.
If we keep rising up, we will win.
Please join Jobs With Justice, the Movement for Black Lives, and millions of people across the country for an important day and weekend of actions as we join together to take action and demand a world where Black Lives Matter.
Sign up here to join a Juneteenth action near you!
In Solidarity,
Joel Jobs With Justice |
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