Updates from March? Friend ?

We firmly believe that Black Lives Matter and we are committed to doing
the real work that it takes to show up as a true ally and partner for the
Movement for Black Lives. Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color have
never been safe in this country ? they are not safe from police, from pandemics,
from exploitation, from discrimination, or from pollution. And yet, LCV and the
environmental movement as a whole has not done anywhere near enough to work
alongside and serve Black communities.

The result is that Black communities across the nation continue to
breathe dirtier air, drink more contaminated water, lack access to green spaces,
and be unsafe in their everyday environments.To build a better world that centers the needs of Black, Indigenous, and people
of color to overcome systemic racism and injustice, advances climate justice,
and protects all of our communities, we all need to be in the fight as
anti-racist allies.

LCV is committed to advancing racial justice and equity within the work
that we do so that we can be a true ally in this fight. We must all meaningfully
and intentionally step up in this moment to use our power to be better allies to
the Black leaders, activists, and organizers across the country who are already
leading the fight to build a better world where we can all breathe and thrive
safely and freely.

We cannot do this right without our supporters stepping up with us.For our Black supporters, we hope that you are taking time for healing,
restoring, and caring for yourself. For our non-Black supporters of color and
our white supporters, so much of this work must start with ourselves ?
interrogating our privilege and positions of power, understanding the impacts of
racism on our society, and learning about what it means to be an ally in this
work. Below are resources compiled by LCV staff of racially diverse identities
that have been helpful to us as we have stepped forward into the work of
anti-racism, and we hope that they can be a resource for you as well.

? LCV's Membership and Online Engagement Team ? FOR BLACK PEOPLE To our Black supporters, your health and lives are at the forefront of this
movement. Prioritizing your own personal healing and survival is paramount. The
trauma of constantly seeing and experiencing anti-Black violence stays in our
bodies and steals years from our lives. As a young Black woman, I have been
searching for ways to help keep myself mentally and emotionally healthy. It is
so important for us to pay attention to what our bodies and minds are telling
us. Prioritizing our health can look differently for each of us. It could mean
unplugging from social media and the news or organizing a check-in call with
family and friends. It could mean taking time each day to just breathe. To help
with this difficult process, we have compiled a non-exhaustive set of resources
that we hope can benefit your wellness.

At the same time, we have included learning resources to help each
of us in our own journey to fight for all Black lives. This movement is about
healing and learning. We must reflect on how the identities that we hold afford
us certain privileges and step up for those who have been historically silenced.
As a middle-class, able-bodied, cisgender woman, I myself have much to learn
about classism, ableism, transphobia, and other overlapping systems of
oppression. These resources are just a first step, but we hope that they help
advance an intersectional, anti-racist framework.

? Liyu Woldemichael
? To Heal and Take Care of Yourself and Your Community 44 Mental Health Resources for Black People Trying to Survive in This Country [link removed] Self-Care Tips for Black People Who Are Struggling [link removed] 13 Therapy and Wellness Resources for Black Mental Health [link removed] Supporting Black LGBT+ Youth [link removed] How Adults Can Support the Mental Health of Black Children [link removed] Helping Kids Process Violence, Trauma, and Race in a World of Nonstop News [link removed] Black Mental Health Podcast [link removed] Sustaining Ourselves When Confronting Violence [link removed] Practice: Healing in Direct Action [link removed] 27 Practice: Compartmentalizing in a Healthy Way [link removed] To Learn More About Black Leadership in the Environmental Movement Centering Black Trans Womxn [link removed] Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray: the toll of police violence on disabled Americans [link removed] The Urgency of Intersectionality (Kimberl? Crenshaw) [link removed] Hearing the Queer Roots of Black Lives Matter [link removed] Harvard Can't Save You: How Respectability Politics Attack the Integrity of Black Lives [link removed] Respectability Politics Have to Go [link removed] To Learn More About Black Leadership in the Environmental Movement The Environmental Justice Movement Rooted in Black History [link removed] Black Bodies, Green Spaces [link removed] Black Environmentalists Talk About Climate and Anti-Racism [link removed] FOR NON-BLACK PEOPLE OF COLOR As young non-Black women of color, we are reflecting, learning, and educating
our families and communities about what it means to stand in solidarity and
fight for Black lives. For generations, our communities have perpetuated,
benefited from, and internalized anti-Blackness, model minority myths, colorism,
and other manifestations of white supremacy and colonialism constructed to
divide our communities. We cannot be true allies to our Black colleagues,
family, friends, and community members unless we do the deep work of unlearning
these constructs, understanding our own privilege, and honoring the true
histories of anti-Black racism. In order to protect the planet, we must center
our work on being anti-racist and hold ourselves and our communities
accountable. Until we do so, we cannot truly fight for environmental and climate
justice. Below, you'll find some of the resources that have helped us in our
personal journeys, as well as ones that have served as resources as we have
difficult conversations with our families and our communities about showing up
as true allies for the Movement for Black Lives.

? Tiffany Hsieh, Elizabeth Jacob, and Julie Jimenez
? For Support on Your Own Journey We Cannot Stay Silent About George Floyd [link removed] Non-Black People of Color Need to Start Having Conversations About the Anti-Blackness in our Communities [link removed] Why every environmentalist should be anti-racist [link removed] How Latinx People Can Fight Anti-Black Racism in Our Communities [link removed] Asian Americans Need to Talk About Anti-Blackness in Our Community [link removed] On the Need for Cross-Racial Solidarity in the Latino Community [link removed] Asian American Pacific Islanders Resources for Anti-Blackness [link removed] For Support to Have Difficult Conversations with Your Family Letters for Black Lives [link removed] has resources translated into dozens of languages to make it easy to start difficult conversations with your family. Undocu Guide to Dismantling Anti-Blackness at Home [link removed] The Taiwanese American Conversation about #BlackLivesMatter [link removed] How to Talk to Your Asian Immigrant Parents About Racism [link removed] How Young People are Combating Anti-Black Racism in their Immigrant communities [link removed]

? FOR WHITE PEOPLE As a white person, I have been sold a narrative that folks of color don't care
about the environment and that's why the environmental movement is
overwhelmingly white, but the reality is quite the opposite. The white-led
environmental movement is a reflection of our society and has centered the
experiences, wants, and needs of white folks while excluding and ignoring people
of color. To become committed to anti-racism work as white people, we must
unlearn what we thought we knew and challenge all the narratives we have
believed. We can't do that all on our own and we need a lot of resources,
especially those created by people of color (and we should make sure we're
prepared to pay creators of color for their labor to teach us). Anti-racism is a
journey, and it takes recommitment on a daily basis. That's why I want to share
some of the important podcasts and articles that have made a big impact on me
over the last few years.

? Sammi Sluder
? Listen Scene on Radio's season 2 "Seeing White" [link removed] On Being's conversation with Resmaa Menakem "Notice the rage, Notice the silence" [link removed] On the Media's conversation on the proverbial "Karen" and white womanhood [link removed] Code Switch: Why Now White People? [link removed] In The Thick: A World Without Police [link removed] Read The Environmental Movement Needs to Reckon with Its Racist History by Julian Brave NoiseCat [link removed] Welcome to the Anti-Racist movement ? Here's what you've missed by Ijeoma Oluo [link removed] Sojourner's "For Our White Friends Desiring to be Allies" [link removed] The Root's Timeline of Events that led to 2020's "Fed up"-rising by Michael Harriot [link removed] The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun [link removed] The Transformative Power of Practice by Ng'ethe Maina and Staci Haines [link removed] Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup [link removed]

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