[1]Voting While Black

Dear John,

5 years ago, Mike Brown's body was left for 4 hours in the middle of the
road after being murdered by a rogue police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
Despite national outrage and eyewitness testimonies, St. Louis County
prosecutor Bob McCulloch failed to press charges against the officer who
murdered Brown.

Last year, we did something many people thought was impossible: we turned
our justified outrage into game-changing political action by helping
Wesley Bell defeat Bob McCulloch to become the St. Louis County
Prosecuting Attorney. 

This was a monumental win for Black communities in Ferguson and the rest
of St. Louis County. Unseating Bob McCulloch is a testament to the
revolutionary Black political power we possess. To be completely honest,
the odds were stacked against us. McCulloch had been in office for nearly
3 decades denying justice to Black and brown people and supporting an
unjust money bail system that disproportionately harms our communities.¹ 

We fought to turn Ferguson from a moment to a movement. And now, we’re
turning our Wesley Bell victory into a nationwide movement to elect
progressive prosecutors who will bring down harmful and racist
practices. [ [link removed] ]Chip in $5 to help bring about a movement to help us elect
more candidates like Wesley Bell throughout 2019 and 2020.

At Color Of Change PAC, we only ask you to support strategies that
actually produce an impact in Black people’s lives. Since Wesley Bell took
over, he has:

* Fired the prosecutor who failed to get justice for Michael Brown^2
* Implemented policies not to prosecute marijuana possession or failure
to pay child support^3
* Started a unit to investigate wrongful convictions and police
violence^4

Helping Wesley Bell claim victory was not an easy feat. With the help of
local partners at Organization for Black Struggle, Missouri Faith Voices,
St Louis Action Council and Working Families Party, and the support of
8,000 local Color Of Change PAC members, we opened an office in St. Louis
County, hosted two block parties, delivered direct mail straight to
households, had thousands of in-person conversations, sent over 95,000
peer-to-peer texts, put up a billboard on a major interstate, and ran
digital videos and ads to mobilize over 200,000 voters.

These tactics are the blueprint to our victories. And the only way we can
continue to implement game-changing campaign strategies is if we receive
support from folks like you. Already this year, we’ve had our first big
win. We unseated a 24-year district attorney in Mississippi and claimed a
primary election victory for Shameca Collins, a Black woman with a
transformational vision for ending mass incarceration in her district. 

In order to help candidates like Shameca win in November, we need your
support. Why? You might not have known this, but Color Of Change PAC does
not accept money from large corporations. Our movements are backed by
people power from folks just like you. Without your help, our electoral
work is not sustainable. [ [link removed] ]Will you chip in to help us bring monumental
change to Black communities?

Reforming America’s criminal justice system is as crucial as it has ever
been. We've proven that we know how to win, and we'll keep winning with
you. The future of criminal justice reform is at our
grasp. John, do you want to see more racist and harmful
Prosecuting Attorneys unseated from office in 2019 in 2020? 

[ [link removed] ]Yes, I want to see more victories for Black people!

Until justice is real,

Arisha, Jenni, Charles, Tammi, Scott, Daniel and the Color Of Change PAC
team

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