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Hey John, 

Since Minnesota police murdered George Floyd in May while the world was in
lockdown from COVID-19, the conversation and demand to defund police have
continued to rise in the media, public consciousness, and across movements
for justice.

Now, in collaboration with Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) Atlanta and DC
chapters, [ [link removed] ]our second Solidarity School will explore how the demand to
defund police is the fight for climate justice. Will you join us next
Wednesday, September 9 at 5pmPT/8pmET?

The momentum of powerful uprisings continues: from Kenosha, Wisconsin,
where police shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times while his children
watched from the car to Rochester, New York where the footage was released
showing police murdering Daniel Prude in the wake of a mental health
crisis. And there is still no justice for Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland,
Tamir Rice, or Trayvon Martin, Brayla Stone, Atatiana Jefferson… the list
of human life goes on and on. 

Responses from politicians to this racism, police brutality and anti-Black
violence have been dangerously inadequate. This comes in the wake of
increasing climate disasters -- from hurricanes in the Gulf to fires in
the West -- hitting Black communities, Indigenous Peoples, and families
and workers of color first and worst.

When 5000+ of us united for a webinar on Dismantling White Supremacy in
the wake of George Floyd’s murder, we promised to continue political
education and strengthening connections between movements for climate and
racial justice. This is one crucial step in us keeping that promise,
together on the long path toward our collective liberation.

 

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Two recent reports found that fossil fuel companies directly bankroll
police funds, and that white supremacists and militias have infiltrated
police across the US. Police and filthy fossil fuel companies share
racist, colonialist, and fascist roots because they were both designed to
further systems of white supremacy. It’s time to divest from these systems
of white supremacy. 

It’s up to all of us to rise in solidarity to protect the rights and
dignity of Black life everywhere. [ [link removed] ]RSVP for Solidarity School #2 next
Weds, September 9 to dive into: Defund, Abolish & Divest: Climate, Racial
& Economic Justice.

In solidarity,

Clarissa

 

 


 


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