Coca-Cola is helping the Atlanta police foundation convince communities to
overlook the murder of Black and brown men and women by police.

And it's not the only corporation supporting secretive and dangerous
police foundations. Tell them to stop now.

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John,

Coca-Cola, Target, and Starbucks are thwarting efforts to end police
brutality and racism.

They’re all supporting shady police foundations that secretly buy hi-tech
surveillance equipment and military-grade weapons used by police to
brutalize Black and brown neighborhoods and squash protests.

We met with corporate executives last week to demand that they cut all
ties with police foundations. They told us that they will continue
supporting the police until the customers, employees, and communities they
serve tell them to stop. You have the power to put an end to this.

[ [link removed] ]Add your name to the petition before we deliver it next week to show
there is a groundswell of people demanding that corporations stop
supporting police foundations.

Target gave $200,000 to the LA police foundation for a hi-tech
surveillance system that has been used to terrorize Black and brown
communities. Meanwhile, Coca-Cola has given over $350,000 to the Atlanta
police foundation to make police seem less dangerous, and Starbucks hosts
“coffee with a cop” in stores across the country.

Whether giving money to police foundations for weapons, surveillance, or
programs to cover up police brutality, these corporations are complicit in
the systematic tracking, terrorizing, and killing of Black and brown
people by police.

Coca-Cola, Target, and Starbucks all put out statements last summer
promising they would do their part to promote racial justice. But in order
to keep their promises, they must shift their funds away from police
foundations, and instead give that money to groups that actually help
marginalized communities.

Studies show that the best way to reduce crime and poverty is to invest in
resources like education, healthcare, community centers, and workforce
development. 

Giving more funding to increasingly militarized and brutal police
departments does not make communities safer.

[ [link removed] ]Sign here to demand that Target, Coca-Cola, and Starbucks spend their
money on groups helping communities instead of groups terrorizing
communities.

Just a few months ago, Wells Fargo announced it would review donations to
police foundations. It is up to us to make sure Target, Coca-Cola, and
Starbucks do the same.

They’ve told us that if enough of us speak out now, they will reconsider
supporting police foundations.

Together we can show corporations that press releases supporting the
racial justice movement won’t cut it. We want to see real action that will
help heal our communities.

Let’s do this.



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In Solidarity,
Toni, Lacey, and the team at SumOfUs


More information:

[ [link removed] ]In City After City, Police Mishandled Black Lives Matter Protests, the
New York Times, March 29, 2021

[ [link removed] ]Project NIA Presents: Defund the Police, Project Nia, October 24, 2020

[ [link removed] ]Corporate Backers of the Blue: How Corporations Bankroll U.S. Police
Foundations, Little Sis, June 08, 2020

[ [link removed] ]Private donors, including Target and IBM, supply spy gear to
cops, ProPublica, October 14, 2014

 

 

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