m4BL - movement for black lives
The Time Has Come to Defund the Police: What It Means
Demand: Defund the Police, Invest in Black Communities, Call for the Resignation of Trump
Take Action: In Defense of Black Lives
Donate: The Movement for Black Lives needs us now
Demand: Defund the Police, Invest in Black Communities, Call for the Resignation of Trump
Take Action: In Defense of Black Lives
Donate: The Movement for Black Lives needs us now
SURJ - SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE
SURJ's mission is to organize white folks to show up for racial justice. Join their call to action.
SURJ asks everyone making a donation to SURJ to make a matching gift to a Black-led Racial Justice Organization. This list was compiled by leadership from the Movement for Black Lives.
SURJ asks everyone making a donation to SURJ to make a matching gift to a Black-led Racial Justice Organization. This list was compiled by leadership from the Movement for Black Lives.
the 'fed up'-rising
Resources collected by the Multicultural Resource Center at St. Cloud State University to support Understanding the George Floyd Movement.
Heather Cox Richardson offers thoughtful analytical updates daily in her Letters from an American - free subscription.
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The Root offers A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 'Fed Up'-rising.
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Showing Up for Racial Justice offers 5 Ways White People Can Take Action in Response to White and State-Sanctioned Violence.
A resource for anti-racism materials aimed at supporting white people to become accomplices for anti-racist work. Includes immediate action steps and resources for better analysis and understanding.
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Deepa Iyer writes about Mapping Our Social Change Roles in Times of Crisis.
21 Days for Inclusive Democracy. A project of the Western States Center.
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necessary reads
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Sarah Bellamy's Performing Whiteness. Bernard Meyer on The Basics of Black Lives Matter and Why You Need to Act Today. |
R E S O U R C E S
FOR NAVIGATING COVID-19 IN THIS TIME OF TRUMP
We now have access to many resources to help us make sense of the Coronavirus pandemic structurally, institutionally, culturally, and personally. With help from friends (shout out to Cara Page, Shorlette Ammons, Sung Yon Park and so many others), we are posting some resources that might be particularly helpful. If you have others you would like us to post, please contact us or share widely among your networks. Sending love from us to you and wishes for our collective health - in all its many forms - and safety - in all the humanizing ways we know to help each other be safe.
Author, activist and journalist Naomi Klein says the coronavirus crisis, like earlier ones, could be a catalyst to shower aid on the wealthiest interests in society, including those most responsible for our current vulnerabilities, while offering next to nothing to most workers and small businesses. In 2007, Klein wrote “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” Now she argues President Trump’s plan is a pandemic shock doctrine. In a new video for The Intercept, where she is a senior correspondent, Klein argues it’s vital for people to fight for the kind of transformative change that can not only curb the worst effects of the current crisis but also set society on a more just path.
Fortification COVID-19 Edition is a conversation with Cara Page, Susan Raffo and Anjali Taneja, curated and hosted by Caitlin Breedlove and grounded in our evolving spiritual mandate in and beyond COVID-19. Episodes are centered in the experiences of resistance and abolitionism in response to the colonization and policing of People of Color and Indigenous communities; Queer and Trans; and people with disabilities in the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC).
Jamelle Bouie discusses how the anti-lockdown forces derive their power from the enforcement of racial hierarchy in his NY Times opinion piece: The Anti-Lockdown Protestors Have a Twisted Conception of Liberty.
Cara Page and Eesha Pandit talk to us about Intersections of Justice in the Time of Corona Virus as "a call to action, a call to slowing down and reconfiguring what is important, listening deeply to what communities are asking for, in the short and long term."
Fortification COVID-19 Edition is a conversation with Cara Page, Susan Raffo and Anjali Taneja with multiple guests, curated and hosted by Caitlin Breedlove and grounded in our evolving spiritual mandate in and beyond COVID-19. These episodes are centered in the experiences of resistance and abolitionism in response to the colonization and policing of People of Color and Indigenous communities; Queer and Trans; and people with disabilities in the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC). It introduces listeners to the histories that led to this moment as well as the present time expression and future visions needed to transform and intervene on the MIC.
Noah Chomsky weighs in on how We Will Overcome ... But We Have More Serious Crises Ahead.
Lori Villarosa writes about COVID-19: Using a Racial Justice Lens Now To Transform Our Future in the NonProfit Quarterly.
Ibram X. Kendi looks at What the Racial Data Show, which is predictably the way that systemic racism means that People of Color are being more highly impacted by the coronavirus. Kendi offers an additional look in his article Stop Blaming Black People. And this article in the New York Times speaks to the impact on Black Americans specifically. Maria Givens writes about how COVID-19 is impacting Indigenous communities.
Deepa Iyer offers Mapping Our Social Change Roles in Times of Crisis, a framework that encourages us to think about our gifts and offerings in a liberatory and collectively interdependent way.
The Multicultural Resource Center at St. Cloud University in Minnesota offers Antiracist Resources during COVID-19.
Teen Vogue offers a solid 10 Ways to Fight for Social Justice During the Coronavirus Epidemic. Check it out.
Given how the current administration and state and local governments are using this pandemic to increase their power to target already distressed communities and strip civil liberties, the good people at the National Lawyers Guild suggest that we Know Our Rights During Covid-19.
The National Innovation Service offers An Equitable Systems Transformation Framework for COVID-19.
Southerners on New Ground has published about Abolitionist Organizing Work in the Times of the Global Pandemic.
Marian Urquilla through the Center for Community Investment is Reimagining Strategy in Context of the COVID-19 Crisis and offers A Triage Tool.
Our good friends at SURJ have offered 5 Anti-Racist Actions for White People to Take During COVID-19
Take a look at this blog by our friend Susan Raffo on Coronavirus and Community Care. Our good friend Marisol Jiménez is modeling one way to offer mutual support on her website page Coping With Corona: A Collective Space.
Ricardo Salvador writes about how Agribusiness is using the COVID-19 Crisis to Slash Food-Worker Wages ... and what we can do about it.
Michael Rand at interest.com offers links to financial resources and support for DACA recipients during this period of COVID-19.
A reminder that we need to show up for and with those targeted by the anti-Chinese racism stoked by the present administration. Chris Gayomali offers reflections from his experience here. Find a resource for bystander intervention here and here and here. Find a resource for educators here. And this website is documenting hate crimes aimed at Asian Americans.
The Justseeds Artists' Cooperative has put together two care packages (one and two) of health and solidarity graphics to share on social media or print and install in your windows.
For those of us who are homeschooling with an anti-racist liberatory approach, here are some sources:
For those living in NC (where this website is based), please check out NC United for Survival and Beyond.
Fortification COVID-19 Edition is a conversation with Cara Page, Susan Raffo and Anjali Taneja, curated and hosted by Caitlin Breedlove and grounded in our evolving spiritual mandate in and beyond COVID-19. Episodes are centered in the experiences of resistance and abolitionism in response to the colonization and policing of People of Color and Indigenous communities; Queer and Trans; and people with disabilities in the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC).
Jamelle Bouie discusses how the anti-lockdown forces derive their power from the enforcement of racial hierarchy in his NY Times opinion piece: The Anti-Lockdown Protestors Have a Twisted Conception of Liberty.
Cara Page and Eesha Pandit talk to us about Intersections of Justice in the Time of Corona Virus as "a call to action, a call to slowing down and reconfiguring what is important, listening deeply to what communities are asking for, in the short and long term."
Fortification COVID-19 Edition is a conversation with Cara Page, Susan Raffo and Anjali Taneja with multiple guests, curated and hosted by Caitlin Breedlove and grounded in our evolving spiritual mandate in and beyond COVID-19. These episodes are centered in the experiences of resistance and abolitionism in response to the colonization and policing of People of Color and Indigenous communities; Queer and Trans; and people with disabilities in the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC). It introduces listeners to the histories that led to this moment as well as the present time expression and future visions needed to transform and intervene on the MIC.
Noah Chomsky weighs in on how We Will Overcome ... But We Have More Serious Crises Ahead.
Lori Villarosa writes about COVID-19: Using a Racial Justice Lens Now To Transform Our Future in the NonProfit Quarterly.
Ibram X. Kendi looks at What the Racial Data Show, which is predictably the way that systemic racism means that People of Color are being more highly impacted by the coronavirus. Kendi offers an additional look in his article Stop Blaming Black People. And this article in the New York Times speaks to the impact on Black Americans specifically. Maria Givens writes about how COVID-19 is impacting Indigenous communities.
Deepa Iyer offers Mapping Our Social Change Roles in Times of Crisis, a framework that encourages us to think about our gifts and offerings in a liberatory and collectively interdependent way.
The Multicultural Resource Center at St. Cloud University in Minnesota offers Antiracist Resources during COVID-19.
Teen Vogue offers a solid 10 Ways to Fight for Social Justice During the Coronavirus Epidemic. Check it out.
Given how the current administration and state and local governments are using this pandemic to increase their power to target already distressed communities and strip civil liberties, the good people at the National Lawyers Guild suggest that we Know Our Rights During Covid-19.
The National Innovation Service offers An Equitable Systems Transformation Framework for COVID-19.
Southerners on New Ground has published about Abolitionist Organizing Work in the Times of the Global Pandemic.
Marian Urquilla through the Center for Community Investment is Reimagining Strategy in Context of the COVID-19 Crisis and offers A Triage Tool.
Our good friends at SURJ have offered 5 Anti-Racist Actions for White People to Take During COVID-19
Take a look at this blog by our friend Susan Raffo on Coronavirus and Community Care. Our good friend Marisol Jiménez is modeling one way to offer mutual support on her website page Coping With Corona: A Collective Space.
Ricardo Salvador writes about how Agribusiness is using the COVID-19 Crisis to Slash Food-Worker Wages ... and what we can do about it.
Michael Rand at interest.com offers links to financial resources and support for DACA recipients during this period of COVID-19.
A reminder that we need to show up for and with those targeted by the anti-Chinese racism stoked by the present administration. Chris Gayomali offers reflections from his experience here. Find a resource for bystander intervention here and here and here. Find a resource for educators here. And this website is documenting hate crimes aimed at Asian Americans.
The Justseeds Artists' Cooperative has put together two care packages (one and two) of health and solidarity graphics to share on social media or print and install in your windows.
For those of us who are homeschooling with an anti-racist liberatory approach, here are some sources:
- Afrocentric Homeschooling
- Anti-Racist Home Instruction Resource List
- Audible Free Children's Audiobooks
- Black Lives Matter At School from the good people at BLM in DC
- Teaching Tolerance (although of course we want to teach more than just tolerance)
For those living in NC (where this website is based), please check out NC United for Survival and Beyond.