Racial Justice Collaborative
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Friends and Community Members,
Trayvon Martin. Michael Brown. Eric Garner. We are mourning too many deaths. Every where you look – housing, jobs, education, health, policing – racial disparities are killing our communities.
Last October, over 200 community members, neighbors, and organizers held a new kind of solidarity training for people who identify as white who are doing racial justice work and multi-racial movement work on the ground. Facilitated by Liz Loeb, Ricardo Levins Morales, and Susan Raffo we came together to share our collective wisdom, experience, and love.
The training arose through a collaborative process of relationship building, and out of a life and death hunger for racial justice through practical action and structural change. We take as central the notion that in order to change the conditions of violence in which we live, we must be part of a movement led by people of color.
We know that to do that in a multi racial context, and in a way that works respects the soveriegnty of our native and indigenous comrades on whose land we live, we all have to walk with our fears and uncertainty into something new. This is not about getting it right or proving that we're the "good" kind of racial justice organizer. It's about "training our intuition" into practices that resist racial oppression, chipping at the stone as many times as it takes to break it apart.
After the October training, hunderds of community members spoke up and asked for future trainings, further resources, and more opportunities for multi racial movement growth. Watching the courage and clarity of #blacklivesmatter, we also realize the value of space for growth and solidairty in service to the leadership of #blacklivesmatter and similar constellations to come.
In orde to do this, we have to get serious about resources. In order to create multi racial space for racial justice work, and in order to fund and resource organizers of color who are leading this same work in POC and Native-led spaces, we need ongoing financial contribution and new fundraising efforts.
Thank you, so much, to everyone who has already given and invested already in this work. In honor of those who have come before, we are reaching towards goal of $15,000 to further this work, and to co-fund community trainings by and for native folks and people of color.
Post on your facebook wall, ask your friends, make a contribution that is meaningful to you. Thank you thank you thank you.
With gratitude and appreciation,
Liz Loeb
Susan Raffo
Arif Mamdani
Ricardo Levins Morales
Trayvon Martin. Michael Brown. Eric Garner. We are mourning too many deaths. Every where you look – housing, jobs, education, health, policing – racial disparities are killing our communities.
Last October, over 200 community members, neighbors, and organizers held a new kind of solidarity training for people who identify as white who are doing racial justice work and multi-racial movement work on the ground. Facilitated by Liz Loeb, Ricardo Levins Morales, and Susan Raffo we came together to share our collective wisdom, experience, and love.
The training arose through a collaborative process of relationship building, and out of a life and death hunger for racial justice through practical action and structural change. We take as central the notion that in order to change the conditions of violence in which we live, we must be part of a movement led by people of color.
We know that to do that in a multi racial context, and in a way that works respects the soveriegnty of our native and indigenous comrades on whose land we live, we all have to walk with our fears and uncertainty into something new. This is not about getting it right or proving that we're the "good" kind of racial justice organizer. It's about "training our intuition" into practices that resist racial oppression, chipping at the stone as many times as it takes to break it apart.
After the October training, hunderds of community members spoke up and asked for future trainings, further resources, and more opportunities for multi racial movement growth. Watching the courage and clarity of #blacklivesmatter, we also realize the value of space for growth and solidairty in service to the leadership of #blacklivesmatter and similar constellations to come.
In orde to do this, we have to get serious about resources. In order to create multi racial space for racial justice work, and in order to fund and resource organizers of color who are leading this same work in POC and Native-led spaces, we need ongoing financial contribution and new fundraising efforts.
Thank you, so much, to everyone who has already given and invested already in this work. In honor of those who have come before, we are reaching towards goal of $15,000 to further this work, and to co-fund community trainings by and for native folks and people of color.
Post on your facebook wall, ask your friends, make a contribution that is meaningful to you. Thank you thank you thank you.
With gratitude and appreciation,
Liz Loeb
Susan Raffo
Arif Mamdani
Ricardo Levins Morales
Organizer
Liz Loeb
Organizer
Minneapolis, MN
