Black Liberation Fund
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Support our work. Make a donation to support the local Black Lives Matter organizers that have been working tirelessly to document and fight against institutional and interpersonal racism since our founding in 2015.
As the country is responding to the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Flloyd, Tony McDade, and Nina Pop we need to remember that Black people are suffering from these same issues right here in Rockland, Dutchess, Orange, Ulster, Sullivan, and Westchester counties.
In March of 2020 we lost Tyrell "Rex" Fincher to police violence in the city of Newburgh. In the winter of 2019 Police brutalized a group of young Black students at a ball game in Middletown from City of Newburgh. In 2018 police brutalized two Black girls, sisters, on their way home from school in the city of Poughkeepsie. One of the girls sustained a concussion during the altercation that was caught on videotape by onlooking peers. To date, the police actively harass these children and their families.
These are just a few examples of cases that we have documented in just the last 8 months. We have actively worked with community members to fight for justice when it is possible because of the types of consequences that Black people face when they fight against police, racist employers, or racist institution is real. We don't receive justice in this unjust system, just backlash. We work with community members that are willing to fight for justice when fighting for justice is hard.
Sustaining the fight against systemic racism is hard. Our Black lead collective has done it for years under the banner of BLM HV as a network since 2015 but all of our members have been fighting against anti-Black racism personally and professionally for a combined over 60 years.
A donation to the BLM HV chapter will go to support organizes with stipends, it will go to supporting organizers working to address the needs of the community in the form of mutual aid, it will go to support the on-going leadership development of community members that learning how to community organize.
As the country is responding to the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Flloyd, Tony McDade, and Nina Pop we need to remember that Black people are suffering from these same issues right here in Rockland, Dutchess, Orange, Ulster, Sullivan, and Westchester counties.
In March of 2020 we lost Tyrell "Rex" Fincher to police violence in the city of Newburgh. In the winter of 2019 Police brutalized a group of young Black students at a ball game in Middletown from City of Newburgh. In 2018 police brutalized two Black girls, sisters, on their way home from school in the city of Poughkeepsie. One of the girls sustained a concussion during the altercation that was caught on videotape by onlooking peers. To date, the police actively harass these children and their families.
These are just a few examples of cases that we have documented in just the last 8 months. We have actively worked with community members to fight for justice when it is possible because of the types of consequences that Black people face when they fight against police, racist employers, or racist institution is real. We don't receive justice in this unjust system, just backlash. We work with community members that are willing to fight for justice when fighting for justice is hard.
Sustaining the fight against systemic racism is hard. Our Black lead collective has done it for years under the banner of BLM HV as a network since 2015 but all of our members have been fighting against anti-Black racism personally and professionally for a combined over 60 years.
A donation to the BLM HV chapter will go to support organizes with stipends, it will go to supporting organizers working to address the needs of the community in the form of mutual aid, it will go to support the on-going leadership development of community members that learning how to community organize.
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Rae Leiner
Organizer
Newburgh, NY
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