Feed #StrikeForBlackLives Protestors in DC
Support Local DC Black-owned Restaurants and Feed Protesters Striking for Black Lives
Welcome! As you may know, protesters under the leadership of local Black organizers will be striking on occupied Piscataway, Anacostan, and Pamunkey land in Washington, D.C. on Juneteenth to defund and abolish the police. Please view their website at https://strikeforblacklives.org.
We are a group of Asians, Asian Americans, and accomplices who are demonstrating in solidarity with these organizers and their demands by showing up in the way that many of us first learned to show love and care to our communities: through food.
We are abolitionists and believe that we can begin creating spaces that foster mutual aid and community care right now. We believe that solidarity is built on love and relational organizing.
Many of us are disabled, neurodivergent, and/or undocumented and understand that everyone has a role in the movement and that that role might not be on the front lines.
We are piloting an initiative that aims to honor the organizers and protesters who are fighting for collective liberation, their demands, calls from national leaders to invest in Black businesses, our own organizing principles, and food as both heritage and a tool for organizing around our collective liberation.
We are fundraising to purchase meals from local Black-owned restaurants in the DMV and deliver them to protesters. We are asking communities who are unable to participate in the strike to contribute.
This is intended to be a pilot to see if it makes sense to continue this work to support Black Lives Matter DC at future actions. After Juneteenth, we are happy to provide receipts and financial information to ensure your trust that 100% of the funds received (+ our own contributions) will be used to purchase meals from the following Black-owned restaurants for protesters on Juneteenth. If we raise more funds than we are able to spend in this timeframe, then we will redistribute those funds directly to the Black-led organizations who are organizing this strike.
Black-owned restaurants we are contacting to order meals (as of 1pm 6/18):
Sumah’s West African Restaurant & Carryout
NuVegan Cafe
Khepra's Raw Food Juice Bar
Sweet Sosumba Jamaican Vegan Cafe
Keren
Souk
Kitchen Jerk
Senbeb
Sankofa
Coffy Cafe
Evolve
Ghion Ethiopian Restaurant
Cane
Habesha Market
If you have any questions, concerns, or want to uplift a Black-owned restaurant in DC to order from, please fill out this contact form .
Demands of the Strike, from https://strikeforblacklives.org.
1. Defund the police
2. Defend Black Life
3. Stop Criminalizing protestors
4. Invest in violence interruption and prevention, mental health in schools, and public housing
5. Ban Stop And Frisk
6. Cops out of school
7. End cash bail in Maryland
8. Dissolve police unions
9. Decriminalize sex work
10. No new jails in DC
Organizers of the Strike, from https://strikeforblacklives.org.
Black Lives Matter DC
Black Lives Matter Louisville, KY
Anarchist Agency
Burgerville Workers Union
CISPES DC
Crew For A Traders Joe’s Union
Crimethinc
DC Freedom Fighters
Our Revolution DC
Philly Drivers Union
PNW Youth Liberation Front
Sunrise Movement DC
Sanctuary DMV
Shipt Shoppers
Shut Down DC
Whole Worker
Welcome! As you may know, protesters under the leadership of local Black organizers will be striking on occupied Piscataway, Anacostan, and Pamunkey land in Washington, D.C. on Juneteenth to defund and abolish the police. Please view their website at https://strikeforblacklives.org.
We are a group of Asians, Asian Americans, and accomplices who are demonstrating in solidarity with these organizers and their demands by showing up in the way that many of us first learned to show love and care to our communities: through food.
We are abolitionists and believe that we can begin creating spaces that foster mutual aid and community care right now. We believe that solidarity is built on love and relational organizing.
Many of us are disabled, neurodivergent, and/or undocumented and understand that everyone has a role in the movement and that that role might not be on the front lines.
We are piloting an initiative that aims to honor the organizers and protesters who are fighting for collective liberation, their demands, calls from national leaders to invest in Black businesses, our own organizing principles, and food as both heritage and a tool for organizing around our collective liberation.
We are fundraising to purchase meals from local Black-owned restaurants in the DMV and deliver them to protesters. We are asking communities who are unable to participate in the strike to contribute.
This is intended to be a pilot to see if it makes sense to continue this work to support Black Lives Matter DC at future actions. After Juneteenth, we are happy to provide receipts and financial information to ensure your trust that 100% of the funds received (+ our own contributions) will be used to purchase meals from the following Black-owned restaurants for protesters on Juneteenth. If we raise more funds than we are able to spend in this timeframe, then we will redistribute those funds directly to the Black-led organizations who are organizing this strike.
Black-owned restaurants we are contacting to order meals (as of 1pm 6/18):
Sumah’s West African Restaurant & Carryout
NuVegan Cafe
Khepra's Raw Food Juice Bar
Sweet Sosumba Jamaican Vegan Cafe
Keren
Souk
Kitchen Jerk
Senbeb
Sankofa
Coffy Cafe
Evolve
Ghion Ethiopian Restaurant
Cane
Habesha Market
If you have any questions, concerns, or want to uplift a Black-owned restaurant in DC to order from, please fill out this contact form .
Demands of the Strike, from https://strikeforblacklives.org.
1. Defund the police
2. Defend Black Life
3. Stop Criminalizing protestors
4. Invest in violence interruption and prevention, mental health in schools, and public housing
5. Ban Stop And Frisk
6. Cops out of school
7. End cash bail in Maryland
8. Dissolve police unions
9. Decriminalize sex work
10. No new jails in DC
Organizers of the Strike, from https://strikeforblacklives.org.
Black Lives Matter DC
Black Lives Matter Louisville, KY
Anarchist Agency
Burgerville Workers Union
CISPES DC
Crew For A Traders Joe’s Union
Crimethinc
DC Freedom Fighters
Our Revolution DC
Philly Drivers Union
PNW Youth Liberation Front
Sunrise Movement DC
Sanctuary DMV
Shipt Shoppers
Shut Down DC
Whole Worker
Organizer
Leo Liu
Organizer
Washington D.C., DC