Help Our Freedom Fighters Age With Dignity
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This holiday season, let's show our gratitude by raising $60,000 so elder Black Freedom activists, like my Aunt Pam, have the food, housing and medical care they need to thrive. Whether your donation is $10 or $10,000, the generosity is deeply appreciated. With $60K we could prevent evictions and provide home health care, food, and holiday help to five elder Black activists. All elders should be guaranteed basic care, and especially our elder activists who fought for our lives and freedom in undeclared wars against Black communities. They fought for our lives, don't let it cost them theirs.
Last month, one of my mother's best friends, Pam Hannah, was admitted to the hospital with severe Hyponatremia, a potentially fatal condition caused, in part, by malnutrition, among other issues. Only two weeks after being released from the hospital, she was re-admitted two days before Thanksgiving. My Aunt Pam is a veteran member of the Black Panther Party and has actively fought for Black human rights and freedom her entire life, alongside my mother Janet Cyril who died in 2005. Now, in order for her to live at home, my aunt Pam urgently needs at least $10,000 to support extra home care, cleaning, and more to supplement what our failed State has neglected to offer.
My Auntie Pam is not alone. Ramona Africa, a member of MOVE, the Philadelphia based Black organization bombed by police in 1985 is also aging and in need of support. When you live on freedom's frontline, there is no pension, no retirement and the only safety net is the one the movement offers.
Baba Sekou Odinga is a former member of the Black Panther Party incarcerated as a political prisoner for decades, yet he continues to struggle for our collective freedom and deserves our help and support too.
Bullwhip Cyril Innis Jr. and Yasmeen Majid are among dozens of aging Black activists who dedicated their lives to the freedom of all Black people, and they aren't the only ones.
That's why this holiday fundraising drive hosted by me, my sister Sala, Pam's daughter Ksisay and my friends and movement kin, Monifa and Lumumba Bandele, strives to raise enough money to support the beautiful Black lives of up to 10 elder Black activists. I hope can turn this into a longer term effort to provide movement elders a safety net, even if we have to weave it with our own hands. I know we can, because can do anything.
Last month, one of my mother's best friends, Pam Hannah, was admitted to the hospital with severe Hyponatremia, a potentially fatal condition caused, in part, by malnutrition, among other issues. Only two weeks after being released from the hospital, she was re-admitted two days before Thanksgiving. My Aunt Pam is a veteran member of the Black Panther Party and has actively fought for Black human rights and freedom her entire life, alongside my mother Janet Cyril who died in 2005. Now, in order for her to live at home, my aunt Pam urgently needs at least $10,000 to support extra home care, cleaning, and more to supplement what our failed State has neglected to offer.
My Auntie Pam is not alone. Ramona Africa, a member of MOVE, the Philadelphia based Black organization bombed by police in 1985 is also aging and in need of support. When you live on freedom's frontline, there is no pension, no retirement and the only safety net is the one the movement offers.
Baba Sekou Odinga is a former member of the Black Panther Party incarcerated as a political prisoner for decades, yet he continues to struggle for our collective freedom and deserves our help and support too.
Bullwhip Cyril Innis Jr. and Yasmeen Majid are among dozens of aging Black activists who dedicated their lives to the freedom of all Black people, and they aren't the only ones.
That's why this holiday fundraising drive hosted by me, my sister Sala, Pam's daughter Ksisay and my friends and movement kin, Monifa and Lumumba Bandele, strives to raise enough money to support the beautiful Black lives of up to 10 elder Black activists. I hope can turn this into a longer term effort to provide movement elders a safety net, even if we have to weave it with our own hands. I know we can, because can do anything.
Fundraising team: Black Love Dream Team (2)
Malkia Devich Cyril
Organizer
Oakland, CA
Sala Cyril
Team member
