Minutes For Movements
Donativo protegido
Event Details:
My name is Grace Tame and I am a runner, sexual assault survivor advocate and proud community member. A believer in hope and solidarity. Every week I cover over 70 kilometres of trail and road tracks. Prior to returning to Australia recently, I won the Better World Running half-marathon in Santa Monica (15 March, 2020), racing with my running family, Ariel Adams, Leo Adame, Nora Siegler and Mackenzie Bland.
On Sunday, the 28th of June, 2020, myself and my cousin Eloise Warren ran for 437 minutes straight (7 hours, 17 minutes): one for every Indigenous Australian death in custody since 1991. We began running at 8.46am—in recognition of George Floyd and the broader global Black Lives Matter efforts—and finished just after 4.03pm. In that time, running side by side, we each covered 72.42 kilometres an exceeded our original fundraising goal of $5,000.
In light of the unprecedented level of support, we have decided to increase our goal. From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you all for your love and generosity.
We are raising money to be donated to three organizations; one local, one national and one global. Respectively, these are:
1. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre: a Tasmanian Aboriginal community organisation providing benevolent relief of poverty, sickness, destitution and distress to address disadvantage among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by any means possible. https://tacinc.com.au/
2. Sisters Inside: an independent community organisation which advocates for the collective human rights of women and girls in prison, and their families, with a strong focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, who are over overrepresented in prison due to the racism at the foundation of systems of control. https://sistersinside.com.au/
3. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund: America’s premier legal organisation fighting for racial justice. https://www.naacpldf.org/
Suggested donation thresholds are as follows:
(Any amount is greatly appreciated. No contribution is too small)
> $9 ($1 in memory of every Tasmanian Indigenous death in custody since 1991)
> $35 ($5 for every hour)
> $72 ($1 for every kilometre)
> $144 ($1 for every kilometre combined)
> $437 ($1 for every minute)
> $846 in memory of George Floyd
Follow us on Instagram (@Minutes4Movements), and tag yourself to share your love and active efforts for change on this community journey.
Background:
On Saturday June 7th, two of my dearest American running family members, Leo Adame and Ariel Adams, ran for 8 hours and 46 minutes straight in memory of George Floyd. In a matter of days, they raised over $4,000 for charity. With their encouragement, inspiration and support, we are hoping to replicate a similar event here, with a more local focus on Indigenous deaths in custody.
True to the defining principle of #LetHerSpeak, my ongoing goal is to platform the voices of others. Progress is born of the untold stories. Of the diversification of leadership. To move forward we must take guidance from those with expertise and lived experience.
I am privileged. In many ways—ways I am surely not even aware. And I know that as much as I have learned, and continue to learn, I will never be able to fully comprehend the immeasurable pain of racial discrimination. To understand something is to live and breathe it. As individuals we may not be able to speak on all causes. However, as a united collective we can always act in support of others among us.
From campaigning I have learned many valuable lessons. One being that there is always more work to be done. Injustices do not dissolve when the spotlight falters. They simply carry on in the darkness unless we maintain determination to end them indefinitely. We must persevere even when momentum is lost.
Another is that no contribution is too small. But by far the most important lesson of all is that when we connect with people in the spirit of love and togetherness to form a diversified but united community, nothing is impossible.
To make change, we have to get uncomfortable, and be prepared to remain so. To fight is to struggle. Activism means moving beyond safe conversations and entering the unknown.
As Christopher McDougall manifests in Born To Run, “The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other, but to be with each other”. The reason we live is to be together. To move together. To give and receive love. To fight together for an ever better future.
And so, we will keep moving. Forward. One step at a time. From Minute to Minute. Together.
Every. Minute. Counts.
My name is Grace Tame and I am a runner, sexual assault survivor advocate and proud community member. A believer in hope and solidarity. Every week I cover over 70 kilometres of trail and road tracks. Prior to returning to Australia recently, I won the Better World Running half-marathon in Santa Monica (15 March, 2020), racing with my running family, Ariel Adams, Leo Adame, Nora Siegler and Mackenzie Bland.
On Sunday, the 28th of June, 2020, myself and my cousin Eloise Warren ran for 437 minutes straight (7 hours, 17 minutes): one for every Indigenous Australian death in custody since 1991. We began running at 8.46am—in recognition of George Floyd and the broader global Black Lives Matter efforts—and finished just after 4.03pm. In that time, running side by side, we each covered 72.42 kilometres an exceeded our original fundraising goal of $5,000.
In light of the unprecedented level of support, we have decided to increase our goal. From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you all for your love and generosity.
We are raising money to be donated to three organizations; one local, one national and one global. Respectively, these are:
1. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre: a Tasmanian Aboriginal community organisation providing benevolent relief of poverty, sickness, destitution and distress to address disadvantage among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by any means possible. https://tacinc.com.au/
2. Sisters Inside: an independent community organisation which advocates for the collective human rights of women and girls in prison, and their families, with a strong focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, who are over overrepresented in prison due to the racism at the foundation of systems of control. https://sistersinside.com.au/
3. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund: America’s premier legal organisation fighting for racial justice. https://www.naacpldf.org/
Suggested donation thresholds are as follows:
(Any amount is greatly appreciated. No contribution is too small)
> $9 ($1 in memory of every Tasmanian Indigenous death in custody since 1991)
> $35 ($5 for every hour)
> $72 ($1 for every kilometre)
> $144 ($1 for every kilometre combined)
> $437 ($1 for every minute)
> $846 in memory of George Floyd
Follow us on Instagram (@Minutes4Movements), and tag yourself to share your love and active efforts for change on this community journey.
Background:
On Saturday June 7th, two of my dearest American running family members, Leo Adame and Ariel Adams, ran for 8 hours and 46 minutes straight in memory of George Floyd. In a matter of days, they raised over $4,000 for charity. With their encouragement, inspiration and support, we are hoping to replicate a similar event here, with a more local focus on Indigenous deaths in custody.
True to the defining principle of #LetHerSpeak, my ongoing goal is to platform the voices of others. Progress is born of the untold stories. Of the diversification of leadership. To move forward we must take guidance from those with expertise and lived experience.
I am privileged. In many ways—ways I am surely not even aware. And I know that as much as I have learned, and continue to learn, I will never be able to fully comprehend the immeasurable pain of racial discrimination. To understand something is to live and breathe it. As individuals we may not be able to speak on all causes. However, as a united collective we can always act in support of others among us.
From campaigning I have learned many valuable lessons. One being that there is always more work to be done. Injustices do not dissolve when the spotlight falters. They simply carry on in the darkness unless we maintain determination to end them indefinitely. We must persevere even when momentum is lost.
Another is that no contribution is too small. But by far the most important lesson of all is that when we connect with people in the spirit of love and togetherness to form a diversified but united community, nothing is impossible.
To make change, we have to get uncomfortable, and be prepared to remain so. To fight is to struggle. Activism means moving beyond safe conversations and entering the unknown.
As Christopher McDougall manifests in Born To Run, “The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other, but to be with each other”. The reason we live is to be together. To move together. To give and receive love. To fight together for an ever better future.
And so, we will keep moving. Forward. One step at a time. From Minute to Minute. Together.
Every. Minute. Counts.
Organizador
Grace Tame
Organizador
Tranmere TAS
