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InstaHub (company in Philadelphia) is fundraising to support the efforts fighting against systemic racism, social injustice, and the inherent brutality of American policing! Your contribution will be divided evenly between Unicorn Riot, Philadelphia Community Bail Fund, and similar groups.
InstaHub's mission of energy-conscious automation is grounded in a social responsibility to bring a greener world to all communities – including Black lives. Silence in the denial of human rights is complicity, and we as such unambiguously support the ongoing fight for racial justice, restate the fact that Black lives matter, and condemn the longstanding and well-documented mistreatment that police officers in America continue to impose on Black communities. More recently, the protests driven by community-led resistance movements against police brutality and sparked by the unjust murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Sean Reed in a long list of others have been subject to similar escalations of violence by law enforcement, with reports of police officers shooting rubber-jacketed metal bullets and tear gas at peaceful protestors, members of the press, and civilians on their own property. There is a clear systemic problem with law enforcement and police accountability in the United States, the full complex rendering of which is beyond the scope of this statement.
Here are some resources with more information:
- American police departments directly evolved from slave patrols and night watches, groups created to hunt and capture enslaved peoples in the 1800s (see: Slave Patrols and American Policing)
- White supremacists infiltrating law enforcement have been cited as an FBI concern since at least 2006 (see: White Supremacy & Law Enforcement)
- Current estimates are that Black people were ~24% of those killed by LEOs in the US despite being ~13% of the population in 2019 (see: Mapping Police Violence )
- A nonprofit, searchable journalistic archive of criminal justice and policing: The Marshall Project
Addressing these social problems requires a spectrum of strategies, including the support of those currently putting their bodies on the line in the cause of justice. We are seeking the direct involvement of our collective network to contribute to this cause through financial donations to supporting the struggle against police brutality and the racial injustice.
Technology, like all areas of modern life, was designed within and continues to sustain a wider structure of systemic inequalities along racial, gender, and class lines. Apoliticism is thus an impossibility -- to truly reach all people, it is our responsibility to address these and similar injustices wherever we can.
There are always ways to help and learn more. Additional resources & funds to support will be continually added to the live document below:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rr6hAgK7XWJThq8eWUDuFiPcaZaw4GJ10ifmYlwuXXk/edit?usp=sharing
InstaHub's mission of energy-conscious automation is grounded in a social responsibility to bring a greener world to all communities – including Black lives. Silence in the denial of human rights is complicity, and we as such unambiguously support the ongoing fight for racial justice, restate the fact that Black lives matter, and condemn the longstanding and well-documented mistreatment that police officers in America continue to impose on Black communities. More recently, the protests driven by community-led resistance movements against police brutality and sparked by the unjust murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Sean Reed in a long list of others have been subject to similar escalations of violence by law enforcement, with reports of police officers shooting rubber-jacketed metal bullets and tear gas at peaceful protestors, members of the press, and civilians on their own property. There is a clear systemic problem with law enforcement and police accountability in the United States, the full complex rendering of which is beyond the scope of this statement.
Here are some resources with more information:
- American police departments directly evolved from slave patrols and night watches, groups created to hunt and capture enslaved peoples in the 1800s (see: Slave Patrols and American Policing)
- White supremacists infiltrating law enforcement have been cited as an FBI concern since at least 2006 (see: White Supremacy & Law Enforcement)
- Current estimates are that Black people were ~24% of those killed by LEOs in the US despite being ~13% of the population in 2019 (see: Mapping Police Violence )
- A nonprofit, searchable journalistic archive of criminal justice and policing: The Marshall Project
Addressing these social problems requires a spectrum of strategies, including the support of those currently putting their bodies on the line in the cause of justice. We are seeking the direct involvement of our collective network to contribute to this cause through financial donations to supporting the struggle against police brutality and the racial injustice.
Technology, like all areas of modern life, was designed within and continues to sustain a wider structure of systemic inequalities along racial, gender, and class lines. Apoliticism is thus an impossibility -- to truly reach all people, it is our responsibility to address these and similar injustices wherever we can.
There are always ways to help and learn more. Additional resources & funds to support will be continually added to the live document below:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rr6hAgK7XWJThq8eWUDuFiPcaZaw4GJ10ifmYlwuXXk/edit?usp=sharing