Take Em Down Nola
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Friends,
We have made tremendous progress in our struggle to force the City of New Orleans to live up to its December 2015 commitment to remove four confederate monuments. Only 1 of these hated statues has come down. Take Em Down NOLA is committed to getting the others down quickly and rid our city of all symbols and glorification of white supremacy. Whether they are statues, street or school names or parks.
The forces of white supremacy have descended upon our city openly brandishing weapons. Our city leaders had failed to enforce local ordinances against carrying weapons within 1000 feet of schools, churches or demonstrations or when intoxicated. Our organizing forced them to banish weapons last Sunday at our historic second line celebration.
Our work is far from over. We need your financial support. We produce educational materials and presentations in communities and schools, have an office, and organize public demonstrations. Our struggle is receiving notice from all around our city, the country and the world. We have begun planning a major national conference on struggles to remove white supremacist symbols in 2018.
To us these racist symbols are about more than the past. We also address the poverty, mass incarceration, gentrification and unemployment of the present. As one Black worker expressed it, “as long as these monuments are up its says it’s okay for Blacks to be at the bottom and whites at the top.”
Please help us – give generously – make history with us.
Rev. Avery Alexander, gone but never forgotten! This is for you.
We have made tremendous progress in our struggle to force the City of New Orleans to live up to its December 2015 commitment to remove four confederate monuments. Only 1 of these hated statues has come down. Take Em Down NOLA is committed to getting the others down quickly and rid our city of all symbols and glorification of white supremacy. Whether they are statues, street or school names or parks.
The forces of white supremacy have descended upon our city openly brandishing weapons. Our city leaders had failed to enforce local ordinances against carrying weapons within 1000 feet of schools, churches or demonstrations or when intoxicated. Our organizing forced them to banish weapons last Sunday at our historic second line celebration.
Our work is far from over. We need your financial support. We produce educational materials and presentations in communities and schools, have an office, and organize public demonstrations. Our struggle is receiving notice from all around our city, the country and the world. We have begun planning a major national conference on struggles to remove white supremacist symbols in 2018.
To us these racist symbols are about more than the past. We also address the poverty, mass incarceration, gentrification and unemployment of the present. As one Black worker expressed it, “as long as these monuments are up its says it’s okay for Blacks to be at the bottom and whites at the top.”
Please help us – give generously – make history with us.
Rev. Avery Alexander, gone but never forgotten! This is for you.
Organizer
Malcolm Suber
Organizer
New Orleans, LA
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