The Movement for Black Lives is a fiscally sponsored 501c3 at the Alliance for Global Justice. To add your voice to our platform, write to community@forward.com. In Nevada, Leslie is leading the work to the end cash bail system in Nevada, decriminalize traffic offenses, and create a justice reinvestment model for communities impacted to benefit from money saved by criminal justice reforms in Nevada. This includes: Stay informed about our upcoming virtual events.

Meanwhile, cities are setting curfews that instill fear and criminalize our constitutional right to protest. She is currently a Staff Attorney with Disability Rights California. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2018, where she was a student organizer. Greenpeace is heeding the call of the Movement for Black Lives. We’re seeing that all too clearly right now, as militarized police forces use expensive equipment and weapons to terrorize protesters across the country, exemplifying the lawlessness and impunity that only police can get away with. Tool. More than that, if I am not going to act in the same manner as I do other organizations, what does that say about who I am and the strength of my character? ... We demand a divestment from the police and investment in Black communities. While he was the president of LSU BLSA, he served as a member of the Law Center's Diversity Task Force. She believes that disability justice, a practice that examines how disability intersects with other forms of oppression, is an essential component of Black liberation.

At the same time, Black communities have faced chronic disinvestment and racist policies, which have only served to widen the racial wealth and health gap, leaving Black families behind. Or were they talking about the foreign aid bill as a whole, which still makes up less than 1% of the federal budget? Earlier this week I was forced to ask myself the question, how can I engage with my students, almost all of who are black, around this platform? He is very excited to learn and grow in this fellowship process and can't wait to see what the future holds.

The crowd had gathered in response to an RTA officer's detention of an African-American teen for intoxication.

Zaina Alsous is an abolitionist, a daughter of the Palestinian diaspora, and a movement worker in South Florida. If this is about policy points, why single out the Jewish state?

I am proud to be an American, but don’t support all of the United States policies. Meanwhile, these same neighborhoods are being starved of basic infrastructure and services, such as housing, transit, education, and healthcare and subject to the life threatening impacts of climate change and environmental disasters. [23][24][25], On July 20, 2020, the Movement for Black Lives was one of 60 other groups, including several dozen trade unions, that organized the Strike for Black Lives. "[11], The movement's platform, published in August 2016, entitled "A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom and Justice," has six demands:[12][13], Shortly after the movement published its platform in 2016, 50 organizations had registered their support. Nzingha Hooker (most people call her Z) is a native of Baltimore, MD but grew up in Florence, SC. The Forward welcomes reader comments in order to promote thoughtful discussion on issues of importance to the Jewish community. She's currently an organizing member of the Dream Defenders, an editor, and a writer. Jill is committed to the work of eradicating systems and entities that threaten the self-determination of Black, LGBTQ+, and working-class communities and creating pathways to large-scale transformation. Leslie Turner is a Southern California native, but has lived in Nevada on and off since 2007 when she made her way back to the Valley to complete studies in criminal justice and sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. To stop receiving messages text STOP to 90975. Black humanity and dignity requires Black political will and power. As the Rev. Open letter to progressives: The ADL is not an ally. Scribe, the Forward’s curated contributor network, is a place we showcase personal experiences and perspective from across our Jewish communities. Various political organizations have stood in solidarity with MBL because, according to Democracy for America, it is seen as "an ideal catalyst for the substantive, results-oriented conversations the current and future leaders of the Democratic Party must have with the communities they serve".

Egregious commenters or repeat offenders will be banned from commenting. Most of her work as an attorney has been in direct services.

[35], "Democracy for America Endorses Movement for Black Lives Policy Platform; For Editor Vail (speech).

A cut in military expenditures and a reallocation of those funds to invest in domestic infrastructure and community well-being.

Since then, Jill's passionate advocacy for divestment from the state and investment in communities led to an appointment by Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to the Reimagine ACDC Taskforce to close and repurpose the Atlanta City Detention Center. Adkins goes on to say that Jewish America is a part of white America.

Our collective heartache, rage, and the outpouring of people-power is beginning to create real change. In these other movements and organizations I work hand in hand with the community and policy makers to try to create honest change. The Movement for Black Lives' call for criminal justice reform and the end of police brutality resonated with many advocacy groups. James left the SCHR in 2009 to study civil rights law at Georgetown University Law Center.

(Political power), This page was last edited on 27 September 2020, at 15:30. Stop Being So Arrogant, White Jews. Rashad eventually found BYP100 as their political home, and has been deeply invested in the Movement for Black Lives ever since. From mutual aid efforts to disaster relief, Black communities know what’s best for Black people.

We recognize that the Black and Jewish communities are inextricably linked and our struggles for social justice are connected."[27]. In many low-wage Black and brown communities, the largest state investment actually comes in the form of police, prisons, and high-tech surveillance infrastructure. I think it's dumb and disrespectful. We will never stop fighting for a green and peaceful future. If millions of people of conscience show up, if people like you speak out, 2020 could be a massive tipping point in the long arc towards racial justice. To protect Black lives and heal Black communities, we must divest from the police and invest in Black communities. The impact of these budgetary choices has largely affected Black, brown and poor neighborhoods, who have been structurally alienated from decision-making and dehumanized by narratives that paint them as dangerous and undeserving. Here you will find a wide array of writers — and non-writers — reflecting on Jewish issues, life-cycle events, spirituality, culture and more. To stop receiving messages text STOP to 90975. [10], The Movement for Black Lives was described by Professor of Politics Deva Woodly during the George Floyd protests as "an umbrella organization that consists of a coalition of movement organizations across the nation" which allowed people to "connect the dots between the symptoms of the present crisis and their structural causes. According to authorities, the teenager was unable to "care for himself" due to his level of intoxication, and thus the authorities thought it was necessary to take him into custody. The wide-ranging new platform of a coalition growing out of the Black Lives Matter movement includes harsh criticism of Israel, which it describes as an “apartheid state” that, it claims, perpetrates “genocide” against the Palestinian people, endorsing the Boycott, Divestment … For the terms and conditions of becoming a Scribe contributor, The retroactive decriminalization, immediate release and record expungement of all drug related offenses and prostitution, and reparations for the devastating impact of the “war on drugs” and criminalization of prostitution, including a reinvestment of the resulting savings and revenue into restorative services, mental health services, job programs and other programs supporting those impacted by the sex and drug trade.