Hello everyone, we're interrupting our regularly scheduled program to bring you a special issue dedicated to the ongoing fight for black lives happening in the US and across the world. Below you'll find links to bail funds, reading materials, wellness opportunities and other things you can use to contribute to the protest action currently happening in the US. We hope you'll use this as a handy guide to take action and contribute to the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
THE RECENT CASES
BAIL FUNDS
National Bail Fund Network: Directory of Community Bail FundsNational: Act Blue Bail Funds for ProtestorNational: The Bail ProjectAtlanta: Atlanta Solidarity Fund Los Angeles: Peoples City Council Freedom FundLos Angeles: BLM LA Action Bail FundLouisville: Louisville Community Bail Fund Minneapolis: Minnesota Freedom FundNew York: Free Them All For Public HealthNew York: Trans Emergency Release FundNew York: Bail Out NYPhiladelphia: Philadelphia Bail Fund
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Community Bail FundPhiladelphia: Amistad Law ProjectPhiladelphia: Decarcerate PARichmond: Richmond Mutual AidFor more cities check this list here.
DONATIONS
Black Visions CollectiveACT Blue Bail FundThe Black Film & TV CollectiveAssata's DaughtersBlack Journalists Therapy Relief FundOfficial George Floyd Memorial FundTony McDade's Family FundAhmaud Arbery's Family FundLouisville Mutual Aid
DEFUND THE POLICE PETITIONS
RESOURCES
Critical Race Theory Resource Folder: A Google drive full of reading and resources on critical race theory from Black, Indigenous, Latin American and Asian and Middle Eastern perspectives. Compiled by Haaniya Hangus.Ways You Can Help: A roundup of petitions, bail funds and donation pages you can contribute to.75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice: An article that is continually updated by and for white people looking to lend support to the movement at this moment in time.An introduction to police brutality: 100 Year Hoodie pulled together a site and collection of videos to help educate people in your community about why this is happening, and the very long history behind it.A list of black-owned bookstores: A roundup of U.S. black-owned independent bookstores you can support right now with your book ordersPolice Abolition: The Marshall Project provides a curated collection of links of news, reporting and essays on this specific moment. Support for DTLA Protesters (and beyond): The National Lawyers Guild of Los Angeles has a collection of ways you can help out in LA, and they're also offering a free Legal Observer trainings via Zoom, so that people can learn to deter and document excessive force and civil rights violations by police.
FILMS & DOCUMENTARIES
3 Brothers, Spike Lee (Twitter)13th, Ava DuVernay (Netflix)Whose Streets?, Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis (Hulu)I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck (Kanopy) If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins (Hulu)When They See Us, Ava DuVernay (Netflix)Problem Areas, Wyatt Cenac (Youtube)3 & 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets, Marc Silver (HBO)Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland, David Heilbroner & Kate Davis (HBO)If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise, Spike Lee (HBO)Class Divide, Marc Levin (HBO)Homecoming, Beyonce (Netflix)Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later, Brent Renaud & Craig Renaud (HBO)
READING
It Does Not Matter If You Are Good, Elle MagazineCops Are Always The Main Characters, VultureDonald Trump Is A Nazi. Full Stop., GENArmed Resistance In The Civil Rights Movement, The American ProspectDon't Fall For The Chaos Theory Of The Protests, The AtlanticOf Hoodies And Lost Time, NPR Code SwitchWhite Americans, Your Lack of Imagination Is Killing Us, The Washington PostWe Are The Governed. We No Longer Consent To Let The Police Kill Us, The Washington PostWant Police Reform? We Need Independent Medical Examiners and Coroners, The Washington PostThe Double Standard of the American Riot, The AtlanticWhy Police and Soldiers Love Frank Castle and "The Punisher", VulturePolice Brutality is a Public Health Crisis, VoxThe 1619 Project (all the articles), The New York Times MagazineA Decade of Watching Black People Die, NPR Code SwitchThe Police Don't Change, SlateThese Videos Show the Police Aren’t Neutral. They’re Counterprotesters., VoxWhy the Policing Problem Isn’t About “a Few Bad Apples”, VoxThe Case for Reparations, The Atlantic
WELLNESS
10 Minute Calming Yoga for Anger and FrustrationYoga For All with Jahmal ClemonsLiberate Meditation AppHeadspace Meditation App (currently free for many U.S. residents)Dropbox Care Package by Roxane GayInclusive TherapistsHeal HausSista AfyaDive in WellEthel's Club
Finally, if you're looking for concrete ways you can contribute to #blacklivesmatter, consider working through the action items in the #BirthdayForBreonna campaign. The initiative seeks to bring visibility to the case of Breonna Taylor and demand justice for her unjust death at the hands of the police.That's it for now. We'll be back next week. Keep fighting the good fight and make us proud.
Yelling about police brutality this time,
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