A new thing I’ve been doing, when I become overwhelmed with all the bad news, is to find the people and groups that are doing good work.
So as a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Ferguson, here are links and resources to people who are doing good anti-racism work, and also ways to keep up with and support the ongoing work in Missouri.
#Ferguson:
Stay connected to the movement – sign up for the newsletter, and every day you’ll get an email like this one, filled with links and news related to the goings on both in Ferguson and nationally.
Donate to the Legal Support Fund for Justice for Mike Brown – Protestors are being (often illegally) arrested and slapped with incredibly high bonds. This fund helps get them out of jail and provide for their legal support.
Follow these people on Twitter:
And of course, if you haven’t yet, watch this Requiem for Mike Brown.
Anti-Racism Organizations:
YWCA Racial Justice & Civil Rights – Check out your local branch.
Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice ‘inspires, educates, and mobilizes people to unite across differences and to act from their shared ethical and spiritual values in pursuit of peace with social and environmental justice.’
Women Donors Network Racial Justice Working Group ‘We have to live our values. The Racial Justice Working Group serves to bring our commitment to racial justice to everything WDN does and to create opportunities to deepen the focus on racial justice within WDN and among our partners. ‘
United for Peace and Justice ‘Together we are working to end war and oppression, shift resources toward human needs, protect the environment and promote sustainable alternatives. Our long-term goal is to grow a culture of justice, peace, equality, cooperation and respect.’
Anti-Racist Alliance ‘a movement for racial equity. We are an organizing collective of human service practitioners and educators whose vision is to bring a clear and deliberate anti-racist structural power analysis to social service education and practice.’
Racial Equity Institute ‘an alliance of trainers and organizers who have devoted themselves to the work of anti-racist transformation.’ (Thanks to Rebecca for this one!)
Crossroads Antiracism Organizing and Training ‘Recognizing that racism goes beyond personal prejudice, Crossroads offers a distinctive Power Analysis of how racism functions in institutions, and offers tools to create antiracist transformation.’
A long list of more groups that do anti-racism work
A few localized organizations (google groups in your area!):
Organizing Against Racism -North Carolina – ‘To create real racial equity, we must learn how to deconstruct historical, cultural and institutional racism and build something new and revolutionary in its place.’
Peace and Justice Center – Vermont – ‘Our mission is to create a just and peaceful world. To this end, we work on the interconnected issues of economic and racial justice, peace, and human rights through education, advocacy, training, non-violent activism and community organizing.’
Eliminating Racism And Claiming/Celebrating Equality: ERAC/CE – Michigan – trains ‘organizations to better understand and recognize racism and to work together to eliminate it.’
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