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Akonadi Foundation
"All of our work at the Akonadi Foundation is guided by our vision for a racially just society. We dream of a day when all people, including youth and adults of color, enjoy the right to self-determination. When all peoples are respected and all cultures celebrated. When every community is safe, healthy and sustainable. A day when everyone has an opportunity to thrive." www.akonadi.org
#ReclaimMLK Actions Across the US
In cities across the nation, protestors took the streets with a call to reclaim Martin Luther King Jr’s legacy this holiday weekend. The actions were part of a coordinated effort, dubbed #ReclaimMLK on social media, that sought to build off of them momentum of last year’s rallies against police brutality.
Black Lives Matter, Today and Always: January 15 Highway Action Solidarity Statement
On January 15, 2015, A non-Black group of Pan-Asians, Latinos, and white people, some of whom are queer and transgender, linked their bodies together across the I- 93 highway in a highly coordinated action in Boston. This act of civic participation was [...]
#RECLAIMMLK
Martin Luther King Jr’s life’s work was the elevation, honoring, and defense of Black Lives. His tools included non-violent civil disobedience and direct action...This MLK weekend we will walk in the legacy of Dr. King and the movement that raised him. We will #ReclaimMLK
Black Lives Matter, Today and Always: January 15 Highway Action Solidarity Statement
On January 15, 2015, A non-Black group of Pan-Asians, Latinos, and white people, some of whom are queer and transgender, linked their bodies together across the I- 93 highway in a highly coordinated action in Boston. This act of civic participation was in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and Black people. Here is the solidarity statement.
OBS Launches Quality Policing Initiative
Our Quality Policing Initiative makes all five phases of policing authority—(1) recruitment, (2) training, (3) deployment, (4) accountability and (5) advancement—responsive to the communities that they are policing and to the elected officials who regulate and deploy them.
Take the Pledge to Support the Racial Justice Movement
Sign on to the pledge if you commit to fund at least one additional racial justice organization before the end of 2015, or to increase your giving to a racial justice group you already support.
Make 2015 the Year of Resistance.
We need a renewed commitment from you to take this to the next level. It's time to make 2015 the year of resistance. Take the pledge at FergusonAction.com.