RESOURCES
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RESOURCES ☆
Abortion Rights: Readings & Resources*
After the Supreme court ruling on Friday, June 24, 2022, abortion will no longer protected at the federal level. This means it will be up to the States to decide if Abortion will be illegal and criminalized. Now is the time for community, mutual aid, and immediate action.
*updated regularly
Abortion Fund: Indigenous Women Rising
Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project
New Voices Pittsburgh: Women of Color for Reproductive Justice
The Brigid Alliance (for people who have to make long distance travels for abortions)
Petitions to Sign
[Less than 30 seconds]
The Action Pac - Justice for George Floyd
The Action Pac - Stand with Breonna
We the People - Justice for George Floyd
The Action Pac - Ahmaud Arbery
Change.org - Justice for Tony McDade
The Action Network - Tony McDade
Take the Pledge - Movement for Black Lives
White House Petition - Justice for George Floyd
Officers to be charged for murder after killing innocent black man
The Hands Up Act: Will Charge Police for Shooting Unarmed Citizens
Text “FLOYD” to 55156 to sign a separate petition with Color Of Change to demand justice for George Floyd.
Text “ENOUGH” to 55156 - demand justice for Breonna Taylor who was killed by police officers Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hankinson in her own home.
Text “JUSTICE” to 55156 - demand DA George Barnhill and Jackie Johnson are removed from office
Philippines Anti-Terror Bill
Background: the Philippines is set to prioritize an anti-terrorism bill, which will give the PH government access to red-tag anyone critical of the Duterte administration. The Duterte administration is known for its bloody war on drugs and high levels of corruption. Learn more about the Anti-Terror Bill here and how you can help thwart it
Donate
[any amount matters]
The action network - Support for Protesters in Atlanta
Justice for Breonna Taylor Fund
North Star Health Collective Fund
Justice for Regis Korchinski Family Fund
Solidarity Fund: Support Protestors in Atlanta
Gofundme raising money for Ahmaud Arbery’s mother, as well as his legal fund
Say Their Names: Emergency Protester's Fund
Black Lives Matter Houston Fund
National Police Accountability Project
Bail Funds
Louisville Community Bail Fund
Toronto Protestor Bail Fund for the family of Regis Korchinski
BIPOC LGBTQ+ funds
New Alternatives - LGBT Youth Fund
Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project (BLMP)
Homeless Black Trans women Fund
The Marsha P. Johnson Institute
Black Transwomen: Iyanna Dior Survivor Fund
Support Black Businesses
Mental Health & Wellness Funds
North Star Health Collective Fund
Mobile Outreach and Outdoor Drop-In (MOODI) Cultural Wellness Center
MIGIZI, Native American Youth Organization
U.K. and Europe-based organisations/funds
The Ubele Initiative’s fund supporting BAME communities who have lost loved ones due to COVID-19
Readings & Other Media
[for white/non-black people to unlearn anti-blackness]
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Performative political actions are a masquerade of allyship
The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Peggy McIntosh PDF
Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups
VIDEO: Prof. Ibram X. Kendi: Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
How to Be an Anti-racist by Prof. Ibram X. Kendi with Discussion Questions
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
Save the Tears: White Women’s Guide
White Guyde To The Galaxy: White Men’s Guide
On White Feminism and the Need for Intersectional Feminism
What Is a Microaggression? Everyday Insults With Harmful Effects
Other Readings & Media
On Intersectionality
Kimberlé Crenshaw: The urgency of intersectionality
Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality against Black Women Reading
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
Race & Policing
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
NYT: The Police Can’t Solve the Problem. They Are the Problem.
End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale Free Ebook
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Edited by Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan Price, Foreword by Alicia Garza [Free E-Book, available until June 6th]
Study Guide: A World Without Police
SPEECH: James Baldwin - Pin Drop Speech
Narrative Pieces
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Another Country by James Baldwin
Let's get to the root of racial injustice by Megan Ming Francis
Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? By Ibram X. Kendi
Slam Poetry + Films
Dear White America by Danez Smith
Angry Black Woman by Porsha O.
Tangled aka Rapunzel aka Long-Hair-Don’t-Care-And-What by Porsha O.
The 13th by Ava Duvernay [On Netflix]
I Am Not Your Negro James Baldwin Documentary
