Petitions
**Reminder never to donate money through CHANGE.ORG because it doesn’t go towards actual causes**
Ban the use of inhumane rubber bullets
Petitions Thread: Immigrants in ICE Detention Centers
Donating
The Okra Project: healthy, home-cooked meals for trans folks
LifeKitLA- Providing resources to unhoused folks
Act Blue’s Anti-Racist Donation Splitter
Act Blue’s Bail Fund Donation Splitter
Black-Owned Business Relief Fund on GoFundMe
Homeless Black Trans Women Fund
Thread of Gofundmes for trans women
Support Alibi, Manhattan’s Last-Standing Black-owned Queer Bar
GoFundMes for Protesters Victimized By Cops
Brandon Saenz- lost an eye and seven teeth after being shot in the face with a rubber bullet
Supporting Black Businesses
Black-Owned Cottagecore Businesses Thread
Black-Owned Independent Bookstores
Black-Owned Restaurants Bay Area
Google Docs/Collaborative Resources
Black Lives Matters Caard
#blacklivesmatter: petition, donation, protest resources, relevant police events, representative info
Support Black People Master Doc
Anti-Racism Resources for White People
Police Brutality On Twitter MegaDoc
Reading
A Thread Of Positive Change Caused By Protests
Critical Resistance: Abolish Policing
Building a Police-Free Future: Frequently Asked Questions
Campaign Zero ten steps to racial justice
The New York Times’ 1619 Project
Vogue, Elle, Buzzfeed and the New York Times anti-racist reading lists
Black History Month Library with free PDFs
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
Articles:
Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? by Ibram X. Kendi
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
Ferguson Isn’t about Black Rage Against Cops. It’s White Rage against Progress by Carol Anderson
Rev. Cecil ‘Chip’ Murray: The Reverend Who Led the Rebuilding of South L.A. After the 1992 Riots by Nadra Nittles
That time that NYPD went on strike and major crime reports dropped
Calling Your Representatives
Site for finding representatives’ emails
Minneapolis Mayor’s Office, Jacob Frey: 612.673.2100
Minneapolis District Attorney, Mike Freeman: 612.348.5550
Email template for writing MN officials to demand justice for George Floyd.
Template for writing to the chief of the Louisville Metro PD to demand justice for Breonna Taylor
Additional actions for Breonna Taylor
Template for writing to the Tallahassee Police Department or the Tallahassee Mayor John Dailey to demand justice for Tony McDade
Template you can send automatically to the Pardon & Parole Board on behalf of Julius Jones
The NAACP makes it easy to contact your congressional representatives for criminal justice reform.
People’s Budget LA // People’s Budget Survey
Call LA reps to ask them to reopen cooling centers for our unhoused neighbors