Thread by @ConMijente

¡Oye!

Latinx communities MUST show up powerfully right now.

We must go beyond hollow statements of solidarity & towards a genuine compañerismo.

We must take concrete action that goes beyond addressing intra-community anti-Blackness.

The time now calls for modeling pro-Blackness & an embodied sense that our fates are linked.

Our task is to stand shoulder to shoulder & put it out in the work.

Mijente stands with all Black communities across the country who are calling out the injustice of the state-sanctioned murder of Black people in the hands of the police.

Here’s what’s up: Most of our cities budgets are tangled in over-commitments to police. There are few mechanisms to bring justice to families who’ve been irrevocably harmed.

This is the time to join or start efforts to DEFUND THE POLICE in each of our cities

AND demand that those resources instead serve and protect our communities.

In the middle of a pandemic our families are dying while police budgets increase, which are used to surveil, criminalize, & kill our communities.

They’re flying surveillance drones over our people, using our tax dollars to pay tech companies to help them make algorithms to identify us....

buzzfeednews.com/article/caroli…

In Minneapolis, the city spends a quarter of tax-revenue on police funding. In most large cities, the chunk that the police budget takes up is way higher.

How much money does your city spend on its police budget?

We’re gathering names of people around the country who want to work on defunding their police & surveillance.

Add your name: action.mijente.net/petitions/i-wi…

This is, unfortunately and as it has always been, a long-term fight.

But we must fight.

As we mobilize to ask questions about our own cities, here are a couple of things we should also be doing:

Support the local demands. Sign Reclaim the Block’s petition urging MN city council to defund the police:

secure.everyaction.com/eR7GA7oz70GL8d…

Donate to organizations on the ground that are responding to the anti-Black violence. In Minnesota, bail is being raised by the Minnesota Freedom Fund:

minnesotafreedomfund.org/donate

Support pro-Black elected officials who are trying to change the anti-Black system of criminalization. Here are some District Attorney races that we identified:

@JosePGarza
@EliNSavit
@VBH4Prosecutor
@KimGardnerSTL
@alonzopayneCO

If you’re looking for Latinx/Chicanx political home that is pro-Latinx, pro-Black, pro-woman, pro-queer, pro-worker, pro earth, you’re Mijente.

Squad up and join us.

mijente.net

This is a difficult time, particularly for those who have direct experience w/police violence & criminalization. Many are holding pain & anger that gets added to the grieving we are already going through during this pandemic.

We stand w/ all Black communities across the country who are calling out the injustice of the state sanctioned murder of Black people in the hands of police.

Let’s show up for each other, hold each other, and focus our energy on targeting the systems of violence that are killing us.