Get Informed, Get Involved
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Consider who is in control of the narrative and what voices are being silenced and/or distorted. Consider how the media inaccurately portrays the actions and voices of the people on the streets. Consider how performative allyship plays out over and over again through pledges, taking a knee, uploading a black square to show "solidarity" with Black Lives Matter. Consider all the communities that have faced systemic oppression for centuries, the same communities that local representatives and police departments claim to "protect and serve." We demand actionable changes NOW. We are NOT asking, we are DEMANDING for LIBERATION NOW for Black people and all marginalized communities that have been oppressed, murdered, exploited, under-resourced, over-policed, silenced for FAR TOO LONG.
Find upcoming Bay Area Protests Here
What indigenous land do you occupy? Find out Here. Learn about territory acknowledgement Here
Community Organizations
ACTIVISM
San Jose Peace and Justice Center Website Here, Read their Blog Here
Find Resources from San Jose Strong Here & their project Support Our International Students Here
Silicon Valley Debug, Read Stories Here. Read the Letter from SJ Families to the City of SJ Here​
Get Involved in MAIZ San Jose Here
Connect with VietUnity Southbay Here
Learn About Southeast Asians Diaspora Projects (SEAD) Here
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SUSTAINABILITY & WELLNESS
BIPOC-led garden projects & learning resources Here
Learn about Hood Herbalism Here
Learn about Nalgona Positivity Pride (support for POC with eating disorders) Here
San José City & Related Information
Learn about Redlining in San José Here
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Watch City Council Meetings Live (Regularly on Tuesdays 11am) Here
Find Meeting Calendar and Agendas Here
Find your district and council member Here
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Read Mayor Liccardo's June Budget Message Here
Read the San Jose Budget Documents 2020-21 Here
Read "Equity Review of the 2020-21 Proposed Budget" Memo (May 2020) Here
Read SJ Councilmember "Equity Fund Proposal" Memo (April 2019) Here
Read About the Equity Pledge Signed by Santa Clara Lawmakers Here
Read David Sykes Curfew Declaration Here
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What's the Peace Officer Bill of Rights? Read it Here
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Report Police Misconduct in San Jose Here
COVID-19
Read about how COVID-19 impacts SJ's poor Latinx communities Here
Read about the disproportionate impact of COVID on Sacramento's Black Community Here
Watch a video compilation of corporate commercials in response to COVID-19 Here
Educate Yourself
Collection of audio/visual content from radical organizations/movements Here
Read Jstor's Resources on Institutionalized Racism Here
Read "Black Berets for Justice" Theses by Arturo Villarreal Here
Find Resources from "POOR Magazine" Here
Guide to Allyship Here
If You're New to Abolition Study Guide Here
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Things to research if you do not know about them:
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List of Civil Unrest in the US Here
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Tuskegee syphilis experiment, Tulsa's Black Wall Street, Jim Crow Laws, Rosewood Massacre
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Environmental Racism, Standing Rock, Stand With Moana Kea
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Black Panthers, Brown Berets, Black Berets
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Terms: Anti-blackness, Colorism, Microagressions, Decolonization, Implicit Bias, Intersectionality, Redlining, Eugenics, Prison Industrial Complex
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Blueprints for Police-Free Communities
Learn about Dignity in Schools Here
Learn about No Cop Academy Here
Learn about Care Not Cops Here
Learn about Durham Beyond Policing Here
Learn about Defund OPD Here
Learn about the Anti Police Terror Project Here
Learn about Minneapolis Reclaim the Block Here