ACTION ON RACISM RESOURCES, Page 1
NOTE: The materials found on these pages are public domain sources and posted are here to allow for your individual review and determination of actions that you as a person against racism (an anti-racist) can take to assist bringing about its eventual and destined eradication from society everywhere. The materials/suggestions listed here are not encouraged or discouraged, endorsed or not endorsed, by any official institution of the Baha’i Faith.
-HOWARD COUNTY MARYLAND WEBSITE
https://www.howardcountymd.gov/
Find schedules/addresses for public meetings with the various elected county government officials/Boards so that you can attend to raise your voice/write a letter as a tax paying citizen that all discriminatory policies of policing, medicine, economics, education, and more, are eliminated from any county law or ordinance.
-75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
Corinne Shutack Aug 13, 2017 · (NOW UP TO 97 Things)
https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234
Note 1: This article is continually updated to ensure each item is accurate and needed today.
Note 2: Achieving racial justice is a marathon, not a sprint. Our work to fix what we broke and left broken isn’t done until Black folks tell us it’s done.
Google whether your local police department currently outfits all on-duty police officers with a body-worn camera and requires that the body-worn camera be turned on immediately when officers respond to a police call. If they don’t, write to your city or town government representative and police chief to advocate for it. The racial make-up of your town doesn’t matter — This needs to be standard everywhere. Multiply your voice by soliciting others to advocate as well, writing on social media about it, writing op-eds, etc.
Google whether your city or town currently employs evidence-based police de-escalation trainings. The racial make-up of your town doesn’t matter — This needs to be standard everywhere. Write to your city or town government representative and police chief and advocate for it. Multiply your voice by soliciting others to advocate as well, writing on social media about it, writing op-eds, etc.
More and more stories of black folks encountering racism are being documented and shared through social media — whether it’s at a hotel, with the police, in a coffee shop, at a school, etc. When you see such a post, call the organization, company, or institution involved to tell them how upset you are. Then share the post along with the institution’s contact information, spreading the word about what happened and encouraging others to contact the institution as well. Whether the company initiated the event or failed to protect a POC during an onslaught by a third party, they need to hear from us.
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-How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
(book purchase)
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. Ibram X. Kendi's incendiary polemic is stirring, provocative and impossible to ignore. Here he explains why it's not enough to simply say you're not racist. Discover the book here: http://bit.ly/2KBWrxh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OXMgA0Fwsk&feature=youtu.be
-11 Things You Can Do To Help Black Lives Matter End Police Violence
Yes, you can help out today.
MAY 28, 2020
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/support-the-black-lives-matter-movement
Often times, looking at all the vast problems engulfing our society, it's easy to feel inconsequential in the bigger picture. When we hear about wars, conflicts, uprisings, riots, murders, and so on, it can make us feel like there's nothing we can do to fight the enormity of it as one person. That's natural, but it should also be known that some of the world's most special achievements were all done by regular people who decided that inaction was simply unacceptable. We all collectively contribute to the world outside of our doors and if we don't like what we're seeing, we can either add to the world by doing our small part to improve society, or we can do nothing and sit back and watch as things get worse, hoping one day that the problem doesn't come to our door.
-CAMPAIGN ZERO: WE CAN END POLICE VIOLENCE IN AMERICA
https://www.joincampaignzero.org/#vision
We can live in a world where the police don't kill people by limiting police interventions, improving community interactions, and ensuring accountability.
It will take deliberate action by policymakers at every level of government to end police violence.
***SEE ALL ACTIONS LISTED ON CZ WEBPAGE***
Demand Action from Your Representatives
FIND YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVES AND DEMAND ACTION TO END POLICE VIOLENCE
Lookup your state and federal representatives and tell them to pass the legislation immediately to end police violence. Share the Campaign Zero policy agenda with them and urge them to adopt it in your community.
-National Center For Race Amity
Towards E Pluribus Unum – “Out of Many, One”
The National Center for Race Amity (NCRA) develops forums and initiatives to advance cross-racial and cross-cultural amity that impact the public discourse on race.
Race Amity
The NCRA overall mission has the cultivation of race amity as its key tool as well as its end goal in advancing access, equity, social justice and unity.
https://raceamity.org/
-BLACK LIVES MATTER!
https://blacklivesmatter.com/
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
We are expansive. We are a collective of liberators who believe in an inclusive and spacious movement. We also believe that in order to win and bring as many people with us along the way, we must move beyond the narrow nationalism that is all too prevalent in Black communities. We must ensure we are building a movement that brings all of us to the front.
We affirm the lives of Black queer and trans folks, disabled folks, undocumented folks, folks with records, women, and all Black lives along the gender spectrum. Our network centers those who have been marginalized within Black liberation movements.
We are working for a world where Black lives are no longer systematically targeted for demise.
We affirm our humanity, our contributions to this society, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression.
The call for Black lives to matter is a rallying cry for ALL Black lives striving for liberation.
-So You Want to Talk about Race
by Ijeoma Oluo (book purchase)
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/so-you-want-to-talk-about-race-ijeoma-oluo/1126365130;jsessionid=74B304D9CFD31DD3D7488DD2D34C8311.prodny_store01-atgap10?ean=9781580058827
Overview
Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy—from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans—has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about. How do you tell your roommate her jokes are racist? Why did your sister-in-law take umbrage when you asked to touch her hair—and how do you make it right? How do you explain white privilege to your white, privileged friend?
In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.
"Oluo gives us—both white people and people of color—that language to engage in clear, constructive, and confident dialogue with each other about how to deal with racial prejudices and biases."
—National Book Review