Resources for Anti-Racist Action June 2020

Resources for Anti-Racist Action May-June 2020

This list was sourced from countless activists and information sharers. We thank you. It was created to support action and organizing for white-identified folks within the artEquity alumni network, so some resources speak specifically to white folks. However, EVERYONE is welcomed to utilize and share anything that is useful to your actions and organizing.

Demand change for BIPOC theatermakers. #weseeyou Read the letter, sign the petition.

DEMAND

Defund the police - https://defund12.org/ FROM MN: All officers were arrested. Minneapolis City Council votes to disband the police! Keep up the pressure there and in your own places!

Sign Color of Change petitions: For George Floyd, For Ahmaud Arbery, For Breonna Taylor
Sign Change.org petitions: For Tony McDade, For George Floyd, For Breonna Taylor, For Ahmaud Arbery, For David McAtee

Sign the petition and make calls to demand justice for Breonna Taylor
Theatres Not Speaking Out List (more from this project soon) / OpEd: Silence of White Theaters on Anti-Black Violence is Deafening

GIVE

To BIPOC-led movement organizations, BIPOC artists, BIPOC-led arts organizations, Trans and Queer BIPOC-led organizations in your area.
To justice-centered fundraising efforts in your area. Look for campaigns to support any Black-led businesses damaged during the protests. Mutual aid support. Support the long-time BIPOC-led organizing work present in your area - find out who they are if you don’t know.
To the ecosystem of organizations in the Movement for Black Lives

These Minneapolis groups (Black Visions Collective, Reclaim The Block and Minnesota Freedom Fund, Northstar Health Collective,) have said they have received significant support and they hope you will direct additional giving to the groups listed here.

To the people of color-led and multi-racial groups on the ground in Georgia where Ahmaud Arbery was murdered: Women on the Rise, Black Voters Matter, New Georgia Project, Southerners on New Ground, and the Southern Center for Human Rights

To groups in Louisville including: Stand Up Louisville supporting BLM, Louisville Community Bail Fund, Kentucky Alliance Against Racial and Political Repression, Showing up for Racial Justice Louisville,

Ways to support protestors in many cities, Bail Fund/Legal Help by City

FOLLOW racial justice organizations for updates and actions:

National: Movement for Black Lives (FB, Insta, Twitter), Showing Up for Racial Justice, Color of Change, NAACP, Southern Poverty Law Center
Black folks and anti-racist white folks: Nikkole Hannah-Jones, Ibram X Kendi, Rachel Cargle, Brittany Packnett, Ijeoma Oluo, Matt McGorry, Glennon Doyle, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Charles Blow

LEARN

There’s so much, right? We’re doing this all the time; it can never end. But it absolutely cannot be the only thing you do in this moment. Here are a few key recent articles and lists.

A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 “Fed-up”rising, Michael Harriet
Five Racist Anti-Racism Responses “Good” White Women Give to Viral -, Katie Anthony
An Open Letter to Arts Organizations Rampant with White Supremacy, Nana Chinara
An Antiracist Packet
“Remember, No One is Coming to Save Us” by Roxane Gay
BOOKS!

An “Ideal by NBC J.B. Bookshelf” list of anti-racist books
Free E-Book - The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
Understanding and Dismantling Racism: A Booklist for White Readers
10 Books About Race to Read Instead of Asking A Person of Color to Explain Things to You - Sadie Trombetta

How White People Conquered the Nonprofit Industry, Anastasia Reesa Tomkin
Podcasts:

The Conscious Kid
Abolition Study Resource List - Ashanté M. Reese
Anti-Racism Resources for White People
5 Ways White People Can Take Action in Response to White and State-Sanctioned Violence - SURJ
Letters for Black Lives
Talking About Race - National Museum of African American History & Culture
Older, but essential - Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex

Reach out to white family members or friends and ask them where they are at in response to these murders. If they are looking to action, do some action together. If they feel indifferent or unsure, ask them why and begin a conversation. If they don't know about it, help them learn.

TALK to your kids. Tell them about the murders that happened recently. Show them the Amy Cooper video and talk to them about how what she did was wrong, racist, and dangerous. Tell them that it’s important for white kids to know what’s going and for families to take anti-racist actions together. If people in your life are talking about the “violence” of protests, this resource from SURJ is a good guide.

SHOW UP

Showing Up for Racial Justice: White People's Work to End Racism
Tuesday, June 9th 8 ET / 7 CT / 6 MT / 5 PT
This is a webinar for folks who are newer to racial justice work and folks doing the work of bringing new white folks in. White people have an important role and responsibility for being part of a multi-racial movement to end racism and win collective liberation. Now is as good of a time as ever to join in this work or deepen your involvement in making the changes we so drastically need.
Register

GET INVOLVED

Follow the lead of the Movement for Black Lives (FB, Insta, Twitter).
Show up at your local protests, but do it in the best way possible. Follow the lead of Black folks. Watch for direction to put your body between the police and Black, Indigenous, People of Color - like this moment in Louisville. Think about these points. And these.
Join the SURJ Let's Collect Our Cousins (to Vote!) efforts
Look for police abolition work in your area.
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

What Else?

Please know, we are NOT pretending to be experts here. In fact, we would love to learn about other actions to take right now (and beyond). Any thoughts on next steps you are doing that we could join in on would be greatly appreciated. Make additions, comments/changes, or email wilhe.tj@gmail.com or johnrooneyta@gmail.com or mrobertson@artequity.org and we’ll add!