As organizations striving for climate justice and environmental protection, we cannot be silent in the face of the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and countless others. This moment has laid bare the long and shameful history of institutional and systemic racism against Black and Brown people in this country. We demand action.

We stand in solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) and endorse the following demands and the M4BL week of action.

We will advocate for these demands, and we will engage our supporters, members, and allies to take action to confront the police violence, inequality, and racism plaguing this country.

TAKE ACTION: https://m4bl.org/week-of-action/

*** WE DEMAND THE RIGHTS OF PROTESTORS BE PROTECTED ***
We demand that no harm come to protestors. Violations of property should never be equated with the violation of human life. We demand that local and state officials ensure that there are no abuse of powers and no use of lethal force on protestors.

*** WE DEMAND A DIVESTMENT FROM THE POLICE AND INVESTMENT IN BLACK COMMUNITIES: WE DEMAND LOCAL SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES, AND ALL PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS CUT TIES WITH THE POLICE ***
We call on localities and elected officials across the country to divest resources away from policing in local budgets and reallocate those resources to the healthcare, housing and education our people deserve. More officers, guns, jails, and prisons are not a solution to longstanding problems of racial disparities, injustice, and police violence. We demand police-free schools across the country and an end to the use of police officers in public universities. All public institutions designed to serve the people must cut ties with the police in the interest of public safety.

*** WE DEMAND IMMEDIATE RELIEF FOR OUR COMMUNITIES ***
We demand the federal government provide direct cash payments, rent cancellation, mortgage cancellation, a moratorium on utility and water shutoffs, and a cancellation of student, medical, and other forms of debt. We demand long-term economic solutions like a Universal Basic Income, in order to address the immediate crisis and pave the way for a just recovery that doesn’t prioritize corporations and leave our communities behind. Support the families and the lives of those we have lost and those struggling to survive now.

*** WE DEMAND COMMUNITY CONTROL ***
The most impacted in our communities need to control the laws, institutions, and policies that are meant to serve us — from our schools to our local budgets, economies, and police department.

*** WE DEMAND AN END TO THE WAR AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE ***
We demand an end to the criminalization, incarceration, and killing of our people. We call for not just individual accountability of officers after a murder, but entire police departments. Make it clear that we are done being killed at the hands of anti Blackness and white supremacy. Target your elected officials and those that lead institutions like schools, hospitals, and universities to cut ties with the police.

Signatories:

ActionAid USA
Alliance for Climate Education
Alliance to Protect Our People and the Places We Love
Amazon Watch
Animals Are Sentient Beings

Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Azul
Bates Environmental Coalition
Beautiful Trouble
Berks Gas Truth

Better Future Bangladesh
Better Future Project
Better Path Coalition
Beyond Extreme Energy
Big Reuse

Black Millennials 4 Flint
Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project
Bold Nebraska
Breast Cancer Action
Brighter Green

Build a Movement 2020
Calhoun County Resource Watch
Call to Action Colorado
Care About Climate
CatholicNetwork.US

Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church Environmental Justice Ministry
Center for Biological Diversity
Center for Climate Integrity
Center for Coalfield Justice
The Center For Cultural Power

Center for Food Safety
Center for International Environmental Law
Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
Center for Sustainable Economy
Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War

Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Chispa
Church Women United in New York State
Citizens Awareness Network
cityWILD

The CLEO Institute
Climate Action Coalition
The Climate Center
Climate Disobedience Center
Climate Finance Action

Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy
Climate Hawks Vote
The Climate Mobilization
The Climate Museum
Climate NOW

Climate Parents
Climate Power 2020
The Climate Ribbon
ClimateMama
Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes

CODEPINK Women for Peace Golden Gate
ColombiaConexion SF Bay
Communities Responding to Extreme Weather
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
Connecticut Citizen Action Group

Continental Divide Trail Coalition
Corazon Latino
Corporate Accountability
Data for Progress
Delaware Riverkeeper Network

The Democracy Collaborative
Divest Ed
Divest Princeton
DNC Environmental and Climate Crisis Council
Dogwood Alliance

Don't Waste Michigan
Down to Earth Storytelling
Dream Corps
Earth Action
Earth Day Initiative

Earth in Brackets
Earth Is `Ohana
Earth Ministry / Washington Interfaith Power & Light
Earthworks
ecoAmerica

EcoBirth
Ecoinclusive
EcoLatinos
Eco-Poetry
Elders Climate Action

Endangered Species Coalition
Environmental Investigation Agency
Environmental Leadership Program
EPCF
Escambia County Democratic Environmental Caucus

Extinction Rebellion DC
Extinction Rebellion New Orleans
Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area
Extinction Rebellion Tampa Bay
Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition

Faithful America
Fire Drill Fridays
Food & Water Action
Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station
Fossil Free California

Frack Free New Mexico
FracTracker Alliance
Friends of the Earth
Georgia Interfaith Power & Light
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives

Global Witness
Great Old Broads for Wilderness
Greater Birmingham Alliance to Stop Air Pollution
Green Amendments For The Generations
Green Education and Legal Fund

Green For All
Green Team NV
Green 2.0
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice
Greenbelt Climate Action Network

GreenFaith
GreenLatinos
Greenpeace USA
Healthy Gulf
Heirs To Our Oceans

Hip Hop Caucus
HoCo Climate Action
Hollywood United for a Healthy California
Human Impacts Institute
Idle No More SF Bay

Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition
Indigenous Environmental Network
Inland Ocean Coalition
Institute for Policy Studies Climate Policy Program
Interfaith Power & Light

Justice Action Mobilization Network
JustME for JustUS
Keepers of the Athabasca Watershed Society
Labor Network for Sustainability
Last Chance Alliance

The Last Plastic Straw
The Leap
Lonely Whale
Maine Environmental Changemakers
Maine Environmental Education Association

Maine Youth for Climate Justice
Majority Action
Metro NY Catholic Climate Movement
Montgomery Citizens United for Prosperity
Mosaic

Mosquito Fleet
Mothers Out Front
Movement Rights
NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program
National Children's Campaign

The Natural History Museum
Nature Coast Conservation
Neighborhood Tree Health
Network of Holistic Activists
Newark Science and Sustainability

Next100 Coalition
No Coal No Gas
Noble Renewables Group of the West
Nonviolent Citizen Action
North American Climate, Conservation and Environment

North American Water Office
North Omaha Neighborhood Alliance
Nuclear Energy Information Service
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
The Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project

The Oakland Institute
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Oil Change International
Okaloosa County Environmental Caucus
On Behalf of Planet Earth

Our Climate
Pacific Environment
Partnership for Southern Equity
Pasco Activists
Peace Action

Peace Action New York State
Peak Plastic Foundation
People Demanding Action
Peoples Climate Movement NY
Physicians for Social Responsibility

Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles
Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania
Plastic Pollution Coalition
Plymouth Friends for Clean Water
Polluters Out

Popular Resistance
Power Shift Network
Presente.org
Progressive Democrats of America
Progressive Peace Coalition

Project CoffeeHouse
Property Rights and Pipeline Center
Public Citizen
Radiation Truth
Rainforest Action Network

RapidShift
Re-Earth Initiative
Regenerative Solutions
Responsible Drilling Alliance
Revitalization Strategies

River Guardian Foundation
RootsAction
Rootskeeper
San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper
SanDiego350

Seeding Sovereignty
Sierra Club
ShutDownDC
Society of Alternative Resources
Sol Nation

Solstice Initiative
The Solutions Project
Stand.earth
Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion
Stop Fracked Gas PDX

Stop Zenith Collaborative
The Story of Stuff Project
Suncoast Climate Justice Coalition
Sunflower Alliance
Sunrise Movement

Sunrise Movement Dallas
Sunrise Movement Milwaukee
Sunrise Project
Sustainable Energy & Economy Network
SustainUS

Three Mile Island Alert
Tinker Tree Play/Care
Toxics Action Center
The Trail Posse
Transition Town Media

Union of Concerned Scientists
UPSTREAM
U.S. Climate Action Network
VISIÓN Coalition
Wall of Women

Waterspirit
WE ACT for Environmental Justice
West Atlanta Watershed Alliance
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Western Environmental Law Center

Women's Earth and Climate Action Network
WildEarth Guardians
Women's Environment and Development Organization
The YEARS Project
Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines

Youth Outside
Zero Hour
198 methods
1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations
350 Bay Area

350 Butte County
350 Colorado
350 Columbia
350 DC
350 Eastside

350 Fairfax
350 Massachusetts
350 New Hampshire
350 New Orleans
350 Seattle

350 Spokane
350 Wichita
350.org
350PDX
5 Gyres Institute

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