AHR Is Working Toward Racial Justice: Resource Library & Upcoming Calls
Published on July, 43 2020
Photo Credit: Mike Shaheen. Creative Commons 2.0
By Martha Collins, Setou Ouattara, and Valarie Young
Advancing Human Rights (AHR) Chairs
July 2020
Enough is enough! We stand in solidarity with the protestors of police brutality and systemic racism calling to defund the police, because Black Lives Matter. We must defund the police and shift the money to public health and mental health services, housing, and other human needs.
Join the fight for racial equality, confront our nation’s history of racial bigotry and begin the era of truth and justice. Now is the time we all stand together.
Read the WILPF US Statement on the Murder of George Floyd and the Calls for Change.
You are invited to join our monthly call by registering here. Calls start at 8 pm ET, 5 pm PT. Upcoming dates are Thursday July 16th, Thursday August 20th, & then the first Thursday of each month thereafter.
Below you will find the beginning of the Advancing Human Rights (AHR) Resource Library. Included are videos, documentaries, books, audio books, audio presentations, articles, and social media posts to support working toward racial & social justice.
Video (51 minutes): Carol Anderson Presentation on White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation's Divide
Book: White Rage by Carol Anderson
Audiobook: White Rage (audiobook)
Book: The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Audiobook: The Color of Law (audiobook)
Video (2 minutes): The Legacy of Racial Injustice is a powerful video by the Equal Justice Initiative.
Video Documentary (90 minutes): Slavery by Another Name This documentary challenges one of Americans’ most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation.
Video (42 Minutes): Ajamu Baraka & Margaret Kimberley: How to Make Peace an Election Issue
Audio Presentation (20 minutes):Police Must Answer to the Community / Black Agenda Report Young people are demanding the Community Control of Police. This is ushering in a new stage of the struggle, in which these young people are imagining a world free of Imperialism and the Police State.
Article: "Where there is Oppression, there will be Resistance" “This ‘historic alliance’ of the Movement for Black Lives with the oppressed abroad goes back to their 2016 founding document, which then characterized Israel as an ‘apartheid’ state, condemned US backing for the settler ’genocide’ against Palestinians, and supported the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement against Israel. Linking Home and Abroad” -Popular Resistance quote with permission
Video (5 minutes): Slavery to Mass Incarceration The myth of racial difference created to sustain American slavery persists today. Slavery did not end in 1865, it evolved.
Video Documentary (100 minutes): 13th This Oscar-nominated film won Best Documentary at the Emmys, the BAFTAs, and the NAACP Image Awards. The title of the documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” 13th looks from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry. Includes clips from activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men
Here are hashtags used on both the WILPF US Facebook & Twitter accounts on Juneteenth 2020:
#StandUp4HumanRights
#FIGHTracism
#JoinTogether
#BlackLivesMatter
#M4BL
#CommunitiesWorkingTowardRacialJustice
#AHR #AdvancingHumanRights
#WhiteRage
#RacialJustice
#SocialJustice
#BlackAgendaReport
#BlackAllianceforPeace
#EqualJusticeInitiative
#Reparations #ReparationsNow!
#UHURU #UHURUSolidarityMovement
#SayTheirNames
#GeorgeFloyd #TrayvonMartin #TamirRice, #MichaelBrown #FreddieGrey #WalterScott #EricGarner #EzellFord #SandraBland #JohnCrawfordIII #AltonSterling #PhilandoCastile #BreonnaTaylor #EmmettTill #FredHampton
#AndCountlessOthers...
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