Black Lives Matter: Where and How You Can Contribute
This week has been the culmination of an incredibly tense ongoing political situation between the American state and its Black community. A situation that has boiled over as systemic and outward expressions of oppressive violence have reached a global audience through visual media. As people watching from the outside in, we sometimes wonder how we can affect change from our geographical and positional distance.
One idea we discussed with our team was showing commitment to supporting the Black community through tangible and ongoing actions. Not only must we stand with the Black community vocally, but we must put out tangible efforts to solidify our position as allies, especially at this time when our allyship is needed the most.
Below is a comprehensive list of resources where you can educate, donate and commit to affective action. However you may use your privilege, please consider that real lives are at stake, and it is only through collective efforts to enact social and institutional change that we may live in a future free from oppression and discrimination in all forms.
Donate:
- Black Lives Matter Vancouver
- Black in BC Mutual aid
- Battered Women Support Services
- Black Health Alliance
- Black Youth Helpline
- Hogan's Alley
- Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet
- Ottowa Bail Funds
- Toronto Bail Funds
- Unist'ot'en 2020 Legal Fund
- Vancouver Black Therapy & Advocacy Fund
Resources:
- Aboriginal Front Door Society
- Black Legal Action
- Carnegie Community Action Project 加麗基社區行動計劃
- Defund VPD Campaign Info
- Defund VPD Email Template
- Hogan's Alley
- Petition For Regis Korchinski-Paquet
- The SRO Collaborative
- Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society
Educate:
- 13th Documentary - Dir. Ava DuVernay
- Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?
- Black Strathcona Youtube Channel
- Black History Month Library
- Black's Brittanica Prod. Musindo Mwinyipembe and David Koff
- I'm An Adult, Now What? - Ep: 30 A Discussion of Black Lives with Jamila Pomeroy - Hosted by Jade Pattenden
- In Defence of Looting
- Jane Elliott - Brown Eye Blue Eye
- Paris is Burning - Dir. Jennie Livingston
- Secret Vancouver: Return to Hogan's Alley
- The Color of Fear - Dir. Lee Mun Wah
- Teach Us All - Dir. Sonia Lowman
International Resources:
- Ally Wiki
- Black Visions Collective
- Black Lives Matters Carrd
- National Resource List #GeorgeFloyd
- National Bail Funds
- Petition for Breonna Taylor
- Petition for George Floyd
- Petition for Tony Mcdade
- Reclaim the Block
- Fantasy World Master List of Resources on How to Dismantle Systemic Racism
Updated - 06-05-20