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BLACK LIVES MATTER – Action Not Patience
Black Lives Matter. The suffering inflicted by COVID-19 falls disproportionately on black and brown people due to a much more sinister pandemic—the centuries long plague of systemic racism that killed Mr. Rayshard Brooks, Mr. George Floyd, Ms. Breonna Taylor, Mr. Ahmaud Arbery and millions of other black persons — and inflicts indelible sorrow and persistent subjugation. Born from, spread and sustained by privileged white society, there is no vaccine, no antigen for racism and privilege. There is only acceptance of responsibility, active opposition and concession of ill-gotten power and resources by the perpetrators, beneficiaries, and complicit. Read our full statement here.
The Public Interest Law Project (PILP) provides crucial litigation and advocacy support to local legal services and public interest law programs throughout California. Our work brings affordable housing to lower income families and homeless people, provides access to services and … Read more
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PILP and all our colleague social justice organizations must look inward and must act. We must proclaim that aspirational pleas to dismantle segregation “root and branch” and to move towards equity and justice “with all deliberate speed” mean nothing without immediate, concerted and sustained action that includes consideration of unconscious bias when making any decision. Read our full statement here.
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