Bailey Nichols is a businessperson in Oakland, CA, and my friend. She posted this very practical suggestion on her Facebook page, and I asked if I could repost it here. It’s important that we let our public servants know when we taxpayers and voters are not satisfied with the behavior of the police or any other public servant who represents us. Fussing on social media (or in a blog!) is well and good but it is not action. I’m planning to take Bailey’s suggestion and I hope that my U.S. readers will do so as well.
Oakland’s Citizens’ Police Review Board meets twice a month.
The Mayor of Baton Rouge (the city where Alton Sterling was murdered) is Kip Holden.
(222) 389-5100 mayor@brgov.com
Baton Rouge city council contact info https://brgov.com/dept/council/
The Mayor of Falcon Heights (the city where Philandro Castile was murdered) is Peter Lindstrom (651) 917-2977 mayorlindstrom@gmail.com
Falcon Heights city government contact info can be found here
http://www.falconheights.org/index.asp…
These are just 2 names out of countless others. Behind every person of color murdered by the police there is a network of city, county, and national officials who are sitting idly by, allowing Americans to be killed (by the force employed by the community to protect them) because of the color of their skin. They allow this to happen because of their own racism or complete apathy to the plight of their non-white constituents.
Pick a name, pick a city, let them know that racism is real and unacceptable, apathy is culpability, black lives matter and the whole world is watching.
Thank you for this and thank you to Bailey. There comes a tipping point when you just can’t grieve, you HAVE to act.
Bailey’s idea is wonderful. It is not only speaking out about human abuse, but it is also taking action. One without the other is not enough. I applaud all who do both.
As the people open their eyes ” In an effort to find a solution to Europe’s migration crisis, Russia’s Federal Center for Tolerance has teamed up with UNESCO, campaigning to bring up a “new generation” of children and teachers “free from racial, ethnic and religious stereotypes.”
Acting with the support of the Russian Federation of Jewish Communities at Moscow’s Jewish Museum, Russia’s Federal Center for Tolerance and UNESCO held their first joint conference on migration earlier this week.”