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If You Missed Your Local Protest, Here Are 4 Easy Actions To Take To Show Your Support For The Black Lives Movement

Don't worry, you can still show your support.

Rameama

May 31, 2020

The State University of New York at Stony Brook

If You Missed Your Local Protest, Here Are 4 Easy Actions To Take To Show Your Support For The Black Lives Movement

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Like many, I was unable to attend the protest held today in the town next to me, Brentwood. My parents are still very wary of the dangers of COVID-19 and would not let me be around so many people, even if I had my mask on.

As much as I wanted to go outside and show my support, I couldn't, so, here are ways I showed and other people can show their support towards the black lives matter movement:

Donate

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If you currently have the means to, here are a couple of websites you can donate to which can greatly aid the BLM movement:

https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/home

https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/

https://unicornriot.ninja/

https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/

https://www.northstarhealthcollective.org/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd

Sign petitions.

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It only takes about 10 seconds to sign one, here are a couple of links:

Raise the Degree- change.org

Justice for George Floyd- change.org

Justice for Breonna Taylor- sign.moveon.org

Mandatory Life Sentence for Police Brutality- change.org

Text

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If you can text back your friend, you can do this, here are some numbers:

Text "JUSTICE" to 668366

Text "FLOYD" to 55156

Text "ENOUGH" to 55156

Educate yourself

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Black Lives Matter is a movement, not a trend, so it's up to you to educate yourself and keep yourself up to date to gain a better understanding so you can keep on protecting black lives. Here are some books that are written by Black Activists:

Are Prisons Obsolete? -Angela Y. Davis

Black Feminist Thought- Patricia Hill Collins

To Die for the People- Huey P. Newton

The Wretched of the Earth- Frantz Fanon

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