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DESCRIPTION:Standing With Black Lives Matter \n\nSaturday, June 06, 2020 at 5 PM PT (8 
 PM ET)\n\nTonight, we will be in conversation with panel discussion with 
 experts, activists, \nand community leaders answering questions and 
 discussing the significance of the \nBlack Lives Matter movement. 
 \n\nSpecial guest speakers featured include:\n\n--Shanequa Charles, Human 
 Rights/Criminal Justice Activist\n--Sammie Paul, Education Advocate & 
 Student Organizer\n--Tahese Warley, Elementary Public School 
 Educator\n--Agunda Okeyo, Writer, Producer, Activist\n--Samelys Lopez, 
 Congressional Candidate for NY-15 (The Bronx)\n--Shahid Buttar, Candidate 
 for California's 12th Congressional District\n\nAs we move forward in these 
 next couple of weeks, it’s important for those in our movement \nto 
 realize is that our fight is intersectional and interconnected in every 
 aspect:\n\n    We cannot address the Green New Deal and global climate 
 crisis without environmental racism. A majority of inhabitants living near 
 hazardous waste or redlined communities are predominantly people of color 
 — with environmental causes that pollute air, poison water, \nand 
 dilapidated homes, affecting far more black people than others. \n\n    We 
 cannot address Medicare for All without considering racism and implicit 
 bias in the medical community, nor the lack of access to quality 
 healthcare. There exists an overwhelming health disparity within black and 
 brown communities — Black Americans currently dying of Covid-19 at three 
 times the rate of others. \n\n    We cannot address Student Debt 
 Cancellation without addressing reforms needed in public education and the 
 pervasiveness of the school to prison pipeline disproportionately affecting 
 Black and Brown youth — to the debilitating debt sentence preventing 
 generations from attaining social mobility and access to resources. \n\n    
 We cannot address the End to Wars both abroad and home without addressing 
 America’s intrinsic role in upholding the institutional structures of 
 racism — the militarization of state-sponsored violence and condemnation 
 through policing and policy, resulting in the deaths of countless innocent 
 Black lives and livelihoods, and exactly why we are on the streets today. 
 \n\nWe stand in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter because it's absolutely 
 necessary in order for us to progress forward — our history is tainted by 
 injustices done on Black and Brown lives that continue to encroach 
 pervasively into our modern day, and justice is long overdue.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833869.php
SUMMARY:Standing With Black Lives Matter Livestream Panel (Once Again Pac)
LOCATION:Online livestream: https://www.facebook.com/onceagainpac/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/06/18833869.php
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