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DESCRIPTION:The People’s Life Fund, a group of Northern California tax resisters, 
 will grant $12,000 of re-directed tax money at a public meeting to 
 community based groups and individuals leading the movement for racial 
 justice and divesting from police violence, as well as those addressing the 
 COVID crisis through powerful mutual aid projects.\n\nThe Fund will make 
 these grants on July 15 from 5-6 p.m. PDT in a public online granting 
 session that will include representatives from the groups and members of 
 the People’s Life Fund (PLF). (see below for list of 
 recipients)\n\n“The recent massive protests call all of us to take 
 concrete actions to redirect resources away from racist and armed 
 institutions, into Black-led efforts that begin to repair damage to 
 communities of color. Investing resisted war taxes in these projects is a 
 step in that direction,” said PLF member John Lindsay-Poland.\n\nThis 
 event will complement war tax resistance protest campaigns organized across 
 the United States—from San Diego to Manhattan—on or near Wednesday, 
 July 15.  All protests call for an end to endless war on people of color 
 both inside and beyond the borders of the United States. Plans include 
 traditional protests at post offices and street corners, joining with Black 
 Lives Matters protests to defund racist mechanisms of so-called security, 
 and making their presence felt online by posting the call: “Don’t Pay 
 for War!”\n\nIn 1971, war tax resisters in the San Francisco Bay Area 
 formed the People’s Life Fund (PLF). Each April 15, the PLF makes grants 
 to community organizations. Since 2010, PLF has made grants totaling 
 $270,000 to organizations working for peace, social justice, and a 
 sustainable environment. This past April, PLF members redirected $21,850 in 
 resisted war taxes to eleven local social justice organizations that fill 
 human service needs unmet by government agencies and programs.\n\n[LIST OF 
 ORGS AND INDIVIDUALS]\nConfirmed Grant Recipients Include:\nBlack 
 Organizing Project\nHOMIES Empowerment Project FREEdom Store\nOakland 
 Communities United for Equity & Justice - Food & Hygiene Distribution\nFeed 
 the People - Hotels Not Graves Fund\nAnti-Police Terror Project\nJerralynn 
 Brown Blueford, mother of Alan Blueford, killed by OPD\nMaria Moore, sister 
 of Kayla Moore, killed by BPD\nEncampment for Citizenship\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/14/18835103.php
SUMMARY:NorCal War Tax Resisters Grant $$$ for COVID Crisis & Racial Justice Groups
LOCATION:ZOOM Meeting ID: 886 9702 3906, Password: 421632
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/14/18835103.php
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