[Lekooks] BLM Learn & Take Action May #2

[Ginger G]

Black Lives Matter -- Learn & Take Action for May 2021 #2
LEARN –This stunning report  <https://policeviolencereport.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwp86EBhD7ARIsAFkgakiLUAhcQaNk1pAJ8aEhfUzSVm6EOIHHFTCMT7BKILfarzDQPNRVh8waAvGUEALw_wcB>shows you graphically the police danger to Black lives. (You may have missed it in the last BLM L&TA – it is worth repeating the link.)

Police are taught that traffic stops are potentially lethal but they’re not – the estimated odds <https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/04/daunte-wright-dangerous-traffic-stop-myth.html> for a police officer to be killed during a traffic stop is 1 in every 6.5 million stops. Traffic stops <https://theappeal.org/traffic-enforcement-without-police/> can be done differently. In contrast, one in 1,000 Black men will be killed by police <https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793>.

TAKE ACTION – Join SURJ <https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/> (Showing Up for Racial Justice). There is a local affiliate all over the USA. SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and to work for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.

Ginger Goral, Social Justice committee, Lake Country Unitarian Universalist Church, lcuuc.org <http://lcuuc.org/>
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