Jun 212020
The below post by Miss Dennis Queen of Manchester DPAC is copied from DPAC’s Facebook page:
Please share this call out to all members of a local disabled people’s organisation (DPO), or network:
Ask your group to support local Black Lives Matter (BLM) groups, or related activism orgs. If you don’t already have these links, it’s time to forge them.
Here are some ideas of how, but I bet you can think of more, some of these can also be done as an individual:
Many of us can’t show up to protests the way we usually would – if you can, do, but many other ideas follow are below;
If you’re a protesting cell like Manchester DPAC, you can offer protest access ideas if they are welcome – eg slow down marches, have a shared static start and end point, get a BSL interpreter, have a mental well being buddy system, etc;
Donate unspent free funds to your BLM cell, or a local org – e.g. here we’ve also got Northern Police Monitoring Project and Kids of Colour (List follows) ;
Offer resources you can share such as printing (or paper, or ink), Braille, large print formats, phone calls and so on;
Pay for something – eg a pair of British Sign Language interpreters for a rally, bottles of water, anything;
Ask your group to share links to action notices, solidarity funds, legal funds and projects we can join in other ways – and don’t keep sharing traumatic links to brutality.
List new ideas below please! And share this!
Then – Tell us what you’re doing to give other groups ideas.
The world is moving forwards and we need to join in with breaking down white supremacy, first by directly supporting urgent current activism – and then by locating and dismantling it within our organisations.
Start talking about how to move from discussing ‘involvement’ of people of colour, to how we share management and control
I’m white and since age 13 in 1980s very often for decades the police were corrupt assault wrongfully arrest harass, even armed police once , fabricating finger print forms , perjury, many many things , seen much worse treatment to kids and whites so how does that pan out ??????