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IN MEMORY OF MICHAEL BROWN...
UNARMED CIVILIAN IN FERGUSON, MISSOURI
UPDATE:
With your help, we have launched a Kickstarter campaign to print at least 500* UNARMED CIVILIAN t-shirts to bring to Ferguson, Missouri, which we will distribute publicly in an act of solidarity. We will document this action, share the footage and amplify the voices of the people we meet in Ferguson through our social networks.
We are reporting back to you so soon because in less than five days of the campaign, people have responded with a sense of immediacy to quickly raise $2,695 of $5,500, our stated goal...
we are nearly half-way there.
The monetary success is only one way by which this campaign is measured, it is the means to an end.
We also want you to know that the
UNARMED CIVILIAN IN FERGUSON campaign is spreading locally, nationally and internationally. Just today, the campaign text was translated into French and sent out by an activist in Belgium through her social network. We are reaching out through our personal networks and beyond -- this is a very important measure of how the message of UNARMED CIVILIAN IN FERGUSON is resonating throughout many diverse civil communities.
We are hopeful that we can reach our goal with your great support. At this pace, we realize we may even go beyond our stated monetary goal. Our commitment is to rise to the occasion of your support. WE COMMIT TO PRINT AS MANY UNARMED CIVILIAN SHIRTS as you afford us the ability to print, and we will distribute each and every one in an act of solidarity.
Let us keep up the trend and spread this campaign far and wide.
Thank you with heartfelt connection to all your support...
If you can take the time
please send this email out.
We wear UNARMED CIVILIAN to raise people's consciousness about the present threat of highly-armed security forces in our communities and to urge open discussion about the harm committed, against all our humanity, when people like Michael Brown are gunned down in cold blood, in broad daylight, in our neighborhoods, by a high-tech, militarized, local police force, acting with impunity.
We wear UNARMED CIVILIAN to call out the injustice of excessive violence so often perpetrated against people of color by uniformed police forces.
We wear UNARMED CIVILIAN to illustrate, boldly in black and white, our deep solidarity with those at greatest risk, who are losing their precious lives.
It is impossible to remain silent.
Click here to join the campaign:
Photo credit Mickey Z.
*If we raise more then $5,500, we will dedicate all additional funds to printing more UNARMED CIVILIAN t-shirts to bring to Ferguson, Missouri and beyond. With your help, we will continue to spread this campaign far and wide.
Top photo credit Jennifer Messina
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