Dear friends,
We are pleased to let you know that in twelve days the UNARMED CIVILIAN in Ferguson Campaign, as of this writing, has gone beyond our fundraising goal, raising $5,540. We have seventeen days remaining to continue building this grassroots effort. As we have previously declared, our commitment is to rise to the occasion of your support. WE COMMIT TO PRINT AS MANY UNARMED CIVILIAN T-SHIRTS AS YOU AFFORD US THE ABILITY TO PRINT, and we will distribute each and every one in an act of solidarity.
We are preparing to place the order for the first
500 UNARMED CIVILIAN t-shirts and planning for our travels to Ferguson, Missouri. We will keep you posted as we proceed.
Yesterday was an especially amazing day because, as the WE WILL NOT BE SILENT project and UNARMED CIVILIAN in Ferguson Campaign was being presented to five middle school classes at the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action in the Bronx, we discovered that the campaign reached its initial monetary goal. This occurred immediately after the students watched our Kickstarter video. All the students broke out in loud cheers expressing their solidarity and personal investment in seeing this effort succeed. These young people know first-hand how the militarization of local police forces are a direct form of oppression and present a grave danger in their lives and in their community. Many of the students related to the power of the UNARMED CIVILIAN in Ferguson Campaign. We are committed to make sure each person who wanted an UNARMED CIVILIAN t-shirt to wear will be able to receive one. Until then, we provided the students with hand-printed UNARMED CIVILIAN patches, which they immediately pinned to their bodies. At the end of the day, they sent us away with 100 hand-written signs to carry their words from the Bronx, New York to Ferguson, Missouri in unity with the people there, who we are soon to meet.
On behalf of the people of Ferguson, in memory of Michael Brown and in solidarity with the students we met yesterday, we are asking that you help us continue to raise the visibility of the UNARMED CIVILIAN in Ferguson Campaign.
Dare to dream... police brutality, against militarism and, at the core of it all, against racism. Take the time... please send out this email and if you can make a donation. We will show the people of Ferguson that we stand with the many who stand with them.
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