The Movement for Black Lives is underway. A collective of over 50 organizations representing thousands of Black people from across the country, have come together to form this initiative to make change for the black community.
The demands of this Black Lives Matter initiative are as follows:
1) End The War On Black People
2) Reparations
3) Invest-Divest [Investing in education, health and safety rather than criminalizing, caging]
4) Economic Justice
5) Community Control
6) Political Power
BLM also created a list of “key solutions” including more than 40 policy recommendations such as demilitarizing law enforcement, unionizing unregulated industries, and decriminalizing drugs.
Thenjiwe McHarris, a member of M4BL Policy Table Leadership team, told Fusion:
“The heart of what the movement is, is people and organizations across country coming together and becoming a united front for the purposes of co-creating a vision for black lives,” McHarris said. And while McHarris acknowledges that the movement for black lives has largely been non-hierarchical, she says that “it’s not a leaderless movement, it’s a leaderful movement.”
The time for change has been way overdue.
