"Radical Youth Organizing Space"- Pre-Conference Convening @ JusticeNOW2020
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About this event
URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity will hold space for young, Southern organizers to come together to do some healing justice work, build cross-community solidarity, and envision our liberated futures together.
This pre-conference convening is being held virtually at SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW's #JusticeNOW2020 Conference! For more information about the entire conference please visit www.justicenowcon.com.
Interested in attending the full conference? Stop now and register at www.justicenowcon.com! If you register as "all-access individual" or "all access group," your registration fee will cover this pre-conference fee (see the different ticket descriptions for which registration level covers pre-conferences!).
If you have already registered in the above tiers please visit www.justicenowcon.com/pre-conferences for more information on how to access this pre-conference for free.
Full conference attendance is not required to attend a pre-conference, but we highly suggest it!
Organizer SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW
Organizer of "Radical Youth Organizing Space"- Pre-Conference Convening @ JusticeNOW2020
#BlackLivesMatter was birthed in an "Open Love Letter to Black People," written by Oakland-based community activist Alicia Garza in July 2013 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman; the self-proclaimed neighborhood watchman who murdered unarmed teenager, #TrayvonMartin. Garza ended her Facebook post with the benediction, "Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter.”
Fellow activist Patrisse Cullors amended the last three words to create a hashtag: #BlackLivesMatter, which the two began to promote vigorously. A new friend, Brooklyn-based immigration-rights organizer Opal Tometi created Facebook and Twitter pages to connect other like-minded activists... and a movement was born.
We are unapologetically Black in our positioning, and committed to collectively, lovingly and courageously working for freedom and justice for all Black people (and by extension all people) regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender expression, economic or educational status, ability or disability, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, immigration or incarceration status or location.
