Advancing the Legacy MLK, Today
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. -- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
My name is Janaya Khan and I recently joined the Color Of Change team because I believe in my deepest heart that to fight for justice is to be on the right side of history. With Color Of Change, I am a part of a courageous team of people dedicated to honoring the legacy of Dr. King, and so are you.
We know that the work of racial justice is a marathon; Dr. King committed his life to a cause greater than himself and now the baton has been passed on to a new generation of freedom fighters that need our help.
We too believe that anyone can be great, and together we can fight to defend the freedom fighters of today who feel the same call to action that Dr. King and his fellows did all those years ago. Every single win that Black people have had in this country has been hard fought against a system more interested in maintaining the status quo than justice.
Today, activists are still fighting for the dignity of Black people because they know in their bones that Black people deserve better than racist policies, police brutality and criminalization. This act of service makes them great, but it also makes them vulnerable. Police and law enforcement agencies like the FBI use technological advancements and access to data to attack activism by tracking, surveilling and profiling activists.
We at Color Of Change intend to protect the heroes of today. Together, we want to build the tech, tools, and information they need to identify the current threats to protest, and their freedoms, under a bigoted and hateful administration.
Our goal of $15,000 to keep organizers safe would:
- Build a website that houses toolkits on protection, know your rights, and other needed resources online
- Enable real-time trainings that teach organizers how to use digital security to protect themselves and keep each other safe
- Support convenings on digital defense that brings people together from across the country to talk about work they are doing around surveillance
Until justice is real,
-- Janaya, Brandi, Rashad, Arisha, Jade, Evan, Angela, Johnny, Corina, Chad, Mary, Saréya, Eesha, and the rest of the Color Of Change team
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