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Art is one way of protest and activism. There are many other ways to fight against systemic issues and challenge social norms.

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If you are looking for other ways to help, check out the list below. 

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Protests:

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• Know your protesters’ rights via ACLU

• Protester Safety: what to bring and what to do if you get arrested

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Bail Funds:

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Double-check to make sure funds are still accepting donations, many are diverting attention to other fundraisers.

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• Emergency Release Fund for Trans People In NYC

Minnesota Freedom Fund

Brooklyn Bail Fund ​

•         Reclaim the Block has posted an updated list of worthy orgs

•        A list of bail funds for protesters in cities across the country

•     Split a donation to dozens of community bail funds at once with this page​

• BYP100

• COVID Bail Out NYC.

• Bronx Freedom Fund

• LGBTQ Freedom Fund Bail Out 

• The Bail Project

• National Bail Out

Initiatives:

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• Black Lives Matter

• Vetted list of donations for frontline youth

• NAACP Empowerment Programs

• Justice for Regis Korchinski Paquet

• Justice for Dion Johnson

• Justice for Breonna Taylor​

• Campaign Zero

• Communities United Against Police Brutality

• Homeless black trans women fund

Minority-owned Businesses:

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• Minority-owned businesses hit hard from protests in Minneapolis fund

• New York’s black-owned restaurants that could use our support right now

• List of black-owned businesses to support

• Thread of small black businesses destroyed by protests with GoFundMe links

• Black-owned business relief fund for various cities that have been affected by the protests

• Buy Black Atlanta: help brown & black businesses damaged by the protests

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Petitions:

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• BLM #DefundThePolice Petition

• Raise The Degree – Change.org 

• Mandatory Life Sentence for Police Brutality – Change.org

• Sign the Tallahassee Dream Defenders’ Petition for Tony McDade

• Text “JUSTICE” to 668366 to sign MoveOn’s petition for George Floyd or sign here

• Sign Color of Change’s Petition for George Floyd

• Text “ENOUGH” to 55156 or sign this petition to demand justice for Breonna Taylor

• Hand’s Up Act to punish police for shooting unarmed citizens

• NAACP #WeAreDoneDying Petition

• Justice for Belly Mujinga

• Justice for João Pedro

• Sign the Movement for Black Lives’ petition to push elected officials to fight against the militarization in communities of color

• Use this template to contact your representative and push them to consider changing police training to decrease police brutality

• Email NYC Mayor de Blasio here

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