Dress in black, grab your bike and join the Ride for Justice noon Thursday at 23rd Ave S and the I-90 Trail. The ride will end at Cal Anderson Park.
Details from event organizers Estelita’s Library, a non-profit “justice focused community bookstore and library” on Beacon Hill:
You think we’re stopping – Nope!!
For those in Seattle. Estelita’s Library – Justice Focused Community Bookstore &…and our community are organizing a Bike For Justice Protest. We will not stand for the injustices we see — we are bringing every community we are a part of out to the streets until change happens!
Thursday at 12pm.
Meeting at the 23rd Ave S & I-90 Trail and take to the streets to ride to Cal Anderson Park! Wear Black!
Help with supplies, donate: http://bit.ly/2BJcHvL
Share far and wide!What: Protest by cyclists throughout Seattle to demand justice for the police violence of Black folks, indigenous folks, and POC
When: Thursday 12PM June 11, 2020
Meeting Place: Grassy Area @ 23rd Ave S & I-90 Trail riding to Cal Anderson Park
What to Bring: Your bike (road, mountain, BMX, any other) & wear black!
Organizer Edwin Lindo expanded on the demands of the ride in a post:
Declare Racism and Police Violence a Public Health Emergency!
end policing that is violent against Marginalized populations, Particularly our black communities (e.g., racial profiling, stop and frisk, gang injunctions, criminalization of houselessness)
Redirect funds from law enforcement agencies to community-based programs for harm prevention, intervention, and transformative justice
Stop and reverse militarization of law enforcement
Eliminate legislative and union contract provisions that shield the police from accountability
Declare records of all investigations of law enforcement brutality with associated materials as public property and ensure public accessibility
Immediately end the violence against protestors. We stand in solidarity with them!
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Thanks for posting this, Tom !